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Abraham Piper

Nov 3 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

I almost never title my paintings, but 30 seconds ago I sort of impulsively decided to name them all before the art crawl in NE MPLS this weekend…

Wanna help?

If I post a pic of a painting, will you tell me what it’s called?

If I get a few likes/yesses, I’ll get started. 🙏

I mean, yeah, I could call it “urinal plumbing,” but what else you got?

This one is duct taped into the frame, but that’s not relevant information.

This is a background that I decided didn’t need a foreground

This one’s 5 feet tall.

This was a building outside my hotel window in Miami. (There wasn’t actually a chair in the sky.)

This one sorta names itself, but I’m including it anyway just for fun

@SolarArtsBuild

Oh, the art crawl… Hundreds of studios around NE #minneapolis are open this weekend. I’m in @SolarArtsBuild 🤘

It feels like the circus just arrived but maybe it’s just Fall

A self portrait from when I had shorter hair

Here’s a pic of an orange circle. I’ve got a couple of those.

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Nov 5

It’s very possible that the word “neurodivergent” will become a slur in our lifetime.

Not because there’s anything wrong with it. Of course not. There’s nothing inherently wrong with any list of letters that we call a word.

No, if “neurodivergent” becomes offensive, it’ll be because of a linguistic force that is almost impossible to hold back:

✨The euphemism treadmill✨

This is a phenomenon that turns benign descriptors into insults.

And it’s incessant.

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Nov 2

Conservative christianity is concerned about your well-being like the Albino is concerned for Westley in the Pit of Despair.

It’ll nurse you back to health…but why?

The torment of constant guilt is built into evangelicalism. It’s a ✨feature✨.

That gnawing sense of things being morally off inside you no matter what…

That’s supposed to be there.

Fundamentalist faith doesn’t relieve this pain. It instills it. And then from time to time it alleviates it just enough to keep you around so it can instill more.

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Oct 28

Have you ever been, like, corrected for, like, using “like” like this?

Well then, I have some good news for you:

This usage of “like” is sometimes used for emphasis, but more often it's used to, like, hedge what we're saying.

And when do you think people started doing this?

Can we blame teenagers? Or maybe 1980’s valley girls?

Nope, neither.

When's it from then? The 70s? 60s? 50s?

All no.

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Oct 28

As a kid who was raised conservative Christian in the 80s, I was led to believe that the way to avoid getting AIDS was to only sleep with your spouse. (1/…)

I understand the reasoning behind that, namely:

If two people in their whole lives only ever hook up with each other, it’s unlikely they’ll experience any sexually transmitted unpleasantness.

But at the time, the nuances of *why* this would be the case weren’t made clear to me.

Perhaps because, with nuance, comes gray area, and with gray area comes alternatives.

✨You mean there are other ways to protect oneself?!✨

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Abraham Piper

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Oct 27

Why do some people say “aks” instead of “ask”?

It’s not “just their accent” and it sure as hell isn’t a mispronunciation.

There’s a linguistic reason and a cultural reason. Let’s quickly look at both:

First, “ask” and “aks” are the same word because of ✨metathesis✨, which is when two sounds in a word trade places.

For example, nobody corrects you when you swap the T and R sounds in “comfortable” and say “comfterble,” instead.

It’s the same with “aks” and “ask.” They’ve always been interchangeable.

Both “ascian” and “acsian” were used in Old English.

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Oct 27

There's no such thing as a commonly mispronounced word. Because in language, common = correct. (1/…)

To be clear, you *can* mispronounce a word.

For instance, the other day my wife said “flute flies” instead of “fruit flies” and we had a laugh, because flute flies would be the most annoying musicians ever.

That's just a slip of the tongue though, and we all do it, but…

You can't have a *common* mispronunciation, because if it's common, it's not wrong.

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