2026-03-26 09:37 UTC
@sun @rain It's passé and lifeless now in the same way Star Wars is: all the goodness has been hugged out of it by fawning imitation
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@ullard@shitposter.world 2026-03-26 09:41
@rain @sun You might like "The Meaning of Liff" if you've not seen that before, which he worked on with John Lloyd, and which is way lesser-known. The idea was to re-purpose place names as words for familiar concepts in life that need names. A lot of it is dated now, but a lot of these definitions I still think of all the time: https://sqt.wtf/~ullard/liff.html Good examples: "clune", "low eggborough", and "humby"
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@sun@shitposter.world 2026-03-26 09:56
@ullard @rain I am not sure it's bad or cliche now or anything, I just always found it difficult to follow the flow and I wondered if others had that problem too.