wzhkevin · @wzhkevin
40 followers · 175 posts · Server digipres.club

I’m listening to an audiobook in which the author refers to “areas that have gone Protestant”. When did the word “go” come to have this transformative meaning? I’ve heard the term “go rogue”, but this tends to strike me as idiomatic.

#SemanticShift #etymology #linguistics

Last updated 2 years ago

Tyler Cohen · @tylerzonia
0 followers · 6 posts · Server comicscamp.club
Tyler Cohen · @tylerzonia
309 followers · 1063 posts · Server zirk.us

Since new people have joined & I have some new followers, I’m re-sharing my most recently published story, , at . A story/consideration/contemplation of shifting language around and advocating for .

muthamagazine.com/2022/10/sema

#comics #SemanticShift #MuthaMagazine #queerness #queeryouth #queer #genz #trans #transparenting #queerparent

Last updated 3 years ago

My recent word interest has been, “research.” I think it’s fascinating that crunchy cult moms watching YouTube videos and clinicians doing peer-reviewed studies both use the same word. I’ve only found this article discussing the but it’s from 2012. pewresearch.org/internet/2012/

#SemanticShift #linguistics #research #language

Last updated 3 years ago

Tyler Cohen · @tylerzonia
141 followers · 409 posts · Server sfba.social
Tim Gent · @tgent_fens
85 followers · 254 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

I was just about to email someone with a 'sketchy plan'. But then remembered my son uses sketchy to mean shady/dodgy (an Americanism?).
Do I now have to avoid sharing sketchy ideas? They could be vague or draft, but in my head they're just sketchy (Brit style)

#sketchyidea #kidsthesedays #slang #SemanticShift

Last updated 3 years ago

Tyler Cohen · @tylerzonia
51 followers · 101 posts · Server sfba.social

New comic up now!
“Semantic Shift”
Comics - Mutha Magazine
"A part of me is envious. Who might I have been?"

muthamagazine.com/2022/10/sema

#comics #transparent #SemanticShift #Mutha #MuthaMagazine

Last updated 3 years ago