Friday, October 10, 2025

Language Follies 25 (Unfashionable)

Question of the Day (1)


 

By Vanessa Friedman NY Times:


 What is the purpose of women’s fashion?

Answer

To allow us to laugh at affectless stick insects.




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Question of the Day (2)


 Can I Bring Drugs to Your Wedding?”


(New York Magazine)


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Game of the Day (Where’s Weirdo?)




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Numerically Challenged



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Calendrically Challenged



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Fishy Business (Question of the Day #3)


Do you want your Norwegian salmon a product of Germany?



Or produced in Greece?



How about sardines from Poland?



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Help Needed



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Least Likely Statistic of the Day


“Many people have found love on dating apps; 1 in 10 U.S. adults with partners met them through a dating site or app in 2022.”


Washington Post 


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The Omnipotent Whomever


Under that title The New Yorker once upon a time would call out misuses in other publications.


Who’s editing The New Yorker website these days?


As Bernstein noted in a recent Substack, the President’s approach involves “making weird, bespoke deals with whomever happens to show up in the Oval . . .”


John Cassidy, September 29, 2025


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Happy Land 


Yemen means  to the right,” which is where it is if you're standing somewhere in upper Arabia looking south. Herodotus enthusiastically called it God's Land, and the Romans called it Arabia Felix, meaning Happy Arabia.


The New Yorker, Oct. 4 1947


 

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