Truthiness?

Word of the year. Funny. It's all relative, I suppose. Judging from my life, you would have thought craptastic would have made it.


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Neato!

Okay, here's a freebie. On this webiste:

http://deafandblind.com/word_frequency.htm#written-english

They have this list:

"Word Frequency of Two-Letter Words in the English Language:
of to in it is be as at so we he by or on do if me my up an go no us am"


Now, take that list and divide it into equal four-word lines, like this:

of to in it
is be as at
so we he by
or on do if
me my up an
go no us am

Ah ha! See? There!

Now, read that out loud as if it is a poem. Repeat it three or four times, speaking a little faster each time until, by the third or fourth time, you're speaking so fast it's just one long hilarious blurrrr of phonemes!

Congratulations, you've just written/performed a performance/language poem in the style of Christian Bok.

So long!

Word frequencies

Word and letter frequencies. "The" is screwing up the averages. (From Maud)


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Whitelist

Explained.


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A tabloid primer

Maud points us to a glossary of tabloid terms that's making its way around the email circuit.

Feisty: Short, old female
Flamboyant: Homosexual
Controversial: He did something bad but we're not sure what
Scandal-plagued: Guilty
Informed source: Reads the newspaper
Confirmed bachelor: see "Flamboyant"
War-torn: We can't find it on a map
Venerable: Should be dead but isn't (eg: Strom Thurmond)
Knowledgable observer: The reporter
Knowledgable observers: The reporter and the person at the next desk
Self-styled: Phony
Guru: see "Self-styled"


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The stand alone "Esque" or "Ish": similar to.

"Like that stupid little car over there?"

"Hmm. Esque, but even smaller."

"Sounds gay."

"Well, ish. But, fuck-you Exxon Valdez."

'Meh' was one of my favourite features of the dialogue in A Complicated Kindness. I second that motion.

Meh

What's your favourite word that's not in the dictionary? (Does anyone remember which big paper has that neologism contest every year? I have a list of "words" I keep meaning to send. Like "Dessertation"... The sweet last paragraph of seven years' work.)


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"Treeware"

BoingBoing covers the advent of a recent coinage.


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Christianists and Christianphobics

Perhaps because of this,* William Safire gives these semi-divine words* the once over.


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All you need is love...

The greatest words of all time? Nuh-uh. Shows how good an internet survey is... I got four little babies right here that beat that hands down: "all you can eat".



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