Why are we yelling??
The wug, a cute, blue, bird-like creature with lil stick legs, is the subject of controversy (the kind with lawyers, yikes!) about who can use it.
If you’re on Twitter, your first indication that something was up might have been that our favorite linguist, Steven “I’m actually not a linguist” Pinker, tweeted about it. Well, he tweeted about himself, but the vehicle for his self-congratulation was the creator of the wug, Jean Berko Gleason (or JBG, as we will refer to her going forward). So if you’re one of the lucky few who hasn’t been blocked by the celebrated genius (or his mysterious colleague), you might have seen this on or around September 11: