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People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because leotards aren't intimidating.
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.
We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.
Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
Words take on many different meanings.
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
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