Tag Archives: Language

32 hours

July 23, 2007 – 6:02 am

Harry Potter arrived in our house around 10am on Saturday, and by 6pm Sunday my better half had finished it. Now I know what you’re thinking, and it’s true; that is a long time. We had to go to my father’s for a birthday party, which really cut into her available time. The verdict? It’s [...]

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Gay and So Gay

July 9, 2007 – 10:07 am

I was reading a couple of articles on the Out Front Blog, one covering the difference in acceptability between the words ‘gay’ and ‘homosexual’, the other protesting the use of the word gay to mean lame or rubbish. This set off a couple of trains of thought, neither of which have arrived at the station, [...]

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Pedantry

June 28, 2007 – 11:38 am

In which your shut-in author writes to the BBC when his pedant juices come to boiling point: Hi, I was reading your piece on the latest supercomputer, and was a little disappointed to read the following: “The latest number cruncher is capable of operating at so called “petaflop” speeds – the equivalent of 1,000 trillion [...]

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Terms I didn’t need to hear

May 31, 2007 – 9:20 am

From a Merlin Mann vodcast: “This world of email bukkake, where you’re constantly being showered with new stuff.” If you don’t know what that funny-looking word means, DON’T google it at work.

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Out of Sorts

March 30, 2007 – 8:10 am

Here’s an account of the origins of the phrase ‘out of sorts’. Interesting in its own right, but also because by the end of it you’ll probably be thinking what a weird word sorts is. It just doesn’t look right. Sorts, sorts, sorts.

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