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Word of the Day: Lawfare

Lawfare: The use of law as a weapon of war.

from subtopia

Learning

This one made the rounds while I was teaching English in Japan ...

Nice to ... ummm ... see it's still around.

Funny and totally not safe for work.

Hyperbolic

Running around screaming "Aaaah!!! Some of us may be mildly inconvenienced!" does not make good copy and doesn't sway all that many interested parties.

'Nuff said.

Would be funny though.

Word of the Day: Frakative

Frakative

A grammatical form used exclusively with pop-cultural euphemistic neologisms. It should not be confused with the frelling tense.

Words that can be found taking the frakative include frak, felgercarb, frell, dren, flarn, fard, fark, joojooflop, turlingdrome, swut, *beep*, shazbat, and Margaret Thatcher.

The Real Depends on the Virtual

A interesting article from airroots on how the real world is dependent on the virtual world. This virtual world being the abstract one of friendship -- connections that have no basis in the physical world through kinship, but rather operate on another plane. It makes an interesting argument that new communications technologies are not inferior to formal literacy and verbose communications systems, but rather a more accurate reflection of our own internal abstract interaction mechanisms.

A slightly different, and perhaps more anthropological, interpretation of "virtual" than perhaps many of us are used to.

1737 Thieves' Cant

Need to know how to talk like a thief 250 years ago ... well here you go.

Hmmm. "School" seemed to mean something else back then. Though you'll be glad to know some of the baser slang hasn't changed a whit.