Urban Dictionary: Yuppie Food Stamps
february 2012 by rtlechow
"The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal.
We owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps."
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We owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps."
february 2012 by rtlechow
Ojibwe Dictionary
february 2012 by rtlechow
"The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is a searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers. It is also a gateway into the Ojibwe collections at the Minnesota Historical Society. Along with detailed Ojibwe language entries and voices, you will find beautiful cultural items, photographs, and excerpts from relevant historical documents. Whenever possible, we provide examples of documents in the Ojibwe language."
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february 2012 by rtlechow
Pop!Tech Words! - Dictionary Evangelist
august 2011 by rtlechow
First off, the winner: -- attachmeant -- the file you have to resend because you forgot to attach it the first time. (from Julie Meyer) Tied for second and third were: -- polydundant -- of a phrase that is redundant through the use of words from two or more languages that have the same meaning, e.g., Panera Bread Company. (from Annaliese Hoehling) -- pretoxicated -- the state in which sufficient alcohol has been consumed to be intoxicated, but before feeling intoxicated. (from Tierney O'Dea) Some other favorites from the workshop ... -- forblogen -- unsuitable or unavailable to be blogged about, "don't post about our new beta, it's still forblogen." (Also Julie. :-)) -- techumanitarian -- someone who uses technology to promote social good. (from Michelle Riggen-Ransom, a Pop!Tech blogger -- she should know, right?) -- sustetic -- achieving sustainability through aesthetics (i.e., the object is so beautiful you don't want to throw it away, you want to reuse it). (from Jens Martin)
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english
language
neologism
august 2011 by rtlechow
Unsuck It
august 2010 by rtlechow
"What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked?"
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communication
corporate
english
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bullshit
august 2010 by rtlechow
Qglic
may 2010 by rtlechow
"Qglic is phonetic, typeable, and compact. If you're like many English speakers, Qglic renders the sounds of your speech with greater fidelity than you've ever seen in writing before. And though it's typed with the same twenty-six letters as the leading style of written English, Qglic is on average just six-sevenths the length!"
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qglic
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may 2010 by rtlechow
E-Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2010 by rtlechow
"E-Prime (short for English-Prime) is a form of the English language from which the verb to be in all its forms is avoided by the writer or speaker. Thus, E-Prime does not contain the words "be", "is", "am", "are", "was", "were", "been" and "being", nor does it contain their contractions "'m", "'s", and "'re". E-Prime therefore re-phrases most statements which use the passive voice, thus encouraging writers and speakers to clearly state an action's agent.[1] E-Prime can be based on any dialect of English."
english
language
wikipedia
march 2010 by rtlechow
ETAOIN SHRDLU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
november 2009 by rtlechow
ETAOIN SHRDLU is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most commonly used letters in the English language, best known as a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing due to a custom of Linotype machine operators.
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english
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november 2009 by rtlechow
Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers
reference tools free culture community language web2.0 education resources learning social guide dictionary english travel words audio linguistics translation sound pronunciation speech
november 2008 by rtlechow
reference tools free culture community language web2.0 education resources learning social guide dictionary english travel words audio linguistics translation sound pronunciation speech
november 2008 by rtlechow
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