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...most peculiar about these verbs, however, is that the majority of them seem to come from nouns. Sometimes it’s the name of a company—surely Google’s marketers are happy that their firm’s name has seeped into the common lexicon (though the company’s lawyers have been known to send out nasty letters to those who use the word publicly without an obvious reference to the search software giant, in order to protect their trademark). Occasionally it happens because the noun already had a verb embedded...
...hop“The Wu-Tang Manual,” written by the RZA, reveals the diverse inspirations for his philosophy and art—the nine chapters are called spirituality, martial arts, capitalism, comics, chess, organized crime, cinema, chemistry (read: drugs), and Wu-Slang Lexicon. There is no one like this man working in entertainment today.The Crimson interviewed the self-described “organizer, producer, and mastermind of the Wu-Tang Clan,” because he is promoting “Derailed,” the trashy new Clive Owen-Jennifer Aniston flick, in which he plays...
...above unlock some of the secrets of the new lingo, as well as providing glossaries of longer established slang. "The chief components of slang are sex, money and intoxicants," says Jonathon Green, who compiled the latest Cassell's. It used to take years for such words to enter the lexicon, he adds, but "through hip-hop and the Internet, words travel so fast that white middle-class boys and girls in London are talking like black kids in the ghettos of Harlem and Compton." The speed with which Blinglish expressions are coined may signal disappointment for bofs (old people) trying...
What Hollywood couldn't ignore it would try to co-opt. The year was 1967, the films Bonnie and Clyde (whose script was originally offered to Godard) and The Graduate (with its jazzy ransacking of the European film lexicon), and soon American directors had the auteur status that had been the exclusive province of foreigners. Then U.S. films got gamier, porno went legit, and the raincoat brigade didn't have to take its sex in Swedish...
...Romance languages and literature concentrator in Leverett who only recently realized “romance” did not refer to the lexicon of love. She likes dancing, wishes she were European, and hates checking voicemail. Her column, “Blushing Crimson,” taps in on campus trends and roots out the traditions that explain them on alternate Thursdays...