American - Editor | 1971 -
For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.
Erin McKean
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People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
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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.
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A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.
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Words take on many different meanings.
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'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
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We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
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If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.
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There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
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All language is a popularity contest.
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What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.
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Language is a nice way to remember things.
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