"The Twitter Thesaurus: Gives You Shorter Synonyms"

[Dan Goodman]

On 5/22/2011 3:04 PM, Martin Kaminer wrote:
>
> May not be dialect per se but sure to have a powerful effect on the language
> if it catches on.
>
> "If you are a Twitter addict, or someone who wants to appear less
> intelligent than you really are, you may like this site. It is a
> =93word-shortening thesaurus.=94 Oh wait; using shorter words makes you look
> smarter, right? I don=92t know, all I know is that you=92ll fit more words =
> into
> your tweets, and that=92s all that really matters."
>
> http://www.bitrebels.com/social/the-twitter-thesaurus-gives-you-shorter-synonyms/

Much thanks for this!

I've posted that link to Twitter.



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