"skosh" (as in "move over a skosh") comes from Japanese "sukoshi", both meaning "a little bit"
When people get a little too gung-ho about-
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
This isn't horny, but is exceptionally 'basic Abyssal Hunter combat' and against normal humans, so it warrants posting on the alt instead.
I had a lot of fun experimenting with using italicization and bolding to help convey story events, and makes me wonder if there's more room for that sort of thing to be explored in common media. When have you ever seen that in a book?
Laurentina activates her skill out of necessity, one more time.
Under Tides spoilers.
saw a post somewhere a while ago that said that "white people can't dance" is obviously false given the existence of ballet, tap dance, square dance, figure skating, etc, but the thing it's gesturing at is "typical American/European culture doesn't emphasize improvisational dance" and I think that's closer to the truth
Knuckle tats that say Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.