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Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-
by ex3xu 4y ago
Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke:
Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce
Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life
Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours:
Never read Hacker News
But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word has spread...
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- forgotusername6 4y agoThe word "susurrential" returns only two Google results. One is for this post. Does anyone know what this word is supposed to mean?
- antonyt 4y agoMost likely a corruption of susurrant. From susurrus, meaning a murmuring or whispering sound.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- stevula 4y agosusurrus or susurration is a very literary word for a whisper/whispering. The usual adjective would be susurrous or susurrant, rather than susurrential, but in any case it would mean “full of whispering sounds”.
- ex3xu 4y agoI think it's a portmanteau of susurrus and torrential, which serves to invoke the force and volume of a torrential downpour to the description.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- recuter 4y agoI believe that is his way of calling us gossipy ultracrepidarianists.
- KineticLensman 4y ago"An ultracrepidarian is a person who offers opinions beyond their own knowledge"