Slang a la the NYT

[Dave Wilton]

I don't see any problem with Stamper's article. It's basically just a piece that highlights the problem of the recency illusion, i.e., just because a term is in vogue, doesn't mean it's new. I haven't checked her specific claims, but none of Stamper's examples seem wrong on their face.

And in this case, the op-ed is written by a real lexicographer, someone with training and expertise in the field, not by some journalist who half remembers some lesson his eighth-grade English teacher taught him. As far as newspaper articles that address language go, this is one of the better ones.



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Subject: Re: Slang a la the NYT

>  someone can simply pull bullshit out his ass and get it
published in the NYT,

Brace yourself, man.

It ain't just the NYT....

JL

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> [T]he word =E2=80=9Cdude=E2=80=9D predates the Dude of =E2=80=9CThe 
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> Lest anyone waste his running it down to me, no, I'm not serious. I'm 
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> published in the NYT, even when it has nothing to do with politics.
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