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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I find it kind of funny that we call pointed things "star shaped" when actual stars are literally just spheres, the least pointed object you can possibly have.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

tell that to my astigmatism lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The second one is kinda intuitive :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These are just normal words now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. The idea of the comic is not to be a vocabulary-builder, but an opportunity to enjoy words for their own sake; their sounds, their meanings, the images they can conjure in the mind, the places they take up in our imaginations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it your comic? If so, good job.

I consider myself to have a decent vocabulary, but I would not have gotten sinuous' definition correct.

Harbinger I knew, but it's nice to see In a positive example.

The other two were new to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not mine, but I've been a fan of Grant's for a few years, and I know he'd appreciate your kind words.