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  • The Comprehensibility Test

    In a remarkably sane post about new words, editor John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun offers the following bit of wordly wisdom: [T]he point is not whether a dictionary has conferred legitimacy on [a] word; the point is whether the word is comprehensible and appropriate in context. Exactly. This applies...
    Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 08-12-2008
  • A Corollary to McKean's Law

    McKean’s Law (named after lexicographer Erin McKean ) states that “any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.” In the op-ed pages of yesterday's Globe and Mail, Laura Rosen Cohen wrote a tirade against buzzwords, clichés...
    Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 08-12-2008
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