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<p>Molly Flatt <a href="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/rich-and-strange">investigates</a> blog-speak:</p>
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<p>Plenty of sites are now devoted to exploring the rich and strange world of Vocabulary 2.0. Collins has launched an online dictionary for &quot;netheads&quot; to debate net-influenced inclusions. NetLingo compiles the latest web words; Word Spy purports to practice &quot;lexpionage&quot;, or &quot;the sleuthing of new words and phrases&quot;; and the Double-Tongued Dictionary is dedicated to fringe, slang and street English. Traditional media outlets now publish guides for navigating blogspeak. Of course many net coinages are plain ugly, and I hate text and chat room acronyms (IYKWIMAITYD). But as a lover of Latin and Middle English, I understand most of these new terms as inevitable products in a pleasingly democratic etymological evolution.</p>
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