Arnold Zwicky's Blog

A Zippy on lexical semantics, and a wry Zits on watching your language:

(#1)

Define sup, and distinguish the referent from slurp. The proper names are, as usual for Zippy, entertaining, and the title is a separate bit of language play.

(#2)

The joke here, of course, is that Jeremy censors not just his speech — that would be routine — but also his thoughts.

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