March 2009
5 posts
wordsyouhavetogoogleeverytime.com →
For distorte it’s redoubtable. For me it’s:
nonplussed
Googling it often won’t help you, though. In an dastardly scheme to nonplus the rest of the world, we Americans have begun to use the word in a sense nearly opposite its formal meaning.
“Writing is as vain as it gets. And if you don’t publish your stuff, it doesn’t...”
– Oliver Reichenstein
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