Something lighthearted

[frogs_of_war]

If aliens lived among us with their own languages and art and philosophies, would we still call the study of such the ‘humanities’?

And

I came across a new word while reading Timeless by Gail Carriger (which I heartily recommend - but start with Soulless, which is book 1): Connubial

My daughter says it sounds vaguely dirt and vaguely Lovecraftian as in the: The connubial creature rises from the deep.

And I thought it sounded Egyptian, like something about Annubis.

But it really means: adj of or relating to the married state and of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love

The nouns are connubialism and connubiality. I really like the word connubiality. Steven and Seth lived in happy connubiality. But connubialism just sounds like one of those -isms you should stay away from.