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Aabria has chemistry with everyone. Just finished episode 63 of critical role campaign 3 and how that didn't just turn into a full orgy, is probably time and space constraints.
Deanna SLAPS. And can absolutely GET IT. Clearly. Was low key shipping Imogen and Deanna. But honestly who couldn't you ship Deanna with?
I also love how hard Aabria and Deanna ship Imaudna. Like. Girl, same.
Like, she's off with Prism and I 100% love that for them. Buahaha.
Pretty sure Aabria has a 20 in CHA IRL.
Also, is Emily teeny? Or is everyone else just so tall?
Gretchen: A lot of people ask me if language is changing faster in the internet era. You get the sense that they really, really want that answer to be yes. They’ll sometimes try to make my answer for that yes even if it’s not what I’m saying. The thing is we just don’t have complete enough records to know that for sure because a lot of the words that become trendy these days may become trendy for a week or so, but that doesn’t mean that they stick around and stay in peoples’ vocabularies. It’s less clear how fast that is happening. Somebody would actually have to do that study. It’s not a study that I’m aware of existing in terms of how fast does the average person’s vocabulary change and how many of the words that are being added in a given year were coined within the last ten years or something like that. It’d be a very complicated study to actually do in practice. It’s hard to say definitively English is changing faster or slower because what do you mean by that change and how long does that change have to persist for you to say it’s a “durable” change versus “This is the trend of the week.”
Lauren: It will hopefully keep future generations of people who make dictionaries very busy.
Gretchen: The good thing is we may be able to answer this question in another 100 years or something because we’ll actually have so much more data of this period.
Excerpt from Lingthusiasm episode ‘Where to get your English etymologies’
Listen to the episode, read the full transcript, or check out more links about the history of language
I knew that I was a small fish in a huge pond, but the vastness of what I didn’t know overpowered me for a moment. I sat there, staring at the wall, aching for a plan.