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- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
All language is a popularity contest.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is a nice way to remember things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All words have life cycles.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
- Flannel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Lexicographers are language reporters.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020