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more gender pronouns: they

Posted on 24 February 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Facebook has finally broadened its pronoun options from 2 to 50. This should theoretically stop those odd posts with the “wrong” gender assignment, and make a lot of transgendered and queer people very happy. The only problem is that you have to…

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mihi placet

Posted on 29 July 2013 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

mihi placet. That’s how to “like” something in Latin. Facebook will ask you “quid in animo tuo est?” instead of “what’s on your mind?” Hopefully not everyone will respond with MC (short for magno cachinno = LOL). For describing those…

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