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When cutting-edge technology and incorrigible youth collide, language reinvents itself. Desperate British parents, take heart: you can soon reference Collins English Dictionary in order to decode what your teen’s “stunting” about being “shifted” really means. Of course, American parents can take refuge in any one of a number of online shortlists of SMS vocabulary, [...]

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Schadenfreude

The word suffers from overuse, in my opinion. Its fluid application to everyday life is a disease. (And I’m not sure which irritates me more: the fact that there are countless opportunities for one to claim Schadenfreude or that the word Schadenfreude so effortlessly captures one’s glee in others’ discomfort.) This love-hate relationship with the German [...]

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