Comments | lexixanatos487: My nerd is showing

lexixanatos487

My nerd is showing

Aug 22, 2010 15:40

Word Origin & History
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1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (cf. K.G. for "no go," as if spelled "know go"); in this case, "oll korrect." Further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. Club, New York boosters of Democratic president ( Read more... )

fun stuff, memes

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artekka August 22 2010, 20:11:48 UTC

and someday our descendants are going to be like, "when we use the word 'own' to say 'win', why do we write it with a 'P'?!" And some English nerd is going to go research it. :P

lexixanatos487 August 22 2010, 20:37:18 UTC

So true!

artekka August 22 2010, 20:14:26 UTC

also: i did that "analyze your writing" thing three times and got three diff writers. lol Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Margaret Mitchell (whom I didn't immediately recognize and had to look up. lol)

lexixanatos487 August 22 2010, 20:38:08 UTC

Yeah, Craig got a bunch of different ones, too. I only did the one story. Who was Margaret Mitchell again? I don't think I've read anything by her... Cool on the other two though!

artekka August 22 2010, 20:59:36 UTC

i did three diff passages from the same work--Blue Feathers. Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind.

lexixanatos487 August 26 2010, 04:50:03 UTC

aaand that would be why I couldn't remember her...