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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

KOReader ❤️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes literature delivers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like big steatopygous, and I cannot lie. 🎵

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You like big having fat buttocks?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone doesn’t hip-hop…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know the song. But 'steatopygous' is an adjective, as you can clearly see in the above dictionary entry, and thus not a valid replacement for the noun 'butts'.
Or to paraphrase you: Someone doesn't English…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I bet you’re really fun at parties. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really an ex-superlative though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's still an adjective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not really..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way, a GNU dictionary? Super cool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's built on top of the out of copyright 1913 Webster dictionary as well as a whole pile of crowdsourced updates. It's surprisingly thorough and quite good.

https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

IS THAT KOREADER??!?? SOOOO GOOOD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neat, are you reading Robert Asprin's Thieves World? I heard that it's a great s&s series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read it a couple of months back and, yeah, it's a solidly good s&s series. They did an ebook release of the original 12 anthologies as four collected volumes a year or two ago and I picked them up for like $3/ea on sale earlier this year. I liked them so much I tracked down the hardback collected edition on eBay when I was done.

If s&s or "street level fantasy" is your thing they're definitely worth a read. Lots of work from familiar sf&f names from the 70s and 80s that you wouldn't usually associate with s&s so it's a cool read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

callipygian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Steatopygous make the world go round