I'm ttired and misplaced with yet another handyman clomping around while I'm back on the freaking air mattress in the dining room in the vain hope that the bedroom will be restored to it's previous scarcely functional state, so it's language time.
Narad Trabant
Use of the word "liminal" has risen sharply, particularly in long-form journalism and public radio. It describes an “in-between” state, and is sometimes used for an aesthetic of deserted corridors, empty rooms, and unused auditoriums.
Nancy from New Haven, Connecticut, has noticed the word liminal turning up everywhere lately and wonders if she’s imagining it. She’s not. The word’s use has risen sharply since around 2021…
