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Podcasting Officially a Word
goldseries writes "The BBC is reporting that the New Oxford American Dictionary is
adding podcasting to the dictionary. A year ago it was rejected because not enough people were reading it, but, in a ode to the speed of technology's growth, it is being declared the word of the year. Podcasting has been in the Oxford Dictionary of English since last summer. Podcast beat out words such as lifehack and rootkit for inclusion in the dictionaries. I guess no one needs to know what a rootkit is."
The reason for this was that I pwnz3d their systems with a trojaned podcast and installed a rootkit, then began spearphishing the researchers to obtain the necessary details to forge submissions. The result of this lifehack was that I was able to unfairly influence the dictionary - not only could they not detect the rootkit, they couldn't even list the word in their lexicon ;-)
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Because being cautious and circumspect about not including faddish new words doesn't get you free puff pieces masquerading as news articles.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
I see no reason to litter my language with advertisements for what I maintain is a poor product (runs on proprietary software, lacks important features, remarkably expensive, Apple's terms of service with iTunes—what is commonly used with an iPod—change after the purchase).
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