Figures

Brain training with an ex-parrot

The synonymia is a figure that can temporarily liberate us from our smartphones.

Nov 21 •

Magic in the Great Green Room

You will find almost all of rhetoric's power in this one children’s book.

Nov 11 •

Meet the Feghoot, a pun-enabled shaggy dog

Tell a story that makes bogs dark and Britannia waive the rules.

Nov 7 •

Instead of a humblebrag, try an honorflip.

The precarious prevalence of the portmanteau, a device that sends words packing.

Oct 14 •

That’s just, like, a figure of speech, man.

It’s called, y’know, a parelcon, and it really brings a sentence together.

Oct 7 •

Raw-Dogging: The idiom that only a Y chromosome could have written.

I mean, would a woman think of raw-dogging as a challenge Or call it “raw-dogging?”

Sep 5 •

This Figure Has a Power We Can Measure

If only you and I could pronounce it.

Sep 2 •

In a thorough memeification of a political candidate, Generation Z has declared Kamala Harris “brat.” She’s not just a brat, she’s brat.

Aug 6 •

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