Category: etymology
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Horde It Through The Grapevine: Neologisms in Game Genres
Pretending to have read Wittgenstein, I often bang on about how words symbolise ideas, whether coherent or incoherent, and how this association comes about. To explain that in more depth; videogames are excellent non-verbal communicators, alongside paintings, movies and sculpture. Words need to be coined for new ideas drawn from important common stimuli drawn from…
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On Getting Mullered
BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston Then there’s the plight of all those overseas businesses that manufacture cars in the UK. They’re being mullered by a massive contraction of available credit and a collapse in sales. (My emphasis) The premier journalist for these days of collapsing economies, Robert Peston, uses a phrase I’ve…
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