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Posted by on Mar 31st, 2010 | 0 comments

The Most Badass Alphabet Ever

The Most Badass Alphabet Ever
Paul Tassi has put some illustrations up on his site for an alphabet book. As expected there is one page for each letter of the alphabet beginning with “A is for…” Does he follow up with ‘apple’? No. He gets a bit more into it. He follows through each letter of the alphabet with the most bad-ass alliterative combinations he can come up with, complete with illustrations to boot....
Posted by on Aug 28th, 2009 | 0 comments

Science oddity

Science oddity
The perfect David Bowie song has been created, and it wasn’t even done by David Bowie himself. Dr. (of psychology) Nick Troop at the university of Hertfordshire has employed Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count on Bowie’s body of work to wind up with his song “Team, meet Girls; Girls, meet Team” which, according to him, is the ideal configuration of Bowie’s secret blend of ingredients. We...
Posted by on May 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments

Video game editorial 101

English teacher Mrs. Buttermer has taken out her red pen and given it quite the workout, proof reading and marking up an article by Ryan Ash about the worst video game consoles of all time. The hyperbole she highlights penetrates both journalism around videogames and marketing of games and their hardware. The industry needs to start treating us like...
Posted by on Jul 25th, 2007 | 0 comments

Language hacking

Erin McKean, over from Verbatim, had recently given a Google Tech TalkTM about hacking the english language in order to invent a new word. Funnily enough, a video of her Google Tech TalkTM is available for viewing up at Google Video. Sadly nobody asks her about ginormous or crunk. Sharing:
Posted by on Jul 12th, 2007 | 4 comments

When is a word not a word?

When it is in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition: The supermarket tabloid of dictionaries. Thats right, Merriam-Webster has announced this year’s additions to their catalog of linguistic monstrosities.  ‘Ginormous‘ is among them which earns particular disdain from Ohmpage. They don’t list all the additions though as they prefer to just give you a...
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