How ‘Flip’ Entered the Story of the Russia Investigation – Word’s history is tied to prosecutors, mobsters and novelists By Ben Zimmer Nov. 3, 2017 10:22 a.m. ET On Monday, court documents revealed that George Papadopoulos, a former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump, had entered into a plea agreement after his July arrest and had tried to cooperate with
Green’s Dictionary of Slang Comes Online By Jonathon Green Love the internet or see it as the devil’s playground, there’s one thing for which it seems the dream home: reference. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, all those thick, square tomes of yesteryear, in my case the three volumes that made up the 2010 print edition of Green’s Dictionary
ΣΛΑΝΓΚ! Εν πελλαμός! (συνώνυμο: εν πόμπα!) Έχουν γίνει ήδη τα αποκαλυπτήρια του! Το cySlang (http://www.cyslang.com/) είναι ένα πολυμεσικό διαδικτυακό λεξικό της κυπριακής αργκό, μίας από τις λιγότερο μελετημένες όψεις όχι μόνο της κυπριακής διαλέκτου, αλλά και ολόκληρης της ελληνικής γλώσσας. Όπως αναφέρουν και οι δημιουργοί του «η κυπριακή αργκό, που είναι στην πραγματικότητα μία εξαιρετικά
The totes amazesh way millennials are changing the English language By Jeff Guo There’s a way that young people talk these days, and it’s totes hilars. You see it on Twitter a lot, people exclaiming about their totes delish spags or theirtotes redic boyfs. Linguists Lauren Spradlin and Taylor Jones call this practice “totesing” — the systematic abbreviation (“abbreviash”) of words to effect
