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Well no, prostitution is specifically the form of work that involves delivering sexual experiences to clients; just as bricklaying is the form of work that involves installing bricks in an organized fashion onto clients' property. Bricklaying doesn't normally involve sexual experiences, and prostitution doesn't normally involve bricks, but both are work.

Prostitution is also performance work, which is a category that also includes acting, music, and pro wrestling. It is also body work (that is, the worker does something to the client's body); which is a category that also includes massage, surgery, and hairstyling.

It always was.

"Deep state!" is what an accused murderer cries, after they find out that having their buddy elected governor doesn't cause the cops and the DA to stop prosecuting murder charges.

This is the Dropbox model, apparently.

Also: to oversee (supervise); to overlook (neglect); to look over (examine).

"I regret that I have no more fucks to give for my country."

This is very popular in newspaper headlines. It's sometimes called a "noun pile".

Times chief editor: Thirteen-word headline noun pile author firing race controversy rebuttal!

(That is: "The chief editor of the Times has responded in the matter of the firing of headline writer Joe Jones. Jones alleged that his firing from the Times was due to racial bias. However, the chief editor claims in response, that Jones was fired for writing a headline composed of nothing but thirteen nouns.")

Beer pong is a party game played on a table. If you put the table in the pool, you can play water beer pong. Attach some floats so it doesn't sink, and it is a water beer pong table. If you then strap a skimpy swimsuit to that table, the swimsuit is a water beer pong table thong.

"Though the tough cough and hiccough, plough them through."

https://youtu.be/j53z6RfFb7U?t=28

I hain't a helk, I'm a g-nu!

The English words "video", "visual", and "view" are all from the same Latin root, but imported into English from Latin and French at different points in history. The letters "vi" are not pronounced the same in any two of them.

This kind of shit just happens with language. It's normal.

Also, she was already married, and pregnant with someone else's child.

In the immortal words of Dave Barry, I am not making this up.

It's a dishonest accountant's birthday.

You give them a cake in the shape of a book that's on fire.

This is a bad joke and they are mad at you.

To let the cat out of the bag: Idioms are always like this.

In some Caribbean Englishes, the pronunciations of the words "can" and "can't", which are opposites, differ only in vowel length: kyan, kyaan.

Englishes have words for the second-person plural pronoun, but Standard English doesn't have one word for it.

If two speakers are from the same background, they probably share a word for it. If they're from different places or different races, they might not.

Hieroglyphs were used for different things! They weren't always used to denote sounds, but sometimes whole words or parts of words. Some of the ways they were interpreted could seem like puns or puzzles today.

To make a very loose analogy, with emoji as hieroglyphs:

• 🦆 — can stand for a duck, the actual waterbird
• 🦆u — here, the sound duck is modified by another sign. This is the word duke.
• 🦆o — similarly, this is dock.
• 📐🦆 — by combining the signs for triangle and duck, we spell out the pronunciation of the word truck.
• (🦒🦆🦒🦉📰) — the name Jack Jones, spelled as giraffe duck giraffe owl news.

This is an analogy; the point is that the same sign could be used for different things, especially at different times in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs#Writing_system

Stop playing with the fascist, folks. The fascist is not playing. They never are.

According to Fox News, the Trumpie calling himself "David Friedman" was in fact born under the name "Adolf Amalek Haman".

Asking why like this has the implicit flawed premise that human behaviors like this are products of conscious thought.

This is not generally a flaw. We can ask "why?" questions about lots of natural processes that don't involve conscious thought. For example, a lot of plant growth follows mathematical patterns; the "why?" is that this optimizes the use of space or of sunlight, so it's favored by evolution.

Humanity has been using writing for millennia. It's a proven technology. Photographs and video don't tend to last longer than the one institution or family that cares about them.

Yes, and? They should stop.

"I really don't think of you, or Twilight Sparkle, in that way."

(A flirty acquaintance had sent me unsolicited erotic My Little Pony fanart.)