NYT on coining Web terminology

[Neal Whitman]

Regarding the quotation from me in the article: I'm glad that the reporter
put in my statement that semantic change in words has been happening all
along. However, I did not claim that it was happening faster because of the
Internet (though maybe it is); what I said was that the specific causes of
change varied across times and places, and that here and now, the Internet
was one of the causes. But I guess as distortions go, it's not as bad as it
could have been, given some of what Mark Liberman has complained about on
Language Log.

I also referred her to Ben Zimmer and Nancy Friedman.

Neal

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