December 2009
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Robot-salesmen were everywhere, gesturing, pleading, shrilling. One started...
– Philip K. Dick’s 1954 short story Sales Pitch (via fuckyeahsciencefiction)
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Merry Christmas
Really the only appropriate time of year to toss around the word “merry”.
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Schadenfreude
Little-used English words synonymous with schadenfreude have been derived from the Greek word ἐπιχαιρεκακία.[2][3]Nathan Bailey’s 18th-century Universal Etymological English Dictionary, for example, contains an entry for epicharikaky that gives its etymology as a compound of epi (upon), chaira (joy/charity/heart), and kakon (evil).[4][5] A popular modern collection of rare words, however,...
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