The Lexicographer's Rules

Here’s an illustration of a Southern vowel merger. I took the photo at the farmer’s market in Raleigh, N.C., in February.

Nicolai Ouroussoff may think Renzo Piano’s addition to the Morgan Library and Museum is “dazzling,” but from the outside it looks to me like the shop class entrance of a prefab suburban high school. Like temporary shelter thrown down by the only bidder to make it through onerous bureaucratic paperwork. What kind of ego takes one of the last brownstones left on Madison Avenue and glue-guns up two storeys of barn siding right next to it? Mere feet away?

Can you tell I hate it?

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OneLook added Double-Tongued to its catalog of references that can be meta-searched, but just the headwords. (I have a request for a slight typo fix: they spelled it Double-Tongued Word Wrestler instead of Wrester, which is a common-enough error that I’m blasé about it now. Update: Feexed!) (Source Link)

The Swedish/English cool stuff blog Smart Stuff gave Double-Tongued a very nice write-up in December, but they sent me an email about it just today. (Swedish version.) (Source Link)

Since I still get messages about them, I’ve reposted the technical support articles I wrote in 2003. They concern how I went about building a little one-man tech support practice here in New York City. They received a lot of play on Slashdot and a write-up in the Dallas Morning News, but more importantly, I’ve received many heartfelt “thank yous” from around the world. If I was still in the tech support business I’d expand these even further (and correct some of their deficiencies), but I handed off my last clients more than two years ago and now make dictionaries for a living. So, they are what they are.

Part one: Technical Self-Employment Is A Fat Paycheck Waiting to Be Pocketed.

Part two: With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility.

Part three: The Doohickey and the Thingy.