It's the day before Festivus, and I'm ready for The Airing of Grievances.
https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/festivus-2025-the-airing-of-grievances

My words of the year for 2025, a list that includes #NoKings, clanker, Labubu, and chaos. https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/words-of-the-year-2025-fritinancy #woty #woty2025

"Is it even possible, linguistically, to 'give an e.l.f.'? Or a fuck?" @Fritinancy reports on a new, swear-adjacent marketing campaign:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/dont-give-a-f/

#swearing #profanity #marketing #fuck #DGAF #cosmetics #branding

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

🗣️💬 D - 2 weeks, and the final programme of the international F-word conference is out!
We can't wait to welcome our guest speakers @jessesheidlower, Tony McEnery and @misterslang along with all participants for 2½ days of discussion of this ULO (Ubiquitous Linguistic Object).

Info & registration:
https://wtf.sciencesconf.org

@linguistics

#linguistics

Word of the week: Vibe coding.
https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-vibe-coding

Word of the week: Clanker. https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-clanker

RIP, Tom Lehrer. In April this year, on Lehrer's 97th birthday, @Fritinancy wrote a tribute to the musician and satirist and his wonderful song "Smut":
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/smut/

#TomLehrer #songs #humour #smut #humor #comedy #etymology #lyrics

Chaos on the beach. Chaos in the White House. Chaos in the supermarket. And “KAOS” on Netflix.
https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-chaos

Need more profanity in your Friday? @Fritinancy has compiled a bunch of swearing-related links on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/sweary-links-27/

#swearing #profanity #language #StrongLanguage

Cursing robots, Romans, racers, and more. @Fritinancy has a new batch of sweary links on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/sweary-links-27/

#swearing #profanity #StrongLanguage #links #language

Venis Parish? Traam? Hugo Van Yalk? Sabre?

I take a close look at the names of "Mountainhead," the new HBO movie about a quartet of overcompensated tech moguls.

https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/the-names-of-mountainhead

"How did smut get so dirty? Simple: It was never clean." But did you know that its filth was originally botanical?

New on the Strong Language blog, @Fritinancy pays tribute to smut and the Tom Lehrer song of that title, now 60 years old: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/smut/

#TomLehrer #music #etymology #smut #PopCulture #songs #StrongLanguage

Could you donate a kidney to a stranger? Would you? Should you?

On empathy, altruism, and a riveting new documentary:
https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/recommendation-confessions-of-a-good

i don't personally recommend this form get flooded with bad faith entries, that would make it hard for staff to use and ruin the whole plan here, which is apparently to have a safe space to turn in your neighbors who teach diversity, equity and inclusion

https://enddei.ed.gov

Berkeley Rep's "Uncle Vanya," with a hilarious and poignant Hugh (Downton Abbey) Bonneville in the title role, is the best live Chekhov production I've seen. Lively, colloquial adaptation by Conor McPherson. Through March 23.

I've written a parody poem for this parody of an administration.
https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/the-new-new-colossus

Doom loop? What doom loop?

My two-day “New Urban Order” walking tour of San Francisco.

https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-downtown

@Kitone Worse than Dracula!

Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/