by Jennifer Porter | Oct 12, 2024 | News
Episode 006: Well-Timed Chaos = Success October 2024 My Big Fat SFF Word Study Give me a word, any word… Convergence purportedly comes from the Latin convergere, which means ‘to incline together,’ or ‘to bend together.’ Many meanings...
by Jennifer Porter | Sep 19, 2024 | News
Episode 005: Loki’s Law August/September “Super Edition” My Big Fat SFF Word Study Give me a word, any word…What’s Loki’s Law, you ask? Well, it’s innately tied to the word conflagration, which is a fancy way of saying...
by Jennifer Porter | Jun 30, 2024 | News
Episode 004: Week/Weak, Same Dif My Big Fat SFF Word Study Give me a word, any word, and I’ll show you how it came from sci-fi or fantasy, or how SF/F makes that word better than the original! I bet you’re under the impression that weak and week are...
by Jennifer Porter | May 12, 2024 | News
Episode 003: Cappuccino — The ‘Logical’ Choice! My Big Fat SFF Word Study ”Cappuccino” (whose purveyors I’ve kept in business for many, many moons, but especially this last one) is thought by many to be of Italian origin, allegedly...
by Jennifer Porter | Apr 11, 2024 | News
Episode 002: “Tardy” is Actually a Sci-Fi Word My Big Fat SFF Word Study ”Tardy” (as in, “How tardy is this so-called ‘monthly’ newsletter?”) is thought by many to be of Latin or Anglo-French origin, (especially if...
by Jennifer Porter | Dec 19, 2023 | News
HELLO My Reader Friends! Grab your beverage of choice for reading news chronicles and prepare to be awed by my uncharacteristic brevity! 😂 (The weatherman says you have a 10-30% chance of being blessed if you believe that I am capable of brevity today —...
