Tag: vocabulary
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English is often called a glorious mess of a language. Unlike languages that guard their purity, English has never been shy about stealing vocabulary from others. Why coin a new word when you can borrow (or outright snatch) one that’s already in use abroad? Linguist James D. Nicoll put it most colorfully: “The problem with…
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A Neo-Modernist Lexicon for the Post-postmodern Mind Since I’m building a whole new framework for myself in tackling topics in criticism, rhetoric, aesthetics, and philosophy, I decided why not make up some new words, too? Let’s see what we’ve come up with so far. This index of words created to try to name the currently…