The Lexicographer's Rules

My friend Tatiana Kelly is a producer of the movie Wristcutters, a selection of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. (Source Link)

Web sites which primarily offer text-based news should mark all video content with an icon so that those visitors who do not want to see the stone-ugly faces of print reporters, hear their swing-shift-at-the-morgue voices, or do not want to or cannot view video, can avoid clicking on the link. Bonus rule: know your readers. Pop-ups resulting from link clicks are for retards who are not using tabbed browsers and who don’t know how to load new pages in tabs in the background. Your readers are not retards.

“My correspondent never wrote back. That, of course, would violate the rules for being an Internet pill, reprinted here in their entirety, courtesy of the Pills of the American Internet Neighborhood Society (PAINS).” (Source Link)

A profile of one of the few businesses on the Lower East Side leftover from the days when it was the Jewish heart of the city.

“Vargas was hired on when he was 17, shortly after emigrating from the Dominican Republic. He used to keep a small notebook in the pocket of his butcher’s coat, on which he would scribble phonetically the Yiddishisms that he learned on the job. These days, Vargas, who calls Russ & Daughter patrons ‘an extension of my family,’ can carry on light conversation in the mama loshen, and knows that when customers ask for the heshbin, they want the bill.”

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”Clearly, ‘-ese’ here relates to derogation and shows a low opinion of people.”

Good luck with that. You’ll get about as much traction as the pathetic “USian” in describing Americans.

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