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Today's term of the day: hapax legomenon!

A hapax legomenon is a term that appears exactly once in a given corpus.

Frex, in all the Latin text from classical Rome that's survived to the modern day, the verb "circummingere" appears once, in the form "circumminxit", in Petronius's "Satyricon". "circummingere" means "to urinate around", and is used in the description of a magic spell a werewolf uses to turn his clothes to stone (by pissing in a circle around them) before he goes off to maraud.

I love Cyrillic's multiocular O: ꙮ

Aside from its memetic mutation it's used in exactly one phrase and nothing else: "серафими многоꙮчитїи", "many-eyed seraphim".

*slides into your dms for some deeply intensive 

@vahnj can confirm :)

@TipsyTentacle@witches.town I took a cross-country bus exactly once. My immediate reaction was "wow, this is exactly as miserable as pop culture lead me to believe."

Guy next to me was on his cell phone the entire time.

The fabled avocado toast from that bougie shop 

@vahnj @KawaSeadrake I was just about to ask that too! Adding balsamic vinegar is some serious next-level avocado toast strats.

It has come to my attention that being a soft boy is a bad thing

As a soft boy, I want you to know, I am cuddly, supportive of your emotions AND masculine while channeling femininity. Thanks

Tired: games where you're impressed by how badass the characters are.

Wired: games where you're impressed by how huggable the characters are.

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Also I want very much to give Shae and Jodariel the biggest hugs I can manage.

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I still haven't gotten over how *fun* Pyre is. The core gameplay doesn't have a ton of moving parts but it's just so damn good.

@what@mastodon.social Heh. I'd definitely grant that inconsistent characterization is one of the bigger issues with TNG as a whole.

@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space The worst episode for him is "A Matter of Perspective" (s3). "Up the Long Ladder" (s2) is also pretty bad imo.

@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space Huh, interesting. All of the creepiest stuff from Riker I can think of happened after the beard.

The beard definitely makes him look less punchable, though.

@what@mastodon.social Huh, that's an interesting perspective. Care to elaborate? Is this about an ideal vs. actualized William Riker?

A survey:
Is Commander William T. Riker
-A Cool Dude
-A Creeper
-Both
-Neither
?

@memnus@octodon.social I don't think I mentioned but the theme for the con I went to last weekend was Furry Road.

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