New BuzzWord and article posts on Macmillan Online Dictionary
Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 21, 2009
‘The term Jade effect is a media creation based on an emerging productive pattern in English. The X effect, where X is a proper noun corresponding to someone in the public eye, describes a tendency for people to do a particular thing because they have taken inspiration from said person X.’
Poking, pimping and twittering — new words and online identity
‘Even more interesting from a neologist’s point of view is that Facebook™ users have attached very new and specific senses to familiar items of vocabulary.’
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