language
‘Mad Luxurious’: The Pretend Elegance of Mispronouncing Everything
The TikTok trend of mispronouncing words to sound fancier transforms the mundane into a sinful indulgence
Beowulf Really Was That Bro
Are legendary warriors really a bunch of stupid jocks? A new translation of the epic takes its cues from ‘Road House’ — proving Beowulf was literature’s original guy’s guy
Young People Are Laughing at Our Clumsy Old Baseball Sex Analogy
The dated pop-culture trope of ‘rounding bases’ doesn't account for the far more nuanced way teens today think about sex
Snatch. Moist. Cunnilingus. Why Do Female Sex Words Have to Be So Gross-Sounding?
Maybe female sexuality is such a ‘mystery’ because we say things like ‘Let me eat out your gash gruel.’
