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Yours, Cold as a Noun...
...inordinate amount of time e-mailing and IM-ing friends, professors, and parents. The rate at which technologically-charged action verbs enter our vocabulary these days is staggering.What’s perhaps 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...
This is the face of “heteropresumption”—the companion noun of “heteronormative”—which is the gaffe of assuming the person you’re talking to is, like the vast majority are, a heterosexual...
...that long ago, blogs were one of those annoying buzz words that you could safely get away with ignoring. The word blog--it works as both noun and verb--is short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball...
...Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu who did justice to both the adjective and the noun...