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• The meaning of life

  
  Chris Priestley — Authority: 122
  I have spoken about book jackets many times in this blog. Writers underestimate their importance at their peril I think. A book jacket at its simplest level is just product information. It tells you what the book is and who made it. The blurb is a kind of ingredients list. All of that is important stuff, and it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unfriend: Not a simple verb by any means

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The New Oxford American Dictionary chose the verb "unfriend" as its 2009 Word of the Year (WOTY) and defined it this way: "to remove someone as a ‘friend on a social networking site such as Facebook." The word "has both currency and potential longevity," explained Christine Lindberg, Oxfords senior lexicographer on ...
  4 weeks ago

• ‘Unfriend’ as Oxford University Press Word of the Year: marketing ploy, (social) media hype

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  The word unfriend recently garnered the Oxford University Press’ Word of the Year recognition. Adrian Chen of Gawker realized that ‘the Word of the Year is a huge scam.’ He says that the past four winners are ‘all just hacky trend pieces from that year, in lexicographic form.’ To recall, the past four ...
  4 weeks ago

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