Oh wow. I learned “shan’t” from Tintin books and thought it was as “incorrect” as “ain’t.” Of course, I didn’t know at the time that upper-class characters in British novels said “ain’t” all the time.
I’m sure that made a huge impact!
Oh, didn’t think you were arguing! I was just agreeing about the UK/US distinction. I’m not sure Americans *ever* used whilst or amongst very much. Not so much an anachronism as a national distinction.
She’s right. But I’ve started seeing both whilst and amongst showing up as a sort of hypercorrection among young Americans recently. Just a bit.
Ironically, the British have been (rightly) moving towards while and among.
Forgive my carefree use of “ironically.”
Historians are doing that right now too.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Amelia Bedelia, once again you have narrowly escaped unemployment by snatching comedy gold from the laws of incompetence.
If the whole city’s reading it, you’d better comply.
If I didn’t know about LLMs or scams, I’d be torn between “they need to read an actual book—take my money!” and “do not allow actual prose near anyone who uses language like this.” It’s a tough one.
hands down the absolute *strangest* “on background” sourcing I have ever seen in the NYT. Completely bonkers stuff www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
That were a bold declaration.
When I typed “wh” on my iPhone, this came up. What is it and how do I burn it all down? (Not WhatsApp, which is what I was searching for, though I’m fine with losing that if I have to.)
Daily Mirror 5 April 1904, possibly the first newspaper in UK to run with photo(s) on its cover, played it safe with Easter pics from Hampstead Heath, including a water-balloon seller
Watching an animated figure ice skate is not the same as seeing someone expressing their lives at speed over hard ice with the very really possibility of falling. History, culture, and the communal act of meaning making simply don’t happen in disembodied mechanistic reproduction.
Eric
Damn. What a good way to phrase it.
If I can contribute to hip-hop studies in this one small way, I feel I have made a real achievement.
Yeah, I can see that—and hardly a brilliant line. I was reading it (as I copy-pasted, focusing on it for the first time) as solidarity with redlined Black loan-seekers. But yeah.
Thanks! Such a good song.
“Well I'm a funky-ass Jew and I'm on my way
And yes I got to say fuck the KKK”
“I went to get a loan and they asked my race
I wrote down "HUMAN" inside the space
It's a disgrace how they try to debase
It ain't the bank's damn business how my lineage trace”
I think I’m serious! “It's too far gone.
We gotta work together it's been too long.”
(That song is about reviving the Black-Jewish political alliance, right?)
RIGHT
NOW
WHAT IS GOING ON
They all fly at dusk.
Is this like Handsome Dan?
“That is, entirely generated based on my artisanal, hand-crafted human social media posts and thoughts on the topic. So who wrote it, really? You tell me.” He wrote it. He’s welcome to it.
dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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