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Old Slang: Appreciating Webster’s with Bots

[Peter Organisciak:][link]

>The medium of Twitter bot offers us the ability to shine a spotlight on the entries as individual entities; “hence, conspicuous public notice“. While it is certainly possible to look up all the words, perhaps dig through my Github account to find them, there is a different dynamic of attention with a tweet. Having @OldSlang drop another tweet in your timeline from time to time is not simply a slow-burn form of reading, but a different experience or appreciation.

I’m all over this.

[link]: http://www.porganized.com/blog/digital-humanities/old-slang-appreciating-websters-with-bots “peter organisciak » Blog Archive » Old Slang: Appreciating Webster’s with Bots”

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The thorny problem of “ye”

[John August on][link] the (to me, anyway) revelation that the quaint olden-times word “Ye”, as in “Ye Olde Shoppe,” was [actually pronounced “the” and was the result of typesetting problems][bbc] relating to the missing “[Thorn][thorn]” glyph in many printing fonts.

[link]: http://johnaugust.com/2011/ye-olde-shoppe-never-existed “The thorny problem of ‘ye’ | johnaugust.com”
[bbc]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2922077 “Thorn – Missing Letter of the Alphabet”
[thorn]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) “Wikipedia: Thorn (Letter)”

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Pantonemime

Your Extra Future Word-A-Day Calendar Entry For 25 October 2010.

###Pan•tone•mime
[**pan**-tohn-mahym]

**noun**, **verb**, -mimed, -mim•ing

> Describing a color through the use of physical gestures.

(with help from [Peter Flaschner][link])

[link]: http://twitter.com/flashlight “Peter Flaschner”

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Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Microsoft and Yahoo!’s Joint “Choice. Value. Innovation.” Announcement About Sharing Search Engine and Advertisement Technology

[Jesper answers my call][link]. Makes sense, now.

[link]: http://waffle.wootest.net/2009/07/29/pr-speak-msft-yhoo-bing/ “waffle → Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Microsoft and Yahoo!’s Joint Choice. Value. Innovation. Announcement About Sharing Search Engine and Advertisement Technology”