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Blog, Wiki, Podcast, and Other Collection Words
Sep 29, 2026 · original
A blog is a collection of blog posts. If you say “I read a blog”, I will immediately understand that you read all the posts on that blog. If you say “I published a blog”, I will immediately understand that you created a new blog, or that you published a whole blog with a lot of posts and you don’t plan to publish anything more there. Which, come to think of it, is weird. But that’s the first thing that I’ll think! Several moments later, I’ll recall that I heard many times that people said or wrote “a blog”, but meant “a blog post”, which is kind of wrong, but so common, that it’s not really wrong, but more like “ambiguous”. And in fact, it’s not even ambiguous to most people. But it is to me. To me, it’s ambiguous and confusing. To make it less confusing, you can say “I read a blog post”, “I read a post”, “I published a post”, “I posted to my blog”, etc. I’m quite sure that everyone will
Dyslexia and left-right confusion
Aug 30, 2026 · original
I think that I identified a common misconception about a certain aspect of neurodiversity. Some disclaimers before I continue: Everything in this post is ultra-mega-naïve and I might be wrong! I’m not a psychologist or a neuroscientist! I’m just a guy who has some experiences and notices some things! The online neurodiversity community is mostly awesome, and occasional mistakes don’t make it significantly less awesome! With this out of the way, here’s what I actually wanted to talk about. I heard multiple times from completely unrelated people in online neurodiversity spaces that left-right confusion (LRC) is related to dyslexia, or even caused entirely by dyslexia. I can find things like these mentioned at least four specific times, and I definitely heard it more. I heard things like: “Left and right confusion can be part of dyslexia” “The office is down the hall on the… sorry, I’m dysl
People Speaking – Dictionary
Mar 20, 2026 · original
I’m translating something from Spanish for my wife. I manage to understand most words, but then I get stuck on one. I look it up in the dictionary, and as I do it, I mumble: — “You see? I’m putting in the effort. I’m serious. I’m responsible. When I don’t know a word, I look it up in the dictionary. But I feel like I’m the only person in the world who looks up words in dictionaries. Lots of people ask me what this or that word means, even though it’s an online dictionary that works for them just as it works for me. So why do they ask me?” — “It’s not in their lexicon.” In that moment, the universe collapsed.
Slavic and Cyrillic
Mar 1, 2026 · original
There’s a disturbing trend I’ve been seeing for several years: People speak English and use the words “Slavic” and “Cyrillic” in senses that look very weird to me. First, here are their true senses. “Slavic” refers to two main things: A family of culturally, geographically, and genetically related ethnic groups of Eastern, Central, and Souther Europe: Belarusians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croatians, Czechs, Macedonians, Poles, Russians, Rusyns, Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Ukrainians, and several others. (What are those relations exactly is a topic of endless debates, but most people agree that there are some relations between them.) The family of languages that most people who belong to these ethnic groups, as well as many people of other ethnic groups who live in the same places, speak. “Cyrillic” refers to one thing: it is an alphabet that was developed for the language that was spoken over
Autistic
Feb 20, 2026 · original
I’m autistic. Don’t panic. If you’ve known me for some time, I’m exactly the same person I’ve always been. There’s a wide consensus that people are born this way and remain this way for life. The only difference is that now you and I know that my kind of personality was described by some doctors in some books, and they gave it a name. Stretching after shoveling snow for about five hours in the aftermath of the January 2026 snowstorm in North America. I was formally diagnosed by a doctor of psychology in January 2026, which is also the month I turned forty-six. For a bunch of reasons that are too long for this post, I’ve suspected that this is the name for what I am since at least 2015. I became almost sure about it in the middle of 2025, which is when I also decided to get a formal diagnosis. Some friends to whom I spoke about this ask me what led to this, and I’ll write about it separat
Yak Shaving, part 3: Pari, Zelah, and Wikipedia
Feb 18, 2026 · original
There’s a story behind every Wikipedia edit. This here is just one out of many millions. It starts from an award for LGBT reality TV stars and ends with Biblical Hebrew vowels and a village in Cornwall. Apparently, there’s a thing called “Queerties”, an award given out by the Queerty magazine to LGBT media personalities, and one of the categories is “Reality TV star”. I don’t know who any of these people are—except Pari Kim I don’t follow the LGBT culture very deeply, so I wasn’t familiar with the Queerties before today, but I did watch all the episodes of Love on the Spectrum , and I do follow some of its participants on social media. And one of them, Pari Kim, is a nominee. I wish I could tell you the model name of the locomotive on Pari’s T-shirt, but I’m not nearly as big an expert in MBTA rolling stock as Pari is. Perhaps it’s EMD F40PH , but I’m not certain. I should probably buy m
Politeness
Jan 13, 2026 · original
Tired: “How many languages do you speak?” Wired: “Which four languages do you speak? You lived in three countries, so I assume you know at least three, but I said ‘four’ out of politeness.” This actually happened. I’m a linguist, and when people find out about it, they very often ask how many languages I speak. I hate it, and many other linguists told me the same. Different linguists may explain it differently, but for me, the main I hate it is that I cannot easily answer it with a simple number. “Speak” is a spectrum—I speak some languages perfectly or nearly perfectly (Russian, Hebrew, English); some others I can speak not so perfectly (Catalan, and on a good day maybe Italian, Spanish, and Polish); yet others I fantasize that I speak, but I have almost no practice (Belarusian, French, Portuguese, Esperanto); a few more I can read a bit, but not speak (Ukrainian, Swedish, Arabic, Lithu
Stranger Things and Wiktionary; or Stinger, part 1
Dec 25, 2025 · original
Most people watch Stranger Things because they find it fun. So do I, but I also watch it to learn things about the English language, and to help other people learn those things . Over the course of the show, I ran into words that I didn’t fully understand. I could just go on watching, and it wouldn’t have a significant impact on my general understanding of the plot, but that’s not how I do it. Here, I could guess that “priss” is something negative from the tone and just move on. But I insisted on not just looking it up in Wiktionary, but also improving the entry. I carefully looked up every word that I didn’t understand in Merriam-Webster and in the English Wiktionary. If the word was not in Wiktionary at all, I added a page. If the word was there, but the specific sense in which it is used in the show was not in Wiktionary, I added the sense. And if the word and the sense were there, bu
Sting and Comin’ Home Baby
Dec 20, 2025 · original
Ten Summoner’s Tales is one of Sting’s most popular albums, with hits such as Shape of My Heart , Fields of Gold , It’s Probably Me , and If I Ever Lose My Faith in You . A somewhat less known song from that album is Love is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven) . Because I was a teenager when I got¹ that CD, and it was one of my first, I listened to the whole album many times. I have a pretty good memory for music, so it has been burned into my mind for three decades quite thoroughly. About a year ago, an interesting thing happened. I heard the following song on the radio: It’s Comin’ Home Baby performed by The Fleshtones, released in 2011. I immediately recognized the guitar melody in the beginning as being the same as in Love is Stronger Than Justice , so I thought that Sting would be credited as one of the writers. But he wasn’t. So I explored a bit more and found that Comin’
Done
Dec 18, 2025 · original
I’m enormously excited about the new printed Merriam-Webster dictionary, and perhaps I’ll write a more detailed review of it if I ever find the time, but there’s a serious problem with it, and I want to write about it immediately. The Explanatory Notes give many examples of symbols, abbreviations, and other important things in the entries. Not everyone reads Explanatory Notes in dictionaries, but I do. One of the examples of things to notice is that “A few headwords consist of or include a numeral or symbol”. Examples are “MP3”, “@”, and “dən”. I wondered what “dən” is, so I looked it up in the dictionary itself. It was hard to find it; I expected to see it near “den”, but it was not there. Then I noticed that the word “dən” appears in the Explanatory Notes again as an example for this policy: “Entries whose headwords consist of or include a symbol are alphabetized near the alphanumeric

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