It's Official: NOAD Demeans Self for PR Gold

[Ronald Butters]

There is perhaps a certain truthiness to these arguments that attack NOAD for political pandering and publicity hounding, but (unreconstructed antipolitical-correctness liberal that I am) I'm not sure that this is too different from the ADS embracing of a certain comedian's neologism as Word of the Year a few Januaries ago.


On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Alison Murie wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> JL
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>> truth."
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> This is just too nautiating for words.
> AM
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