Jess Zafarris

My target aesthetic was “semantic mechanic.”

Plus this outfit has the least potential for wardrobe malfunctions.

Well this was very fun.

What was 'Pepsi' originally called? YouTube video by Words Unravelled

66. #yt

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At 0:47:41, @jesszafarris.com says that shopping in other countries feels like stepping into a different reality -- and that is my EXACT feeling!!!

When I went to the UK and all the GM cars had a Vauxhall logo...

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Thank you!!

Thanks for tuning in, Julian!

Thanks Gary!!

And if you’re in Austin but not attending, I’m also doing two talks/signings at local bookstores. Catch me at @reveriebookshop.bsky.social March 10 and BookWoman March 11!

This time tomorrow, I’ll be getting ready to hit the stage at @sxswedu.com 🎉

I’m about to head out to a conference for a week, but I’m commenting here in hopes that I’ll come back to look into this because I have a suspicion, but I don’t know and I’m curious too

a LinkedIn post that says, “absolutely insane the way AI has eaten all of your brains, what the fuck is wrong with you people”

just snapped and posted this on LinkedIn, I couldn’t take it anymore

Thank you, my friend! So pleased you’re enjoying it.

I never thought about this before, from @jesszafarris.com s awesome book Useless Etymology.

HEAVILY, though I didn’t know that until now. I highly recommend it. The Tiffany Aching series is typically billed as being for younger audiences, but in no way did he write down to that audience, except for taking opportunities to cleverly explain unfamiliar terms.

I agree that would be more fun! Nomonym means “name name,” and it would be a hybrid Latin-Greek word (and there are a lot of those, but it’s less typical than two Latin or two Greek roots). The Greek elements of eponym are epi- ("upon/after") + onoma ("name"). So “onomonym” for two Greek bits. 😄

Eponyms! And we do have an episode on this topic (with a few other -nyms), though it was one of our first ever topics, so we may be due for a revisit.

Truly

(I’ve actually only read The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology all the way through though.)

I’m rereading Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men, and as usual, it feels like he wrote it just for me.

“Another and larger part of Tiffany's brain was thinking of the word susurrus.”

“She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to.”

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Next week in Austin:

3 public talks
3 book signings
1 mentor session
4 video recordings

At the same time, a 55-speaker conference that I produced will be happening without me in Orlando

Before I go:
Speak on a virtual panel
NPR interview
podcast recording
3 writing deadlines

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I had only heard about it a few years earlier, and only because I happened to attend a talk that addressed it.

Which is to say, the federal-level push to do so is the most visible and public federally sanctioned effort to erase nonwhite history in a few decades, AND it's also been happening at state and community levels during recent times when we were said to have been making progress on this front.

A few years ago, my mom dug up some historically significant patents, property details, etc. from her grandparents' rural Arkansas property.

She asked the local archive if they were interested; they were, but only because our family is white. They'd been instructed not to accept records from POC.

This red onion has a wee heart at its heart

I would be interested in watching them try because I'm petty like that.

The book in question is How High We Go in the Dark, which has some comedic and science fiction elements to it, but they definitely don’t buffer any of the tragedy