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Old 10-29-2009, 08:20 AM   #16
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Urban dictionary has editors? I never would've guessed after seeing some of the ridiculous garbage that gets listed there.
Ow quite so, the few entries I submitted to that site took weeks before they were accepted.

Of course, editor is not the same as preventor of sillyness. I rather think they thrive on it in fact.

That being said, I shall now go read on my Sony Touch, or go "touching" with my "device". Hopefully my partner will join in with her iPod Touch, so we can both be "touching" on the couch
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Old 10-29-2009, 08:26 AM   #17
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Ow quite so, the few entries I submitted to that site took weeks before they were accepted.
Do they require examples of real-world usage in order to be accepted, as, for example, Wikipedia do?
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It's a slang dictionary, but I don't think entries are researched very well, if at all. Most words have several entries submitted by the readers.

When the Sci-Fi Channel changed it's name to SyFy, people were saying that the new name was slang for syphilis. The Urban Dictionary has several entries to that effect but they were all posted after the new name for the channel was announced.
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Old 10-29-2009, 09:05 AM   #19
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That being said, I shall now go read on my Sony Touch, or go "touching" with my "device". Hopefully my partner will join in with her iPod Touch, so we can both be "touching" on the couch
Can I watch?
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I'm curious how the activity of "reading on a Nook" can have an "accepted" term, when the machine has not actually been released yet.
Exactly my thought and also that this is almost, but not quite as silly as that liesuseses stuff!
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Can I watch?
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UD will accept anything, you make it sound like there is an extensive vetting process.
Anything? You try submitting and see if it gets through. Most don't make it through the vetting process. Go head, try one and report back here.
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They do! The vetting process is by some kind of mysterious popular vote. Try submitting something and you will see how the process works.
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I'm curious how the activity of "reading on a Nook" can have an "accepted" term, when the machine has not actually been released yet.
Slang terms happen at the speed of light, HarryT.
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Do they require examples of real-world usage in order to be accepted, as, for example, Wikipedia do?
No, but examples of each definition must be submitted and they must make sense.
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Old 10-29-2009, 09:54 AM   #26
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So "booking" means reading a book?
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So "booking" means reading a book?
I was going to say that, but I couldn't Logitech the cursor over to the textbox fast enought to Aitchpee the words in. That and I'm a slow Optiquester.

Hmm. That gives me an idea for a new story. I was going to Pentel it down, but I can't. I'll have to Staedtler it, instead.
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I was going to say that, but I couldn't Logitech the cursor over to the textbox fast enought to Aitchpee the words in. That and I'm a slow Optiquester.

Hmm. That gives me an idea for a new story. I was going to Pentel it down, but I can't. I'll have to Staedtler it, instead.
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I was going to say that, but I couldn't Logitech the cursor over to the textbox fast enought to Aitchpee the words in. That and I'm a slow Optiquester.

Hmm. That gives me an idea for a new story. I was going to Pentel it down, but I can't. I'll have to Staedtler it, instead.
Good point.
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I'm curious how the activity of "reading on a Nook" can have an "accepted" term, when the machine has not actually been released yet.
especially as I have already heard kindle used as a verb quite a few times
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