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Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.
Erin McKean
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Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
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You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
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If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.
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Lexicographers are language reporters.
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Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
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By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
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The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
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Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.
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If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
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