Comments on: A Poptastic Geekfest for Infoholics http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Sputnik Marathon Connections http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-259412 Sputnik Marathon Connections Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:35:11 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-259412 [...] you’d like a slightly more professional article about mutant words, check out the 2007 OUP blog post by Ben Zimmer about the popularity of the ‘Frankenword’ pattern. March 22, [...] [...] you’d like a slightly more professional article about mutant words, check out the 2007 OUP blog post by Ben Zimmer about the popularity of the ‘Frankenword’ pattern. March 22, [...]

]]> By: The Joy (and Sorrow) of "Schadenfreude" : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-40841 The Joy (and Sorrow) of "Schadenfreude" : OUPblog Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:49:55 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-40841 [...] combining forms as -holic, -tacular, -thon, and -nomics, as described in my recent column, “A Poptastic Geekfest for Infoholics.” What’s also notable is that these new blended forms don’t really bother with [...] [...] combining forms as -holic, -tacular, -thon, and -nomics, as described in my recent column, “A Poptastic Geekfest for Infoholics.” What’s also notable is that these new blended forms don’t really bother with [...]

]]> By: Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-23432 Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles : OUPblog Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:49:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-23432 [...] The writer Tom Wolfe coined the phrase radical chic in a 1970 New York article, as a way to poke fun at the affectations of affluent liberals. That spawned a new phrasal template, X chic, and now we have an efflorescence of subcultural fashions. Topping the Corpus list are geek chic, heroin chic, shabby chic, retro chic, urban chic, lesbian chic, casual chic, cheap chic, cutie chic, and porno chic. One online wag has even combined the inner X and X chic templates, exhorting readers to “embrace your inner geek chic.” (That’s geektastic!) [...] [...] The writer Tom Wolfe coined the phrase radical chic in a 1970 New York article, as a way to poke fun at the affectations of affluent liberals. That spawned a new phrasal template, X chic, and now we have an efflorescence of subcultural fashions. Topping the Corpus list are geek chic, heroin chic, shabby chic, retro chic, urban chic, lesbian chic, casual chic, cheap chic, cutie chic, and porno chic. One online wag has even combined the inner X and X chic templates, exhorting readers to “embrace your inner geek chic.” (That’s geektastic!) [...]

]]> By: KR Blog » Blog Archive » Short Takes http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-20139 KR Blog » Blog Archive » Short Takes Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:11:54 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-20139 [...] What happens when two words combine to form something new? Something pretty linkalicious. [...] [...] What happens when two words combine to form something new? Something pretty linkalicious. [...]

]]> By: luca http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-19577 luca Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:17:44 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/07/geekfest/#comment-19577 Quite interesting. How does the Oxford Corpus keep track of spoken english? Do you have an army of typing monkeys with earphones? Do new ways of writing an old word count as neo-logism? Like, sms/chat abbreviations such as B4 or CU L8R? <a href="http://gufodotto.blogspot.com/2007/07/newsrotics.html" rel="nofollow">Innocent manual backtrack</a>. Quite interesting.

How does the Oxford Corpus keep track of spoken english? Do you have an army of typing monkeys with earphones? Do new ways of writing an old word count as neo-logism? Like, sms/chat abbreviations such as B4 or CU L8R?

Innocent manual backtrack.

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