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a cat at the vet's, the cat is white and fluffy, only the hands of the person holiding and of the examining vet are visible

Smol Stories

The story you open your social media feed to is this: The cat has been taken to the dreaded V.E.T., the cat gets the cone of shame and even has to stay at the V.E.T.’s overnight for observation. What...

a mother cat is lying with her three kittens in a straw bed The kittens are looking at you, the mother cat is about to clean one of her kittens

Catspeak Means Social

How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder them on your own:  community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! You can certainly figure them out. But that would not be very...

A yawning cat

Some Sound Bites

Edith Podhovnik on her book, Purrieties of Language Looking at language is fun and that we can look at whatever phenomenon we want – as long as we know what we doing and how we are doing it in science....

AI creation (Confused black cat tangled in strings)

“There’s Method in My Madness”

It’s Pawlonius’s in William Shakespurr’s Hamlet who says, well, something like that. The correct line is actually “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. (Polonius, Act 2 Scene 2)” . Yet, this is so often misquoted as...