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...said. Shields wrote his first song for a senior project in high school, and in the ensuing summer he wrote and produced a music video for his first real song, “Afroditi.” Since then, Shields has released two CDs on iTunes. An English concentrator, Shields said that a recurring theme in his songs is ambiguity. “Ambiguity is the new explicitness,” he said. But he noted that “Predator” is more straightforward than his other songs because it is his way of satirizing the creepy...
...Jillian J. Goodman ‘09, a Crimson arts editor, is an English concentrator in Quincy House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...feminists examining muliebrity (the condition of being a woman), or soothsayers putting out their latest vaticination (prophecy), the available lexicon may soon get slimmer. The lexicographers behind Britain's Collins English Dictionary have decided to exuviate (shed) rarely used and archaic words as part of an abstergent (cleansing) process to make room for up to 2,000 new entries. "We want the dictionary to be a reflection of English as it is currently spoken," says Ian Brookes, managing editor of Collins, "rather than a fossilized version of the language...
...Good luck with that. Here in Old Blighty, the birthplace of English, the dictionary's compilers face passionate resistance from language lovers who believe that any cull reduces the richness and variety that make language powerful - and leaves us all a bit dumber. "Newspapers are often accused of setting their reading level for 12-year-olds," one opponent wrote on an online message board. "Spare us dictionaries that do the same...
...words die hard - and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial. So they've offered the chance of a reprieve. They have made public 24 words that face deletion because editors could find no example of their use in their database of English-language books, newspapers, broadcasts and other media. If, by February 2009, a word reappears in that database with at least six "high quality" citations, it could be spared from the semantic dustbin. "We're looking to see if dropping a little stone in the pond of language actually does generate...