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Neologisms Gone Wild

2009-02-12 20:44:38.806603+00 by petronius 1 comments

Our headline of the week from the hyperkinetic New York Post: "Octomom Web-Beg". English may be a living language, but sometimes it needs a nap.

[ related topics: Current Events Journalism and Media New York ]

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#Comment Re: made: 2009-02-12 21:11:37.695083+00 by: Dan Lyke

Ahhh "The Eyes, The Ears, The Honest Voice of New York" (or, wait, was that The Daily News?)

The good news is that, unlike most topics where keeping track of follow-up news on a particular topic is a semantic parsing nightmare, the term "octomom" allows us to easily track subsequent events involving this woman.