My name means 'sane person', which makes everyone who actually knows me double up with laughter....

If you don't base your most intimate relationships on sex, then you're able to reimagine human intimacy in all kinds of new ways.

Demisexuality sounds like a decent explanation as to why I think my friend is attractive, but not his identical twin brother.

Well... if that's the case, then I'm screwed. Figuratively, unfortunately.

Wouldn't the constant killing of Rory explain Amy's weird is/isn't pregnancy thing?

Charlie, I accidentally clicked onto this, started to read, and then remembered that I hadn't watched the episode yet.

Word. 100% agree.

The most ridiculous thing about the Leaning Tower is actually being there, and realising that it's absolutely REAL. I spent about an hour, walking around it and cracking up with laughter.

One of the best decisions I ever made in my life was to go on a student exchange - it opened up a world of things, and still has a positive influence in things like study and work for me, even 16 years later.

When I speak Indonesian, I start to think myself an Indonesian... kinda to the point where it's a bit of a surprise to look at a photo ad realise that I really look different to everyone around me.

But for those of us who would love to stay awake longer, drugs that tinker with this system could perhaps one day allow us to stay awake for years at a time just by carefully shutting down and reawakening a few sleepy neurons every second.

'snake' in Indonesia is 'ular'. It doesn't sound like a snake, but it sounds like the movement of a snake!

Are you familiar with the theory that states that New Zealand and South African English is more 'balanced' than the other Englishes, because those two Englishes have undergone a secondary shift that made all their short vowel move up as well, so they're now properly 'paired' with their appropriate long vowels?…

I personally find one of the most fascinating things about language is how it kind of charts human progression and expansion and development. Let's look at the Austronesian language family - it stretches, basically, from Madagascar to Easter Island - but skips Australia and Europe and continental Asia. Those…

Such a beautiful long article, and no mention of Grimm's Law? It, plus the Great Vowel Shift are two of my most favouritest things ever learnt in Linguistics class. That, plus intervocalic 'r'

The more I reflect upon the episode, the more I realise that astronauts are bloody creepy. Whatever they did to the colour tinting when that astronaut first appears in the lake just hit all my creepout buttons.

I get purrs, and hardcore grooming, but no headbonks. I hope my kitty starts giving headbonks soon. Then again, he's probably withholding headbonks in protest against being taken for walks on a leash, and rides in my bike basket.

Sigh. Do you think they'd let Wilfred smoke bongs like he does here?

Using language like this?

The problem with the WHO isn't that they don't actually have any authority. Sure, it's easy to say that developed nations should give our vaccine, but when countries like Myanmar or Indonesia refuse to supply samples, or countries like China even deny that their is an outbreak, it's hard to coordinate a international…