more short takes

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 2 13:05:26 UTC 2012


thanks.

     VS-)

On 4/2/2012 7:33 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> Please check out the Winter 2011 issue of _American Speech_ for the
> latest installment of "Among the New Words," which covers neologisms
> related to Internet memes, including _facepalm_, _headdesk_,
> _banhammer_, _rickroll_, and many others:
> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/86/4/454.full.pdf+html
> We've got _facepalm_ going all the way back to 1996.
> --bgz

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