Words I have added to my spellchecker in the last week

[rymenhild]

Christological
discursus
historicizing
martyrology
misreadings
overdetermined
positionings
postcolonialism
problematize / problematized / problematizing
totalization
unprovable
vernacularity

I was surprised, however, that the machine knew the word "postdiluvian".

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Student gems are on their way. While you wait for them to show up, I will share with you one piece of advice I really, really wanted to scrawl on the side of someone's research paper:

The Mabinogi were not written in Middle English. If you happened to mention to someone Welsh that you thought the Mabinogi were written in Middle English, he or she would have to kill you.

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And a meme, just because I feel like it: Choose one or two interests from my interest list. Ask me about them.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the former category doesn't count.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

As in critical theory? When I write papers, I'm afraid, I do have to use English-grad-speak. Otherwise the people grading don't know what I've written.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Of course. But that doesn't mean they should be recognized as words.