📟🐱 GlitchCat Sunday Post, 08 January 2023
The GlitchCat #SundayPost offers news and updates from our corner of the fediverse to yours.
§ Current Events :—
• cybre.space has switched into read‐only mode, as was the plan for the new year.
• The American Dialect Society has announced the 2022 Word of the Year, and it’s -ussy. A·D·L writes “now everything is either a cat or a cavity”, but of course we all know which of those is the affix’s usual referent.
§ From Our Users :—
• @aescling is playing Pokémon Scarlet and enjoying the poképussy so far (Meowscarada).
• @Satsuma is now in a different time zone, so expect favs from them to come a few hours offset from when they were before.
§ Holidays and Observances :—
• ⏳ 11 January is Carmentalia. This is a Roman festival we know very little about, except that it was celebrated on two dates (the other was 15 January), observed primarily by women (Carmenta was a goddess of childbirth and prophecy), and invoked Postvorta and Antevorta, aspects of Carmenta pertaining to looking back (into the past) and forward (into the future). As a date near the new year, it’s a good opportunity for reflection and resolution; I really couldn’t care less otherwise regarding the original Roman meaning.
some good phrasal template nominees:
• it's the X for me: single out the funny or notable aspect of something
• X hits different: describe X as meaningfully affecting
“informal woty” nominations (did not win):
• the ick: feeling of disgust about one’s date
• menty b: mental breakdown
a bit offended that “quiet quitting” won “most useful” and wasn’t even on the list for “euphemism of the year” (which was “special military operation”)
Sooooo... the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is "-ussy", and I am personally thanked in their primary scholarly reference for "-ussification", a paper called "A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends."
The announcement: https://www.americandialect.org/2022-word-of-the-year-is-ussy
The paper (PDF): https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2018/Dow-2018.pdf
And my citation attached ehehehehe
also pokémon 🤝 star wars
a fairly narrow (but still self‐contradictory) band of core canon which everyone tries to stick to, and an expansive universe of stuff which just kind of riffs on the themes
there is one (1) pushmo fanfiction https://archiveofourown.org/tags/%E5%BC%95%E3%82%AF%E6%8A%BC%E3%82%B9%20%7C%20Hikuosu%20%7C%20Pushmo%20(Video%20Games)/works
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“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
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