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Redefining 'Hot': The Dictionary
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 12.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | social media, word/writing
Summary | Dictionaries have entered the sphere of social media. They are marking presence with 'word-of-the-day-tweets' and thereby often reflecting on the political climate of the day. Though they claim to be apolitical, many such dictionary posts are criticized for being biased comments on politics, for instance when Trump's tweets are used to exemplify the word 'paralogize' (to draw conclusions from unrelated evidence). The internet and social media have revolutionized dictionaries in enabling them to conduct empirical lexicography since they are now provided with never-ending data to show them new commonly used words in context. Some new dictionary entries even use GIFs to illustrate the meaning of new words like for the word 'facepalm'.
Image Description | Cartoon about 'discarded books'.
Why Handwriting Is Still Important
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 31.8.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | childhood, texting, word/writing
Summary | People are outraged after a journalist claims that handwriting is becoming a useless skill. Opponents are referencing instances where writing is unavoidable, such as signing a legal document, or is more appropriate, such as writing love letters or letters of condolence. Learning to write longhand is also very important for children to develop various skills.
Image Description | Black and white staged photograph from Getty: hand holding a pen and writing on a piece of paper.
Image Tags | hand(s)
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