Oh, those poor Mayans had no idea that European settlers would have no interest in what the locals called their wildlife. The Mayans didn’t actually have a campaign to call the native Mexican bird (known today as the Turkey- Meleagris Gallopavo) ‘the Maya’, but they are thought to have been the first to domesticate it, [...]
In some cases it can take longer to read textese than regular English, but my guess is as fewer words are repeated more often this will reverse. I’ve always been interested in etymologies and the evolution of words through changing cultures. I think I especially enjoyed learning early on that, as a living thing, language [...]
Let it be known that as of January 17th, 2011: ‘Carl Sagan‘, or in this case ‘Sagan‘, can now be used as a verb. To Sagan is to wistfully ponder upon or wax poetic about the cosmos. Webster’s Dictionary, take note. What with the recent Astrology news, I scrapped the previous astrology comic I had [...]