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OMG & LOL Added To The Dictionary
Culture Buzz [sniff] This is a proud moment for BuzzFeed. OMG and LOL have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Maybe now our Grandmas will understand what we do here.
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Link: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
http://dictionaryofobscuresorrows.tumblr.com/
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A Tumblr devoted to describe those hard-to-pin-down emotions such as “yearning to move into a photo from a hundred years ago” (shorpy). I'm sure there are words for all of these feelings in German, but for now, this is the best that we English speakers have. (via rcbth)
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Link: To Tweet? To Twitter? The Final Word On Proper Twitter Lingo
http://mashable.com/2009/06/11/twitter-ap-stylebook/
Yesterday, we noted that “Web 2.0” had been recognized as the “one millionth English word” by The Global Language Monitor. Today, the AP Stylebook, which you might remember from journalism classes, has officially added Twitter.
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“Meh”
Culture Buzz Via his Twitter, John Hodgman (yes, that “PC guy”) takes a stand against “meh” — calling it “…almost universally seems to signal: I am just interested enough to make one last joyless, nitpicky swipe and then disappear.” An official “meh” backlash? Is “meh” the new FAIL? How many joyless Twitterers do we think responded: “@hodgman meh”?
