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I'm torn between thinking the oddest (or maybe weirdest) use of the word is Herbert's Dune - the weirding way - which I assume is a coinage But, that in my min
by hackeraccount 2y ago
I'm torn between thinking the oddest (or maybe weirdest) use of the word is Herbert's Dune - the weirding way - which I assume is a coinage
But, that in my mind competes with Bill Waterson's line from Calvin and Hobbes - "Verbing weirds the language."
- BLKNSLVR 2y agohttps://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 "Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding" Just glorious.
- Hasu 2y ago>I'm torn between thinking the oddest (or maybe weirdest) use of the word is Herbert's Dune - the weirding way - which I assume is a coinage Frank Herbert was just riffing on the original witchy definition. From the Dune glossary: WEIRDING: idiomatic: that which partakes of the mystical or of witchcraft.