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Erin McKean
Erin McKean
American Editor
Born: 1971
Could Language People Word Words You
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If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week. Erin McKean
You Together Organization Everybody Synergy Promoted About Week Could Talking Got How Just Donuts Mean Twice Twice A Week
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. Erin McKean
People Say Bad People Say Vocabulary Bad Thing Another Understand Shortcut Jargon Really Use Professionals Thing
Words take on many different meanings. Erin McKean
Words Take Different Meanings Many
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying. Erin McKean
Out Has-Been Bad Since Been Led Dying Aging Figured Ever
We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years. Erin McKean
Youth Young Restore Make Verb Least Been Years Again Meaning Using
If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging. Erin McKean
You Guess Considered Say Would Sunscreen Could How Anti Any Much Really Amount
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary. Erin McKean
Good Few Ways Very Dictionary Get Publicity
All language is a popularity contest. Erin McKean
Language Contest Popularity Popularity Contest
What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. Erin McKean
People Writing Reading How Interested English
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. Erin McKean
Words Will Job About Most Doing Them Then Noticeable Novelty Thing
It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend. Erin McKean
Time Fashion You Word Trend Looking Year Difficult Those Ripped More Pictures Like Look Hindsight Makes Real Years Years Ago Flannel Notice Choose Apparent Jeans Things
I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got. Erin McKean
Words Word Believe Every Think Our Would Recycle Demands New Environmentally Like Got New Word Event Conscious
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen. Erin McKean
Words Word Criticism Doubt Distance Run Would Hoping Risk Writers Arisen Perhaps Know None Real Unfamiliar Where Informal Hedge Themselves Creating Use Naturally Who
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them. Erin McKean
Today Words Space Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Thousands Print Because Dictionary Any Them
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid. Erin McKean
People Word Stupid Think Out Find Look Most Because Go Dictionary Want Means
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Erin McKean
Problem Words Word Easily Clarity Finds Objections Tend Like Annoying Verb Understood Motivated Friend Personal Taste Confusing English Deeply
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too. Erin McKean
Creativity Innovation Language Signs Power Twitter Too Other Entire Ecosystem Sites Just Interact Engine Showing Platform Extend Technological
You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet. Erin McKean
Fashion You Police Internet Invitations Limit Show Fashion Show Number
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition. Erin McKean
Love Day You Every Day Words Looking Reading Every Definition Know Most Learned Up Dictionary Them Use

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