Oooooh crap did that guy’s leg just get Theismanned?That looked awful.
— Popehat (@Popehat) March 31, 2013
“Theismanned”? (That guy in question.)
Watching Duke/ Louisville my heart goes out to Kevin Ware.
— Joe Theismann (@Theismann7) March 31, 2013
(Subject line hattip, more or less. If you put “verbing weirds language” into Google, you can find the original C&H strip.)
Nothing to see here, just me being silly. And yes, it is true that I do my own stunts.
In the App Store,
the Apple App Store,
the Lion ships tonight.
(I actually don’t care that much. I’m planning to wait on Lion.1 at least, maybe Lion.2. But Lawrence and I were chatting earlier today and that riff came to me; it’s the kind of thing you only get to use maybe once in a lifetime.)
(This is kind of interesting. Especially for $5.99. I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but I have downloaded it: this BBC documentary sounds like it could be worthwhile. Download link.)
…”Baldenfreude”.
The NYT has at least two things going for it:
Put those things together, and what do you get? A list of 50 words most looked up by NYT readers.
Number one on the list? “inchoate”. “baldenfreude”, which is actually a MoDo coinage, comes in at #6. “Kristallnacht” ranks 13th. Heretically, “Manichean” comes in at #28.
The takeaway from this?
Still, we should remember that this is journalism, not philology.