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Jess Ryan

@ludique-co.bsky.social

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Human version of the hit 2003 handheld game 20Q. Now: Phila., PA 🔔 Soon: Nancy, FR 🇫🇷

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Been seven years since I first read this, on the English language's *completely universal but totally invisible* adjective hierarchy, and I can honestly say I've thought about it most days since.

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you da. Have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And since since comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist."
- Mark Forsyth, quote from The Elements of Eloquence: How to turn the Perfect English Phrase

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 17/12/2024

“Is it okay for a social media platform to be an echo chamber” back in the day we had websites and websites were generally focused on a single topic and if you were into that topic you would visit that website and if you weren’t into that topic you just didn’t go on that website and it was fine

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Aubrey Nagle @aubsn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The popular use of “Easter egg”instead of “foreshadowing” represents the commodification of information via social media engagement, turning what were once common media literacy techniques into “exclusive” knowledge. In this essay I will…

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