“Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.

Shopify fulfills what’s known in the software development community as the “80 percent use case,” which means it provides 80 percent of the features that merchants need and third-party developers supply the rest[…]

Gervinus speaks here not of literal music, but of those paralexical attributes of speech that often convey more emotion than words — intonation, pitch-level, volume, tempo, etc. […] Mussorgsky clearly desired to reduce the formal lexical content of the play to a bare minimum, leaving the greater room for paralexical play, that is, the musical qualities of speech. Richard Taruskin (1975) Opera and Drama in Russia: The Preachment and Practice of Operatic Esthetics in the Eighteen-sixties, Part 2, pp. 493, 497.

Coordinate term: expiation