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  Today is the feast of St Hildegard of Bingen. Abbess, mystic, composer, physician, and the earliest conlanger known to history. Hence regarded as the patron saint of conlanging #HappyStHildegardsDay #conlang

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  This human belongs to Bonnie

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  The fine art of the splodge.

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  I think that Agatha Christie and other "golden age" mystery writers would have found the true crime genre highly distasteful. Since they were writing murders as puzzles for entertainment, they deliberately made the crimes implausible to avoid ghoulishness

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  After much cursing of MediaWiki's table syntax, I've just published Kipin's pronoun system. https://www.frathwiki.com/Kipin/Morphology/Pronouns #conlang

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  There was a young lady of Split Who hated limericks.

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  @Minimus Does Minimus ever have problems distinguishing whether people are talking to him (Minime!) or just saying no (minime!)?

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  "Well-rounded, smooth, aromatic and slightly nutty." #CoffeeLabelOrDatingProfile

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  "They called me mad! Mad, they called me!" "Who did?" "That purple bloke over there, and the green one in the corner!"

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  Somebody tried to tell me he'd discovered the secret of invisibility, but I could see right through him.

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  Moriarty, I think we've found a Charlie.

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  What do you call a Klingon who's left all his weapons at home? Careless the Forgetful.

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  How would you configure #Apache to serve static content for GET requests and send POST and PUT requests to a script?

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  These are not the Star Wars jokes you're looking for.

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  A professor of entomology lamented that students were attracted to his course more by the prestige of his reputation than genuine interest in the subject matter. At the beginning of term, his class was full of obsequious toadies, but by the end they were sick of ants.

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  Today I made cardboard mounts and mounted 3 photos I'm entering in a competition. I have learnt a craft skill!

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  If the Daleks got into progressive rock, would it be Genesis Of The Daleks?

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  Social media often makes me feel that if anyone with even a superficial resemblance to me does something wrong, I'll be tarred with the same brush.

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  The ethical character of a technology is a reflection of the people who drive its development. There's nothing inherently wrong with technology that can adapt and learn. But the field of AI is currently dominated by some very toxic people and organisations. That situation is in turn the product of an economic and social system that rewards selfishness.

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  Politicians always try to appeal to the supporters of the party they're most afraid of. So, at the local elections, make sure the government are looking over their left shoulder, not their right shoulder.

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  #conlangers and other language geeks will be familiar with the following experience. "This grammatical feature I've just learned about is really weird... ...Hang on, English does that!"

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  I'm cross with Marvel for making The Avengers hard to search for. I don't want a bunch of superheroes, I want John Steed and Emma Peel!

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  "10x Engineer" is another way of saying "Stakhanovite".

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  During the First World War, the British Empire recruited soldiers from its subject peoples in Africa and India. Tolkien encountered such soldiers during his own military service. What he thought of using subject peoples like this can be inferred from the fact that in The Lord of the Rings, he ascribes the practice to Mordor.

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  An archvillain went on a quiz show. He scored no points and 10 passes. He was a diabolical Mastermind.

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  My son: #Matlab was designed to do one thing well... Me: Nobody knows what it was.

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  What do the KLF call their cats? The Justified Ancients of Mew Mew.