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Your Kondo post is good, but instead of responding I want to just appreciate "idea(l)s". I'm an absolute sucker for clever...

Anonymous asked: Your Kondo post is good, but instead of responding I want to just appreciate "idea(l)s". I'm an absolute sucker for clever parenthetical grammar, and that's one of my new favorites.

shabbytigers:

thanks, I felt a bit self-indulgent about that tbh but carpe diem

oh man, parenthetical puns, I just realized how much those’ve fallen off since going to college in the early ‘00s when ‘90s deconstruction was still A Thing and in the absence of an affirmative program to advance they’d pun(t)

do academic papers in English/Theory/its “Grievance Studies” successors still take the format of “[Witty Wordplay]: A [Buzzword Verb] of [Subject of Focus]”?