Terms That Are Definitely Not Endearments
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The director James L. Brooks emerges from a painful divorce with "Spanglish," a personal film in which cultures clash over about marriage, children and human frailty.
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Don't arch your brow. It isn't as scandalous as you thoughtÂ
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If you're looking online for a sweetheart, beware: You may find a new meaning for the expression "money can't buy love."
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The results are in, but what they mean is by no means settled.
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Examples of buzzwords that make IT unintelligible.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Anisotropy--there's a word you don't hear everyday
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There's no shortage of people playing dirty tricks, or just being plain annoying, online. Here's a taxonomy to help you sort them out
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Chewing gum, homosexuality, public protests... the list of things frowned upon is long in Singapore. But satire? Yes, that too. Seriously.
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LONDON -- A teenager is forbidden to say &quot;grass.&quot; A great-grandfather is banned from being sarcastic. And two record companies are told not to put up advertising posters.
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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A few things you may not have caught in last week's news.
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These names aren't likely to spring to mind.
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What's in a word? Maybe more than you think.
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âBundlingâ sounds sweet, doesnât it? Like swaddling a baby. But donât let it fool you â the communications version of it is not such a simple pleasure.
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Also: Dating faux-pas: Stealing other people's profiles. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Boston - A four-letter term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media during this year&#39;s presidential campaign tops United States dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.