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Stowe Boyd is a well-known media subversive, and an internationally recognized authority on real-time, collaborative and social technologies. His new blog is Message.
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August 06, 2004

The Language Moves On

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Posted by Stowe Boyd

I see that technology terms are edging into the Oxford English Dictionary at a fast clip:

[from Yahoo! News - New dictionary makes room for baffling 'va-va-voom']

"Speed dating" ("an organised social activity in which people have a series of short conversations with potential partners in order to determine whether there is mutual interest") also makes the Oxford dictionary pages.

So too does "flash mob" ("a public gathering of complete strangers, organised via the Internet or mobile phone, who perform a pointless act and then disperse again)".

[pointer from Cheesebikini]

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