So, given that the word of the year is an emoji, what might that mean for keyboards? You may be sorry you asked. ‘finally, a keyboard that speaks your language’ https://youtu.be/Hvm3B6kXPK0
So, given that the word of the year is an emoji, what might that mean for keyboards? You may be sorry you asked. ‘finally, a keyboard that speaks your language’ https://youtu.be/Hvm3B6kXPK0
It’s pretty much all over the internet that the Oxford Dictionary have selected the emoji (a pictograph – picture image used in text messaging) “Face with Tears of Joy” as their word of the year for 2015. There must be an irony in the choice that I’m missing, and real words pretty much are failing …
The Oxford Australia blog selects ‘schmick up’ (verb: to smarten (something) up; to renovate (something); to improve (something) superficially) as its word for the month of November. The post reports that the adjective schmick has undergone the contemporary fashion of being verbed and nouned, in this case with the addition of ‘up’ (thankfully we’ve been …
Two articles. The first deals with nine words that have so commonly changed to new meanings that even language pedants are likely to have adopted the new meanings. Think sodden means saturated? Not originally. The second provides seventy-five incorrectly used words. These are situations where the user mistakenly selects a word that doesn’t really mean …
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