The other day when I was ordering pizza, I got to thinking about point-of-view assumptions that are ingrained in my English-speaking culture; I suppose that these examples could be called culturally or anglocentrically deictic. (I can’t speak for other English-speaking cultures, so I don’t know how inherent these assumptions are in other cultures.)

I had a couple dreams this morning:

Looking at a job posting for a random business online, I noticed that it says: “Looking For A Young Web/Graphic Designer” Um, unless said company has fewer than 20 employees… isn’t that illegal? I’m no lawyer, but as far as I know, age is one of the protected statuses against which businesses can’t discriminate. I [...]

Something I find interesting: English verbs that take specific objects. Verbs such as “eat” use types of objects, such as “edible things/foodstuffs”. But I’m talking about verbs that traditionally use only one or two different objects, even though other objects would make sense logically. Some example verbs that I can think of, and their ‘default’ [...]

Here is a list of funny-sounding phrases, suitable for band names, titles of artwork, or other labels — unique terms you won’t find anywhere else on the Internet.* It might be updated periodically. Let me know if you use any of these, so that I can cross them off the list: