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International Style
By coincidence, the timing of our stylebook revisions dovetailed with the rebranding of our global editions as The International New York Times. As part of that integration, our colleagues in Paris, London and Hong Kong have made a Herculean effort to adopt our stylebook and largely eliminate the variations and exceptions The Herald Tribune had […]
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The problem with ‘selfies’ isn’t narcissism: it’s that all photos now look the same
When did this fashion start, by the way, for a “word of the year”? The OED has just made “selfie” the word of 2013. What won in, say, 1840; what would that teach us about Britain? The Penny Post was launched, so was “Stamp” all the rage? The great novelist Fanny Burney died, so maybe– […]
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Gay now means rubbish. Get over it
Young people, eh? They’re always changing the meaning of words. When I was a youngster, “sick” meant ill; now it means good. “Ill” also means good, or more accurately doubly good – something is “ill” if it’s really cool. “Mad” is now used to mean lots – if someone has “mad style” that means they […]
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The rise of “selfie”
named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/67063229803
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Basically, don’t underestimate your listener | Mind your language
Let’s trust each other with depth and detail, not try to reduce conversation to basics When it comes to the word “basically” – banned by an academy in south London – I don’t have old ears. I’m not just grumpy about its usage among the young. And I’m certainly not missing any interpersonal nuance or […]