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Entries Tagged as 'Language'

“I Love Me, Vol. I.”

November 8th, 2006 · No Comments

OMG. I love palindromes. Say it backwards, say it forwards. It’s the same! Get all your literary goodness every day from Jim Kalb’s Palindrome Connection.
I’m, alas, a salami!
UPDATE: I love them so much I made a cute little palindrome generator. Go to http://uberthings.com/palindromic for your word of the day.
UPDATE2: I am such a dork. I [...]

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Tags: Language · Supercool

I call bullshit on the OED

June 6th, 2006 · 2 Comments

So there I was, casually glancing through a list of some hip’n’tasty neologisms breaking into the charts on Ask Oxford when I came across something absolutely and utterly ridiculous. Tell me if you spot anything wrong with this sentence:
Bluesnarfing: the illicit accessing of data from an electronic device such as a mobile phone, PDA, or [...]

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Tags: Language · Life