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December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I wrote a program that identifies what I call “nested compound words”: words that can have real English words removed from their interior and still concatenate to real words.

My favorite is BARTENDER, which produces
ART + BENDER,
TEND + BARER,
and END + BARTER.

#programming #linguistics #words
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November 19, 2023 at 3:01 PM
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My first Bluesky notification and it’s really good
Screenshot of a notification that says “new follower! Satan has followed you.”
November 18, 2023 at 5:37 PM