Uncle Seth News

inert is a word. ert is not.
unkempt is a word. kempt is not.
these are the things i learn in linguistics so that i can point them out when other people say them.
tara, kempt is not a word. :)
my mum's having her own little war on christmas lights being put up too early. i guess she's done with it now, but she says they're not supposed to go up until the first sunday of advent or at least not until the church has put their lights up (both of which happened this past weekend, but tons of people had their lights up earlier).
i say, who cares. at least they aren't putting them up in october. and we stole the whole "light" thing from the pagans anyway.
i say we sit back and enjoy the holidays and not worry about how others are doing their celebrating.
also, i find baking is always a nice gift... it's a gift that you make yourself and it's edible so it won't be sitting around til next year (unless of course you happen to make fruitcake, which is the strangest kind of cake ever). And you can do it all at once and give it to pretty much anybody. You could add a box of some exotic tea or coffee with it too if you feel like you need a bigger gift.
:)
 

yay the comments work again!
tara, my mistake, kempt is totally a word. my dictionnary sucks and i had a prof whose first language wasn't english and my own lack of engagement in that class had me accepting her examples, even if they were wrong.
i stand by ert not being a word though. so don't say ert. unless you're pretending to be british and dropping h's.
ok. done now. :)
 

In fairness, I believe you're totally right that "ert" is not a word.

Maybe it should be thou... you could see how useful a word like that would be, such as "dude, that plutonium-238 you gave me to arm my warhead was TOTALLY ert! Thanks, dude!"