Can You Give Me A Made Up Fact In Haiku Form?

did not realize there was a Gollum game out so I was staring at this thumbnail like 'well damn the little dude had his problems but 22 minutes of criticism seems excessive'

"pla·gia·rism [ˈplājəˌrizəm]: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own" is such a raw quote you'd think it was from the dictionary but i wrote it

A little something for Linguistics Tumblr.

So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn't a "room" so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to 'round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.

Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with "konbarning": a combination of "good morning" and "konban wa" ("good evening" in Japanese). It stuck.

Over the following months, "konbarning" got shortened to "barning" and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:

ra ra rasputin is objectively the funniest song ever written it's like "rasputin was an advisor to the romanovs and honestly he was a bit of a power-hungry conman (oof)... but you're not here for a history lesson! you want to know how much he fucked, don't you? well i'll tell you: he fucked. he fucked often and severely."

I simply don't think that's true eBooks.com but thank you anyway