Suddenly Popular.

August 28, 2014 by 10 Comments

An xkcd of obvious linguistic relevance; since you’ll wonder: lahar. Don’t miss the mouseover text, and just to get it out of the way: I, for one, welcome our new God-Empress overlord. (Hat tip to John Cowan for sending me the link.)

Comments

  1. Y says
    August 28, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    I raise you amplexicaul.

  2. David Eddyshaw says
    August 28, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    I only knew “amplexus” as a Latin word, and had no idea that it had this exciting specialized sense in English. Those crazy amphibian teenagers!

  3. John Cowan says
    August 29, 2014 at 1:02 am

    I first met the word as a teenager, applied to human copulations.

  4. Dmitry Pruss (aka MOCKBA) says
    August 29, 2014 at 1:19 am

    Never knew lahars existed in English too

  5. SFReader says
    August 29, 2014 at 1:48 am

    popularity of rapid hair growth around 2030 reassures me.

    I hate baldness…

  6. Piotr Gąsiorowski says
    August 29, 2014 at 3:39 am

    I have just discovered that we already have lahar in the Polish wordhoard.

    I predict that a few years after drone desertion the most widely advertised products will be dronicides (“ZAPADRONE kills 99% of known UAVs”).

  7. David Marjanović says
    August 29, 2014 at 6:08 am

    I laughed so much at “amplexus”!

  8. Jim says
    August 29, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    “Never knew lahars existed in English too”

    Dmitri, you must not live anywhere near Seattle.

  9. Dmitry Pruss (aka MOCKBA) says
    August 29, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Right, our local doomsday volcano is Yellowstone Caldera. But it’s more about the fact that I’ve read tons on vulcanology – on any Nature / Adventure subject actually – back in the old country. Not much since switching to English.

  10. Trond Engen says
    August 30, 2014 at 7:10 am

    The next comic is about the writing skills of the texting generation.

Speak Your Mind

*