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Bikeshedding aka the Law of Triviality

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 6, 2025June 30, 2025

This really spoke to me. I never seen such epic discussions at the workplaces I…

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Epicaricacy

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 24, 2025April 21, 2025

Swedish has a word, skadeglädje, which means the same as the German schadenfreude.  English also…

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Niche words

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 9, 2025April 8, 2025

This is an updated post with a few more niche/jokey words: situationship/insignificant other – to…

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Clever names

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 1, 2025March 24, 2025

Words have always fascinated me. Take a table, for example. Someone must have looked at…

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These things have names?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 6, 2025February 3, 2025

  I generally know some items in this type of list, but there is always…

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New Words – Copium and Genericide

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 17, 2024November 11, 2024

I suggest to novel-reading students that they only look up those words essential for understanding.…

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Words of Wisdom

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 5, 2024October 31, 2024

Or you could just avoid them altogether… Silence is not the absence of something, but…

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The Daily Fail is at it again…can you spot them?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 23, 2024August 18, 2024

The scariest thing is that all of these appeared within a couple of days. I…

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Fiat money and littoral states

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 11, 2024June 4, 2024

I love learning new words from my students. These words are often words used a…

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New words for me – rebracketing, flanderization, Veblen Good, outro, kinkeeping, elephant path

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 25, 2024April 23, 2024
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