Topic : Word OriginsLanguage LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversThe Notional Space of the Digital World August 1, 2019 By Orin Hargraves
Metaphors about space come at us so thick and fast in talking about the digital world that we don't even notice that they are there, and that's probably a good thing: it helps us to make sense of complicated phenomena.
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Do you find 21st-century life shallow and superficial? Take another look: In fact, ours is an era of extraordinary depth — linguistically speaking, anyway. As the 2011 song by Adele put it, we're rolling in the deep.
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This fast-growing transportation trend has added some new terms to our vocabulary, and revived some older ones.
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The ubiquitous, and relatively recent, commercial sense of nation veers away from the word's earlier meanings. And it intersects in interesting ways with a related word that's also in the spotlight right now: nationalism.
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Article Topics:Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and newMephitic Weasels in the Garden House April 5, 2019 By Mark Peters
Here are some of the latest and non-greatest lengths your fellow hairless apes have gone to not say what they mean.
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Just as there are oodles of food trucks, there are mega-oodles of language emetics in the form of euphemisms. Please hate enjoying or enjoy hating the following.
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influencer – the word, not the status – is one of the most influential buzzwords of our era.
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