including orientation, cross streets, etc.

Well, yes. I do have to say, though, that the only time I've ever faced any kind of hostility in Korea was when I was acting irresponsibly. Of course, I'm largely moving in some pretty privileged circles, but we take public transit all the time and have never had a problem.

QFMFT

Sadly, I use almost all of these words fairly routinely. I don't like having a high fog index and I certainly don't like confounding people, but I do love that English very frequently offers the speaker or writer *just exactly the right word*, one for which there's no fully satisfactory replacement. Apparently, these are just the words that tend to confuse. Sigh.

This is mind-blowing stuff.

Via EGR. Nonpareil.

Ahhhh, tasty.

Oddball but super-interesting project.

Oh, great stuff here. "By the way, the next time you "cold-call" someone, looking for a positive outcome, you are speaking Polari."

Then again, "tragedy was a technology the Greeks developed to help them get over the pain the alphabet caused them."

On "jakeleg." You learn something new every day.

Again, the clarity to see the world as it is - with the notable exception of Jan Chipchase, a faculty I've found surprisingly rare in UX work

Wow cool.

Cathy Park Hong: Language Guide

Stavros: Deeper still down the rabbit hole

"[W]hat we’re seeing is a term that has been in active but inconspicuous use for the last 150 years suddenly bursting out"