Lame-ass faux hipster slang
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Friday, April 21, 2006
Alright, you jackasses can stop trying to perpetrate that lame-ass supposed hipster slang that was shat out in the shape of the Hipster Handbook a couple of years ago. It’s not particularly clever, funny, or likely to catch on. It’s not ironic, either. Irony has a pointy end. This hoax is dull and rusted. (Source Link)
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
How many words in English?
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David Sedaris
While I think listing him as your favorite author is not to your credit and while I think he is somewhere on the spectrum between being the Bennet Cerf or the James Thurber of our generation—talented but never surpassing mere cleverness and doomed to be forgotten by all but people who buy Trivial Pursuit for the factoids—David Sedaris is still a funny man. Even funnier if you imagine his voice when you read his words.
Sorry, Elizabeth. : (
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Pizzini
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