...ever ever get back together?

I suspect a lot of it is just cherry-picking slang just to try and make a manufactured point (I mean, read that headline, it’s tailor made to try and alarmistly claim that we’re defunct as a people). You could open up the book of English slang and find just as many words in English that don’t have direct translations…

George, it is deeply unscientific on your part to draw any conclusions- or imply any can be drawn- about how neurotic the English language appears to be from the single data point “this one dude made a list of 216 words”.

Right. And I just want to mention that this particular song has made my BLACK students feel like they can approach me and inquire. And my few white students, who often feel very put upon, have an inroad into understanding that even though they are “the minority” in their individual situation at school, they are by no…

Vor. Dude. Love ya! But this is just bullshit. And the psychologists are right; I myself have absolutely and unequivocally been struck to the core of my psyche like butterflies over a drop from the first time I ever felt sonder while seeing some unknown kid practice soccer kicks in his driveway as I rode past him on…

Well, if the words for other languages are as mistranslated as the Spanish ones, English has nothing to worry about.

Yeah, but we have “fuck”, whose limitless fuckin’ versatility makes up for the language’s other shortcomings.

Yeah and Schnapsidee is literally “schnapps idea”.

“I wrote myself in, since I’m me and I’m here and I’m writing.”

Maybe I am missing something but why does there HAVE to be a single word to describe some of those things?

Saying a “leisurely stroll” is redundant.

Yeah, that phrase is definitely going into my standard rotation.

I’ve always like the Brazilian Portuguese cafuné: The act of running your fingers lovingly through someone’s hair.

As a Spanish speaker, I miss this one the most:

Or, I don't know...STROLL!!!!

I feel like doing all of these tonight. Hell, it’s Friday, who wants to join me?

You don’t define my manhood, asshole

There are several of these dinosaurs in my department. I bet they’d be members of the “manosphere” if they had a better grasp of how the internet works. Instead they do their harassing in person, complaining about maternity leave, waxing nostalgic for what the department used to be like (before 2011 the department was…

I love it when people act like treating each other like human beings is some huge inconvenience that requires a ton of their effort to comply to. Certainly there are issues that require a little knowledge and nuance, but 99% is just "treat other people as human beings." I think it says a lot about these people that…