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    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    My friend Yam says that soon the prompt will be "Sup?"
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    I can't believe no one has posted this yet. Hey Hey Hey!
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    What's Happening!! #blackthoughts
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    In over two years, I'm pretty sure that I never answered their original question, so I don't think I'll start now. (Whats wrong with "put tweet, here"?)
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    And here I thought "What's Happening" was an homage to Flip Wilson as Reverend Leroy.

    #Thechurchofwhat'shappeningnow
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    Run, run from the packs of wild twits!

    Hey... maybe you could ask David Crystal if Simon Johnson of the Basel-line Scenario blog, is Welsh?
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    Image of chris.eberly chris.eberly
    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    I love the word "discursive" because it means:
    1. passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
    2. proceeding by reasoning or argument rather than intuition.

    Which mean exactly the opposite things. Nevertheless, #idhitthat
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    11/19/09

    @chris.eberly:

    "Cleave" is another one of those words. It means both to split and to adhere.
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    11/19/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: There’s a joke about titty-fucking in there somewhere—or, at least, a cleavage-themed epigram.
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    Image of afterabe afterabe
    11/15/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    This is totally a white thing, right? #newyorktimes
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    Foster Kamer promoted this comment afterabe was starred afterabe was unstarred
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    11/17/09

    @afterabe: Mostly white, but yes. #newyorktimes
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    I think Americans are just suckers for the words with roots in French. Despite all the years of protestations they keep returning to them.

    A true patriot would say freedom irrigator. #newyorktimes
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    11/15/09

    @Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: #newyorktimes
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    11/15/09

    @VioletViolet: Which is funny because, if you think about it, the "worst" curse words sound more Germanic. #newyorktimes
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    11/14/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    Garfunkel and Oates get it right. #newyorktimes
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    I'm way more concerned with the magazine story on Megan Fox. #newyorktimes
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    11/14/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    You simply cannot go wrong with dick. #newyorktimes
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    11/14/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    Paul Krugman longs for the freedom to drop douche-bombs. You just know that he uses the word "douche" all the time in his off-blog life. #newyorktimes
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    11/14/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    Now that D-bag has been so mainstreamed I'm gonna lobby for bringing "f*ckwad" back into circulation. It hasn't been worn out yet and it can be effectively weaponized against D-bag ex-boyfriends. #newyorktimes
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    11/14/09

    @snugbug: I'm on it, fuckwad. (I mean that in the nicest way possible.) #newyorktimes
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    11/14/09

    @Cunning_Linguist: Straight-on, b*tch-ass! (I stole this one from NWA-era Ice Cube.) #newyorktimes
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    11/14/09

    In reply to The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
    On this site full of editorial types, can we agree that in the United States we spell it "gray"? #newyorktimes
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    snugbug promoted this comment quotidian was starred quotidian was unstarred
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    11/14/09

    @quotidian: True, except in "greyhound." The British "grey" is classier though.. #newyorktimes
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