PSA: all eyes are almond shaped, stop using that phrasing to describe asian eyes specifically k thanks

— sailor mercury (@sailorhg) September 24, 2018

Someone who doesn’t understand how language works.

Something that screws up — that goes horribly wrong — is never actually pear-shaped. We just call it that. Yes, that is a reductio ad absurdum of her original “point,” but language is always a dance of connotation and denotation, implication and complication, perceived and intended meaning (and the resonance between and among all of that).

Saying someone’s eyes are “almond-shaped” is certainly lazy writing. I’d never use it, not even in a blog post. But it indicates something apart from its direct referents of shape or nut, and that something is well understood.

After all, only squares would miss that.