http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/06/10/wordnik/ Interestingness, curated – picking culture's collective brain for innovation, inspiration & brilliant ideas Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/06/10/wordnik/comment-page-1/#comment-5042 Etl World News | WORDNIK. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:20:00 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2709#comment-5042 [...] and it’s now gone live (in beta) as Wordnik (great name). In the words of Maria Popova at Brain Pickings, “A crowdsourced toolkit for tracking and recording the evolution of language as it occurs, [...] [...] and it’s now gone live (in beta) as Wordnik (great name). In the words of Maria Popova at Brain Pickings, “A crowdsourced toolkit for tracking and recording the evolution of language as it occurs, [...]

]]> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/06/10/wordnik/comment-page-1/#comment-4899 Maria Popova Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:39:01 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2709#comment-4899 Ha, Dave, this is great. I was tempted not to fix it (although I had to, given it's a quote). Perhaps a fascinating cognitive slip after my brain had been processing the collaborative aspect of the project for so long. Ha, Dave, this is great. I was tempted not to fix it (although I had to, given it’s a quote). Perhaps a fascinating cognitive slip after my brain had been processing the collaborative aspect of the project for so long.

]]> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/06/10/wordnik/comment-page-1/#comment-4893 Dave Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:11:08 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2709#comment-4893 Unintentional typo in the pull-quote ("us it" instead of "use it") actually conveys an interesting notion, the idea of making a word everyone's, having it belong to "us." Unintentional typo in the pull-quote (“us it” instead of “use it”) actually conveys an interesting notion, the idea of making a word everyone’s, having it belong to “us.”

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