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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on February 09, 2012
nanodrone (noun) an extremely small drone (unmanned plane) that resembles an insect Well, the robo-obsessed tweakers over at DARPA have such a program that hopes to reify an entirely brand new species of mechanical insects and nano-drones that could be used for any number of military operational purposes. (Submitted from the United Kingdom) Another very [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on February 02, 2012
partner betweenness (noun) a situation when a female partner comes between her male partner and his friends, which then causes problems in the male-female relationship. The study found partner betweenness undermines men’s feelings of autonomy and privacy, which are central to traditional concepts of masculinity. (Submitted from the United Kingdom) We’ve been talking quite a [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 26, 2012
takeaway (noun) an important piece of information to remember from e.g. a meeting or presentation The most arresting takeaway last October at the Frankfurt presentation was that adding “enhanced metadata” elements to a basket of backlist books not only stopped their normal sales decay, it reversed it and actually made sales of those books rise [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 25, 2012
We’re almost there, with just five more days of voting left. Over 23,000 votes have been cast in the last two months, showing love in abundance for the useful, entertaining (and sometimes a bit weird) English language-loving websites and blogs that are in the running. If you have been nominated, results will be officially announced [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 19, 2012
digitalist (noun) a person who understands digital media and is competent in using it … we do need to find people who love the art of writing but understand how it becomes meta data, and we need to re-train existing staff to be dedicated digitalists as they have been passionate publishers. (Submitted from the United [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 18, 2012
Nominations for the blogs and websites you love closed on January 15th. Now it’s time for voting. There are excellent sites to choose from. This is how the competition looks so far: World Wide Words winning with 2476 votes so far. English club 1st runner up with 998 votes ESL pod 2nd runner up with [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 12, 2012
content curation (noun) the process of analysing and sorting Web content and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme (definition source) Content curation has now come to mean the act of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a coherent way, organized around [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 12, 2012
With over 7,800 votes already cast and 69 nominees overall, the Macmillan Dictionary Love English Awards are off to a cracking start. But hear ye, hear ye: nominations close on January 15th at midnight GMT. So that leaves about 4 more days – depending where you are in the world – to ensure that the blogs [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 05, 2012
It’s good to see the number of nominated blogs and websites growing every day because there are so many fantastic ones out there and we like to see them acknowledged – as do you, I’m sure. Remember that nominations are open until January 15th, which leaves ten days to ensure that the blogs and sites [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on December 29, 2011
Just over two weeks left to nominate your favourites for a Love English Award. Who should you nominate? Looking back on the year, which website or blog has been the most useful, entertaining, informative for you in terms of learning English, or improving your English, or just feeding your love of the English language? A [...]
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