I was an op on a Dalnet channel.

The "-enta" form is far from new in Spanish. "Asistenta" (housemaid) has been standard for many decades, and Clarín published *La regenta* in 1886. The gender markers (or non-markers) that are new include the bizarre "x" of "Latinxs", the ampersand of "l@s alumn@s", and the "a" of "jueza".

Ignore DMs. I wasn't paying attention (again).

Even Coppola's "flawed" (i.e. a bit crap in parts) efforts - Tucker, Cotton Club, Dracula... - are better than most other working directors' best films. Everything's relative.

Absolute banger indeed. People forget the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks and the Who didn't exist in a vacuum. Other now-forgotten bands like this crew, the Tremeloes, the Move, Love Affair, and Dave Dee & co. also created (or at least fronted) lots of superbly crafted pop in the mid-'60s.

I'm also fond of a variant: "anyone who uses the word 'deliver' without owning a Ford Transit is etc., etc."

Guardiola: "I'm happy [the hearing] starts on Monday and I know there will be more rumours about the sentences that come up and we're going to see." He's not expecting them to be found guilty, just mistranslating "sentencia", which is any final judgment. (A sentence is a "condena".) #FalseFriend

A few years ago I bought a Sweet boxset at a chazza for a pittance mostly for the kitsch laughs, but when I played it I was stunned. What a guitar tone! Respect.

Suspended compounds - AKA "hung-over hyphens" - are ugly at the best of times. While barely acceptable when it's the second element that's repeated (as in "short- and long-term plans"), they're an arch, "look at me!" embarrassment when applied to the first, as here. #SaveOurSubs

Tammy, my absolute No. 1 "live gig I wasn't expecting to be all that but turned out to be breathtakingly fantastic".