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"If you’re a 19- or 20-year-old girl who is on the Internet, or who expresses herself in endless..."

“If you’re a 19- or 20-year-old girl who is on the Internet, or who expresses herself in endless journal pages like Amanda did, you may think you can explain yourself to the world if something goes wrong and you end up in the media spotlight. But your identity as a young, attractive woman does not belong to you. Amanda’s problem is that she thought she was a writer. She thought she was expressing herself. But in fact she was providing people with things they could cherry-pick to create her media persona.”

- Author Nina Burleigh on the Amanda Knox Trial - Read More on ELLE.com

"If you're a 19- or 20-year-old girl who is on the Internet, or who expresses herself in endless..."

"If you're a 19- or 20-year-old girl who is on the Internet, or who expresses herself in endless journal pages like Amanda did, you may think you can explain yourself to the world if something goes wrong and you end up in the media spotlight. But your identity as a young, attractive woman does not belong to you. Amanda's problem is that she thought she was a writer. She thought she was expressing herself. But in fact she was providing people with things they could cherry-pick to create her media persona."

- Author Nina Burleigh on the Amanda Knox Trial - Read More on ELLE.com

"L'esprit de l'escalier (or l'esprit d'escalier), usually translated as “staircase wit”,..."

“L'esprit de l'escalier (or l'esprit d'escalier), usually translated as “staircase wit”, is the act of thinking of a response, argument or clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it.”

- L'esprit de l'escalier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"L'esprit de l'escalier (or l'esprit d'escalier), usually translated as..."

"L'esprit de l'escalier (or l'esprit d'escalier), usually translated as "staircase wit", is the act of thinking of a response, argument or clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it."

- L'esprit de l'escalier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

taxiarch - definition and meaning

taxiarch - definition and meaning:

Ooooo I love wordnik so much ^.^

"argy-bargy (informal) a disagreement ranging from a verbal dispute to pushing-and-shoving or..."

"argy-bargy

(informal) a disagreement ranging from a verbal dispute to pushing-and-shoving or outright fighting."

- List of British words not widely used in the United States - Wikipedia, the… - StumbleUpon

20 obsolete English words that should make a comeback

20 obsolete English words that should make a comeback:

^____^ OH LIKE A KID IN A CANDY ROOM!

sapiosexuality Definition - The Unword Dictionary

sapiosexuality Definition - The Unword Dictionary

New York Times 50 Most Challenging Words

New York Times 50 Most Challenging Words :

Oh dear … you had me at Inchoate :D

"As reported by "The Guardian", the London exhibit will display a poem printed in 1867..."

"As reported by "The Guardian", the London exhibit will display a poem printed in 1867 which features a number of acronyms and abbreviations — the same used today when trying to overcome the standard 160-character limit of texting. Called emblematic poetry, the Victorian writing style combined letters, numbers and logograms. An example is the "Essay to Miss Catharine Jay", or better, "An S A 2 Miss K T J.""

- Victorian Poets Used Texting Lingo : Discovery News