So I’ve been pretty much hunting all my life.
You can look at the things I’m saying about my record and about the events of campaign and history and you’ll find if now and then I miss a word or I get something slightly off.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/us/politics/21cnd-romney.html?hp
Friday, December 21, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Nouvelle Language: Le Geek
Anna Pickard
Thursday December 20, 2007
The Guardian
W00t - an interjection, used to convey excitement. And now, says the Merriam-Webster dictionary, 2007's word of the year - albeit one coined at least 15 years ago by early internet users. But with this development, internet slang, verb-acronyms, creative misspellings, portmanteux and joyfully painful grammar, is officially no longer confined to life online. A simple guide to some other popular terms from the geektionary includes:
teh: the (letters are transposed in deliberate misspellings, the dangers of speed-typing lightheartedly feeding into the lexicon).
Thursday December 20, 2007
The Guardian
W00t - an interjection, used to convey excitement. And now, says the Merriam-Webster dictionary, 2007's word of the year - albeit one coined at least 15 years ago by early internet users. But with this development, internet slang, verb-acronyms, creative misspellings, portmanteux and joyfully painful grammar, is officially no longer confined to life online. A simple guide to some other popular terms from the geektionary includes:
l33t: the internet slang language to which "w00t" belongs. Derived from "elite", and created by talkboard users, who, wishing to discuss oft-banned topics without getting caught by search engines, used punctuation and numbers to replace letters.
teh: the (letters are transposed in deliberate misspellings, the dangers of speed-typing lightheartedly feeding into the lexicon).
b0rked: broken, usually beyond hope of repair. And more fun to say than "broken".
suxxor, and its opposite, roxxor: something that "sucks or "rocks". As in: "d00d! This pizza is teh roxxor!!!1!1!" (Overpunctuation obligatory, ironicised by the inclusion of "mistyped" numbers)
WTF, Mate?: Abbreviating "what the fuck?!" isn't new, but this phrase's online usage spread after The End Of The World - an online animation featuring a bemused kangaroo caught up in nuclear war (googling "wtf mate" will take you straight to it).
LOL: Laughing out loud. See also ROFL (pronounced: roffle), rolling on the floor laughing. But since these are generally exaggerations, a new phrase, popularised by comedian Dimitri Martin, LQTM (laughing quietly to myself), is thought more honest.LOLcats: much of the terrrible English currently littering the web can be traced to the phenomenon of LOLcats (see icanhascheezburger.com) - images of cute critters with comedy captions written to bizarre grammatical rules. Main rule: LOLcats love oversimplified grammar, can't spell, prefer "z" over "s", and like cheezburger.
K Thnx Bai: How a satisfied LOLcat ends a conversation. No longer confined to LOLcats: peeplz too. And, at their current speed, expect Merriam-Webster to pick up on it in about 16 years.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Man & Woman Department
When men want to put down a powerful woman in a sexist way, they will say she’s a hag or a nag or a witch or angry or hysterical.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/opinion/19dowd.html?em&ex=1198213200&en=4b981059b5f01e94&ei=5087%0A
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/opinion/19dowd.html?em&ex=1198213200&en=4b981059b5f01e94&ei=5087%0A
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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