@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com dark irony in the fact one diminutive of Ignatius is trying to chase another dim of Ignatius from America. Nacho is dim of the Spanish version of that name, and the dim of the German version is Nazi. Used like "Bubba" for Redneck as pun on an NSDAP abbreviation

@jesszafarris.com Ok so, seeing your Otherwords short cameo on YT makes me want to ask: are salutations interjections? Is "Hello" one? "Welcome"? And on that subject is there any way to make people stop saying "welcome in"? I HATE it when they do that.

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.bsky.social Woyldnt the "Bordeaux"/"York" reinterpretation of names just be a type of eggcorn? (Makes me think of the Middle Earth river Bar-Anduin/Brandywine)

I was surprised @jesszafarris.com ended that last #wordsunravelled video saying "and then in the future" without @robwords.bsky.social nudging "you mean 'in future'" — it was right there.

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.bsky.social no one in America would say "knock up a bookcase" perhaps, but one person would say "knock up a sofa". Unfortunately that's the vice president.

TFW you realise you've had Breen action figures since 1980. O.o #startrek #discovery

@robwords.bsky.social oh damn. Don't be sponsored by betterhelp. In 2024, BetterHelp was cited by the Federal Trade Commission for inappropriate use and selling of client data, breaching privacy regulations. BetterHelp has since been under scrutiny for misleading privacy policies.

@robwords.bsky.social "Names don't really mean anything unless you're something like Hope or Hunter" — said by a man who goes by a syllable that means "to force someone to give you stuff under threat of violence"

This is why I only ever do Bonnie Tyler.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.com this last video made me think of times I have run karaoke and the amusing stuff white singers will do when doing gangsta rap and realising that word is coming up. Skipping it, saying bro, going "nyaaaah". One regular just said "honky" instead.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.com "Unalive" to me sounds like it should mean "in a coma". If "dead" is the opposite of "alive", and "undead" means "dead but still moves around like alive, then "unalive" should mean "alive, but fails to move around, as if dead."

Who wore it best? George Hamilton of course. Fuck Pete "Douchebro" Hegseth.

Hegseth on the BSA: "DEI crept in, the focus on god as the ruler of the universe was watered down to include openness to humanism and Earth-centred pagan religions. They even welcomed the destructive myth of gender fluidity and transgenderism to infiltrate their membership" A Literal witch hunt.

If they don't want to be woke, I'll be happy to help and put them to sleep. I just have to get some stuff from the veterinarian's office first.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.com only partway through so fogive me if you address this later in the vid but we do also have Aldi Nord in the US. It's just called "Trader Joes". I miss it but I'm currently boycotting because they've been union busting.

To Marko Rubio: you know that paranoid feeling you get on coke where you think "everybody knows I'm spun"? It was accurate. Listen to it

Sometimes I catch myself seeing things in Cyrillic and trying to work through reading the letters somehow completely forgetting that I don't actually know any languages written in it.

To whomever needs to hear it: The phrase is "spill the BEANS". Not the fucking tea. (And stop saying "welcome in", it's just "welcome")

Don't say MAGA is like the Nazis. Don't say MAGA is like the Stalinists. Don't say MAGA is like Pol Pot. It's all of those things and yet less, laced with the unique elements that makes America the tackiest nation that has ever been.

Every time I see Trump call people "deranged" for disagreeing with him, or claim there's a "derangement syndrome" that explains opposition to him, I think of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic... Please make it go viral so people realise the playbook he uses is from the worst period of the USSR.

trying to think up a couple name for rfkjr and kid Rock. the happy gross "workout lich" couple deserve a "Bennifer", "Brangelina" type name. maybe "Kidneyrock Junior"? they do cause stomach cramping and nausea, so it fits.

Well howdy there internet people it's a pelican

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social "Sprick" is what Kirk calls his first officer when he's being a jerk.

How to make a realistic D&D setting First overcome the Gygaxian "evil to be evil" crap and rework Menzoberranzan etc into hyper-capitalist hereditary oligarchies where majority are so desperate that morals go out the window to survive where to find an example of that sort of society to work from?🇺🇸

@maklelan.bsky.social I was just watching Stepjen Colbert smack down Mike Johnson for trying to school the Pope on Romans 13, and Colbert said "nobody knows the Bible better than the Pope" and I thought "Actually… I know of a guy" so I was just hoping you'd chime in on this.

Dear critics everywhere: effective immediately, cease and desist using the word "triumph". You have all abused this word to the point of meaninglessness, and as a result you are not allowed to use it anymore until it heals, nor thereafter as you cannot be trusted with it.

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social aww, you did all the big Cali Spanish towns but skipped the crass sounding one to embarrass Rob: Los Banos. Which today translates to (if you correct the n to ñ): The Bathrooms.

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social I was sad that your opening did not include the sentences: Why'd they change it? I can't say. People just liked it better that way."

😢 I have always used em dashes—my friends know I have. Now everybody thinks I'm an AI. Just because my punctuation is better than theirs.

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social Interesting thing about the Pinkertons: they’re not gone. They aren’t just history. They still exist as a branch of Securitas security agency. And yep, they’re still sometimes employed for union busting activities.

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social The fish would be smelt. But hopefully not smelled, especially if left out (or leaved out)

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social it is funny seeing you try to find meaning in names from someone who named characters „Kit Fisto” & „Elan Sleazebaggano“ Obi Wan Kenobi does not mean “Belt Ten Thousand Kick Stretch” alternating between Japanese and Mandarin.

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social Star Wars is sci fi if Babylon 5 is. SW is harder than Trek. Which one has tonnes of gods, rampant interspecies hybrids, shapeshifters, and magic out the wazoo v which has an order of trained psychics with mystical trappings?

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social “Metaverse” came from Neil Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash. It was just a futuristic way to say Cyberspace, like “the matrix” (Shadowrun, not the film, though Doctor Who used it similarly in the 70s!) or “The Net” (Neuromancer) or The Grid (Tron)

@robwords.bsky.social Oh btw: usenet newsgroups. Groups for short.

Dear Universe: When I asked what the real difference between Lawful Evil and Chaotic Evil was, you didn’t have to demonstrate it.

That’s discriminatory against elves though. Just kidding. There are no such things as souls.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social looking forward to watching the new video after work today, only saw the thumbnail so far; but I thought everyone knew “spam” for UCE was from Monty Python. Just another word from those bloody vikings.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social So a differential diagnosis would be etymologically redundant?

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social There’s actually a distinction between an opiate—a drug derived from opium—& an opioid—a drug similar to an opiate. Morphine & codeine are opiates. Heroin, hydrocodone, & oxycodone are opioids derived from opiates. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid.

BlueSky is a progressive space. Luddites don’t belong here. Luddites need to stop trying to co-opt progressive spaces. Pushy anti-AI who don’t like being called Luddites need to look up “Luddite”. And stop complaining about “art theft” whilst using Frank Miller’s actual art without permission.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social “For some reason…” you don’t really think nobody ever found a dinosaur fossil before the 1700s, do you?

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social I’m curious: has anybody studied who, where, and when people divide up contractions differently? Like “it’s not” v “it isn’t” and “I’ve not/I haven’t/I’ve not got/I haven’t got/I don’t have” and so on? It’s a dorky thing I wonder about sometimes.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social @maklelan.bsky.social Regarding the idiom “devil’s advocate”, if I recall my Dan McClellan videos correctly, a satan (not a proper noun) was, in the OT, literally a prosecutor, particularly in the “spiritual judgement” court.

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social I learnt a pig-latin type cant called “gibberish” pronounced with a hard G. You put a sound like „ədəg” between each consonant-vowel pair like so: H’ow d’o y’ou d’o? Where the apostrophes mark where you’re to make that sound. When a kid in the 80s

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.bsky.social I reckon that bum-brusher and flaybottomist weren’t used for schoolmasters because of indecency but because of corporal punishment. I.e. school-sanctified child abuse.

i can't get out of bed today. i have been declared a UNESCO world heritage site

"Fuck you, Rover" Ahh Dollar Tree, Dollar Tree. You bring a little bit of Florida to every state.