sticky rice n.— «“Sticky rice” is a gentle joke, and I can tell you with some authority that Asians who date their own race are not considered to be “settling” for something less than a White Man.» —“Re: Writing...
exformation n.— «A Danish writer, Tor Norretranders, invented a term for this in his book The User Illusion: exformation. Exformation is short for “explicitly discarded information,” the information you strip out of a message...
spokes n.— «I’m writing in response to “Losing My Sense of Humor,” who coined the word “spokes” to describe all the forwarded e-mail that she receives.» —“Couple lost gift list, but not...
brekko
n.— «Am going for brekko. Back in half an hour.» —“De ladding” by Lucy&Luke Relph BBC: Get Writing: A Forum Conversation (U.K.) June 13, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Great Barbecue n.— «The federal injunction to speed up the drilling on public lands is reminiscent of the federal government’s massive land giveaways to railway corporations as an incentive for building the Transcontinental Railway in the...
sonic branding n.— «Johnson says writing brand scores is his favourite part of sonic branding. “Writing a sonic logo for a massive company, that’s scary. Do you create a killer melody that can emotionally convey something in four...