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1. about 6 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   Maybe Daw-Dash?

2. about 6 hours ago on Lola

   I needed the Urban Dictionary for help with “flanging”.

3. 1 day ago on Back in the Day

   Help, anyone?

4. 1 day ago on Bottomliners

   You knew my Uncle John?!

5. 2 days ago on Baldo

   When floppy disks were invented we then needed the term “hard drives” which also needed formating, like the magnetic drums before that and even the stainless-steel magnetic tapes before that. That last takes us back to the days when all computers were called UNIVAC.

6. 2 days ago on Baldo

   i++

7. 2 days ago on Broom Hilda

   The corporation I worked for paid a $14M settlement to get rid of the jerk CEO who formed the company by an uncalled-for merger that nearly destroyed two good companies. Best investment we ever made.

8. 2 days ago on Bottomliners

   Wikipedia tells me Prager’s been divorced twice. Hardly seems extreme in the 21st century.

9. 2 days ago on Baldo

   My favorite dictionary (Amer. Herit. 4th Ed.) calls the figurative use of ‘literally’ a Usage Problem but recognizes it as a common intensifier. Intensifiers have a habit of taking on a life of their own. For example, few people now use “That’s terrific!” to mean terror-inducing. And in French an intensifier that meant something like “I stamp my foot for emphasis” turned into a grammatical rule that a negated sentence must include pas (step).

10. 2 days ago on Baldo

    Verbing a noun and nouning a verb are part of the strength of English. Otherwise nobody could walk the walk nor talk the talk. (Although I admit to being uncomfortable about the recent spread of sentences such as “That’s a mighty big ASK”.)