An interesting language thing I was thinking about while walking yesterday after seeing a 'no solicitors' sign rather than the usual 'no soliciting' one: solicitor, soliciting, and solicitation all have pretty different meanings in modern english despite their common root.
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@swachter@toot.boston I could have done with it waiting a liiiiiitle longer to thunder, but I am all about decreasing temperatures!
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@sj@sparrowhawk.social immediately messaged my grad school friend who lives there and who I KNOW watches men's hockey as soon as I saw the press conference announcement! Yay!
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@rednikki@toot.boston IIRC anyone can pay to put up messages? The last game I went to there were typos for Troop or Troupe and Massachusetts, though, which made me laugh.
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@rednikki@toot.boston have a wonderful time! I'm cheering from home! :blob_salute: