even more NOOOOOO!!!!!

New words

New initialisms in the OED

OMG and LOL, FYI

For the March 2011 release of OED Online, we have selected for publication a number of noteworthy initialisms—abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of a name or expression. Some of these—such as OMG  [OMG int. (and n.) and adj.]: ‘Oh my God’ (or sometimes ‘gosh’, ‘goodness’, etc.) and LOL  [LOL int. and n./2]: ‘laughing out loud’—are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications (email, texting, social networks, blogs, and so on). They join other entries of this sort: IMHO (‘in my humble opinion’) [IMHO at I n./1], TMI (‘too much information’)  [TMI at T n.], and BFF (‘best friends forever’) [BFF at B n.], among others.

Of course in such a context initialisms are quicker to type than the full forms, and (in the case of text messages, or Twitter, for example) they help to say more in media where there is a limit to a number of characters one may use in a single message. OMG and LOL are found outside of electronic contexts, however; in print, and even in spoken use (see, for example, the 2003 quotation for LOL int.), where there often seems to be a bit more than simple abbreviation going on. The intention is usually to signal an informal, gossipy mode of expression, and perhaps parody the level of unreflective enthusiasm or overstatement that can sometimes appear in online discourse, while at the same time marking oneself as an ‘insider’ au fait with the forms of expression associated with the latest technology.

As such usage indicates, many people would consider these recent coinages, from the last 10 or 20 years, and associate them with a younger generation conversant with all forms of digital communications. As is often the case, OED’s research has revealed some unexpected historical  perspectives: our first quotation for OMG is from a personal letter from 1917; the letters LOL had a previous life, starting in 1960, denoting an elderly woman (or ‘little old lady’; see LOL n./1); and the entry for FYI  [FYI phr., adj., and n.], for example, shows it originated in the language of memoranda in 1941. (http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/blog/oxfordwords-blog)

 BAH!!!

I am turning into a curmudgeon:  

curmudgeon /  k:'md()n/

→ n. 
a bad-tempered or surly person.
- DERIVATIVES curmudgeonliness n.  curmudgeonly adj. 
- ORIGIN C16: of unknown origin.  (OED Source)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't handle the break-up with the OED... must I endure this, if we are to stay together????: 

♥ to heart
The new sense added to heart v. in this update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of T-shirts and bumper-stickers. It originated as a humorous reference to logos featuring a picture of a heart as a symbol for the verb love, like that of the famous ‘I ♥ NY’ tourism campaign. Our earliest quote for this use, from 1984, uses the verb in ‘I heart my dog’s head’, a jokey play on bumper stickers featuring a heart and a picture of the face of a particular breed of dog (expressing a person’s enthusiasm for, say, shih-tzus) which itself became a popular bumper sticker.  From these beginnings, heart v. has gone on to live an existence in more traditional genres of literature as a colloquial synonym for ‘to love’.
(http://www.oed.com/public/latest/latest-update#)

 A symbol to replace a word?!?!?! NO. No. No. and just because it is a faux-verb, is no reason to put it in. I can't even imagine what the lobby for the next symbol is. I hope all you semiotics types are happy now :P  
 

best insults...EVER

There are many insults in the Shakespeare canon, but none make me smile like those from Richard III. 


Of my favorites is: Dost grant me, hedgehog? (I, ii, 280)  Just think of it.  this could replace "I know you are, but what am I?" in colloquial speech, if we just start using it.


But what of the hedgehog??? Why is that such an insult?  Specifically, when Lady Anne is hurling some of the finest insults in early modern English, she is hurling them at that "..diffused infection of a man" (I, ii, 253): Richard.  Ricard's coat of arms contains a red wild Boar...which is a pig...which is hog. So reducing him from a charging boar to a porcupine (porc, taking from the Latin, porcine: pig) is degrading. More than that, it is freaking hysterical, especially if one considers what a lame hedgehog looks like: 

not to mention: 

From Monty Python's Flying Circus

One heck of a catchy tune

"Daft Punk is Playing at My House"  

...you got to set them up..

Catchy "chorus" gets stuck in my head (*), in my head@ 01:12.

(*) Stuck in my head, thanks to JQ a/k/a "Thing 2"  

Misplaced: One Brain

Last seen spewing diatribe against DH Lawrence.  Brain may have become lost when watching videos about Earth's magnetic field. 

If found, approach slowly, then contact owner: liquidiamonds9@gmail.com  

Bringing Skeksi Back!

I found it! <<<<click the link so you can find it too!

Common Sense

The blood of founding father, Thomas Paine, has made it into my child's blood.  I don't like talking politics on my blog, but this article from October 2010 gives one much to consider - like why the GOP is being hijacked by the social conservatives who want to stop time at 1955?