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Magazine articles on language and the origin and properness of words and expressions.
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Wired
August 24, 2009
Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. mark for My Articles 114 similar articles
Search Engine Watch
August 12, 2009
Andy Atkins-Kruger
Translating Keywords Should Never EVER Happen Keywords are the fruit of a language, hanging on the branches of trees that grew and were nurtured in the local climate and are rooted in the local culture. Translation can't predict that. mark for My Articles 232 similar articles
Wired
July 20, 2009
Jonathon Keats
Jargon Watch: Virus Battery, Kettling, Caloplaca Obamae New words for new situations. mark for My Articles 7 similar articles
Wired
June 22, 2009
Jonathon Keats
Jargon Watch: Queasing, Predator X, Greenfinger New words for contemporary phenomena and newly discovered dinosaurs mark for My Articles 6 similar articles
Information Today
June 2009
K. Matthew Dames
Intellectual Property: Why the Frame of `Piracy' Matters What does piracy really mean? The term's definition and history are important along with the reasons why its continued misrepresentation matters to the country's copyright policy. mark for My Articles 259 similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Paul McFedries
Suffix It to Say The ubiquitous suffix illustrated in contemporary English words to look out for, like vaporware, freeware, shareware et al. mark for My Articles 1 similar article
Wired
May 22, 2009
Jonathon Keats
Jargon Watch: Gastric Condom, Equasy, Dark Flow, Virtual Parent Definitions for gastric condom, equasy, dark flow, and virtual parent. mark for My Articles 4 similar articles
Wired
Jonathon Keats
Jargon Watch: Meta-Meta, Kenken, Micromagician, Patternicity New terms for metapuzzles, logic puzzles, magicians, and finding patterns. mark for My Articles 18 similar articles
Wired
March 23, 2009
Jonathon Keats
Jargon Watch: Satellite Sheik, Spitterati, Locasexual New terms to define media-savvy religious leaders, celebrities into genetic sequencing, a giant amoeba, and an environmentalist who dates close to home. mark for My Articles
Wired
Jonathon Keats
Jargon Watch: Valedictocracy, ISS Toolbag, Chemistrode New words to help describe current news. mark for My Articles 3 similar articles
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