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Fast Company April 1, 2007 |
Emerging Web Jargon Plinking: The act of embedding a product or service link in a video. |
Geotimes February 2007 |
Did You Know? "Plutoed" is Word of the Year According to the American Dialect Society, "plutoed" is the 2006 Word of the Year, thanks to the planet's demotion to "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union earlier in the year. |
Geotimes January 2007 Lisa Rossbacher |
Words, Words, Words Geologists use lots of specialized words, and, befitting a science that covers the entire planet, the words come from all over the globe as well. |
Wired December 2006 Evan Ratliff |
Me Translate Pretty One Day Spanish to English? French to Russian? Computers haven't been up to the task. But a New York firm with an ingenious algorithm and a really big dictionary is finally cracking the code. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2006 Paul McFedries |
It's a Wiki, Wiki World Wikipedia is appearing everywhere and new words are sprouting everywhere as a result. |
Smithsonian November 2006 Paul Raffaele |
Speaking Bonobo With bonobo and other ape-language experiments, the mythology of human uniqueness is coming under challenge. If apes can learn language, which we once thought unique to humans, then it suggests that ability is not innate in just us. |
Smithsonian October 2006 Ulrich Boser |
Say What? In an era of global communications, regional dialects are hanging in there, y'all. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Brian R. Santo |
Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
How To: Improve Your Vocabulary Some suggestions on how to improve your verbal expression. |
AskMen.com August 8, 2006 James Raiswell |
Keep Up In A Gourmet Cuisine Conversation Understanding a few basic terms, names and a few rules of what not to say should help you bluff your way through a fine-cuisine conversation. |
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