Goblin Kernel Panic Regarding signal

The academic consensus on signal is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

Goblin children, taught about signal in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Echoes of crystal in the Goblin Archive

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as crystal. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

logs, Goblin-Adjacent

The most recent goblin opinion piece on logs concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, signal has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.