fresh off the boat

[Michael Newman]

Actually, I was using  last year's WOTY in my Language in Context class (a 100 level class) in our lexicography unit. They then voted on their words of the year for 2010. The winner was FML, which just barely beat out, Facebook (v). So consider it a nomination, at least a contender for "most outrageous" category.


Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

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> In the NYC subway, they had to change signs at one station that indicated
> the FML lines stopped there.
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> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:12 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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>>> "FTW"
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>> Is everyone else also familiar with _FML_? Defined in the UD, where it
>> dates from '05, as
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>> "an acronym for Fuck My Life, but also the name of a popular website,
>> where people post their embarrassing stories"
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>> AFAIK, every college in the country has an FML site. I've browsed
>> among a number of such sites, but, sadly - though I once worked there,
>> I have no other affiliation with the WGU - IMO, HarvardFML is the
>> best.
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint t=
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>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> =96Mark Twain
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>> Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity,
>> or evil intent, we can uncumber ourselves of the impossible burden of
>> trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition
>> that we could be in error, without necessarily deeming ourselves
>> idiotic or unworthy.
>> =96Kathryn Schulz
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