I Love You So, Portmanteau!
- Not so long ago, there was a oppressed tribe of people, scattered throughout a larger population, whose very existence was seen as so taboo, so immoral, so illegal, they had to invent their own language to talk with each other, hidden in plain sight. - Because on the other side of that lay the real threat of not just discrimination, but ostraciza... See more
Chi Luu • The Unspeakable Linguistics of Camp - JSTOR Daily
Ah, but those horrid initialisms, naysayers cry—“LOL” and “OMG”—surely a mark of modern laziness, moral decline, and the end of Good English as we know it! Never mind that these naysayers use plenty of initialisms themselves—please RSVP ASAP and BYOB. Or that “OMG” goes back to 1917, when it was first used in a letter to Winston Churchill. What now
... See moreKory Stamper • Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
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The same word can mean a cruel slur or a pile of sticks.
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
