Emphatic -mst in Question Words

heartsinger came up with this brilliant idea:

*I've decided that since "whomst" is now an emphatic way of saying "who" in the interrogative, all the other question words can have similar treatment. Whymst, wheremst, whenmst, howmst.

Since English is in a state of high-change right now, anything can shift, including things that are almost never malleable like core grammatic features. So it has a chance of escaping into the wild.

Some of these are more pronounceable than others. I think "whenmst" would collapse to "whenst" and "whatmst" to "whatst" though.

Consider that English used to have a larger range of inflections: where (at), whither (where to), whence (where from). So wheremst fits right in as a way to add extra meaning, kind of like "where the fuck" only not crude. <3

Yeah, this is awesome, I'm backing this.

Joyous Yule

... to those of you celebrating!

Yule Recipes

Yule Rituals

So far I've gotten New Native Kitchen by Freddie Bitsoie and The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker, and a package of huckleberry taffy. :D

Birdfeeding

Today is partly cloudy and cool. 

I fed the birds.  I've seen a flock of sparrows but not much else.

Pool Open!

fuzzyred is hosting a pool for the Holiday Poetry Sale.


Tentative Target List
All Army of One poems
All Arts and Crafts America poems
Polychrome Heroics
Aquariana
Berretaflies
Iron Horses
Shiv
Pain's Gray (as funds allow)
All One God's Story of a Mid-life Crisis poems
If more funds come in:
Daughters of the Apocalypse poems
"A Desire to be Deeply Known," half-price $475.50

So far ng_moonmoth is interested in:
Pending consideration of the arts budget, I will likely pick up all of Army of One, Aquariana, Iron Horses, and Mid-Life Crisis. Plus a bit more to open up "A Desire to be Deeply Known"

If you are interested in joining the pool, please contact fuzzyred about that.

Cohousing

Here's a look at a cohousing community that built a concise, green building in Vancouver.

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