mpg has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 0 lists, listed 0 words, written 7 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 5 words.
mpg has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 0 lists, listed 0 words, written 7 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 5 words.
Comments by mpg
mpg commented on the word schemata
In the computer science world, we use 'schema' all the time -- and if we two of them, they're almost always 'schemas'. The world would be a better place, however, if they were 'schemata'.
July 12, 2012
mpg commented on the word cyberhegemon
appeared in today's NYT:
"The comment, in a published interview with a government spokesman, was part of a broadside in China’s state-run press on Monday that cast the United States as a cyberhegemon, trying to dominate the global information flow by meddling in Chinese Internet policies."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/asia/26google.html
January 26, 2010
mpg commented on the word Theophany
I had always assumed this word was spelled "theophony", with a more specific connotation of "speaking to God" -- I've always had a wonderful mental image of a Theophone, a special telephone with a direct line to the Higher Up.
-mpg
September 3, 2009
mpg commented on the word paywall
A feature of a website that only allows access to certain pages or data to paid up subscribers taken from wiktionary
August 15, 2009
mpg commented on the word TITIVIL
Titivil: a devil whose job was to collect up the fragments of words or phrases that monks skipped or mumbled while they were reciting divine service
also: Titivil became a convenient scapegoat in monastery scriptoria. The inevitable little accidents that happen when copying manuscripts, such as jogging of elbows and skipping of pens that caused blots, false strokes, and ink smears, were also attributed to him
(taken from http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-tit3.htm)
August 5, 2009
mpg commented on the word ask
apparently ASK is now appearing as a noun:
An "ask" is a request made of a volunteer to do something. It seems to
be an increasingly common noun in activist circles.
taken from http://martinfowler.com/articles/obamaSoftware.html
August 5, 2009
mpg commented on the word treacher
example usage: "A Beautiful Blue Death" by Charles Finch, 2007 (fiction, mystery) -- exact page number lost, but I'm pretty sure it was between pg 100 and pg 200
August 3, 2009