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Cool linguistic things!

simu · 2007-02-25 01:33:31

After years of being annoyed of the prevalence of these things in newspaper headlines, I found out today there's a name for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone Well, it's not an official word yet as it was only suggested by some blogger but it's taking off online. Cool, no? Does anyone else have any cool…

25-02-2007 02:33AM

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After years of being annoyed of the prevalence of these things in newspaper headlines, I found out today there's a name for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

Well, it's not an official word yet as it was only suggested by some blogger but it's taking off online.

Cool, no?

Does anyone else have any cool linguistic stuff to share?

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The Babelizer is kinda fun. Well, for a few minutes, anyway...:o

_ small safeguard of Babelizer est _ during the receiver of paper of determin very small you, all the rectangle _

If nothing else, it will reassure translators everywhere that they're not about to be replaced by a software package just yet!

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