by Jennifer Porter | Feb 13, 2025 | News
The Valentine Fantasy (Episode 010) February 2024 Lost in Multiversal Translation Merriam-Webster defines the word valentine as a person chosen as a sweetheart, or a gift given to a sweetheart on Valentine’s Day. The word and the holiday seem to have...
by Jennifer Porter | Jan 15, 2025 | News
Irradiate the New Year! (Episode 009) January 2024 Lost in Multiversal Translation The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word radiate as something that shines brightly and/or spreads out from a center point. It says the first recorded use of this word was...
by Jennifer Porter | Dec 19, 2024 | News
To Nog, or Not to Nog 🍪🥛 (Episode 008) December 2024 Lost in Multiversal Translation Oscillate: The dictionary would have us believe that it’s derived from the Latin oscillum (small mouth or small face) which referred to small masks hung from pine trees,...
by Jennifer Porter | Nov 25, 2024 | News
*CORRECTED* Episode 007: How to Launder Clothes (and Time) Like a Seasoned Pro November 2024 Laundry Mishaps (a.k.a.*CORRECTIONS* Explained) It came to my attention following the release of Episode 007 two weeks ago that there was some inaccurate info in the...
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 —...
