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This is not the kind of thing I want to see while I’m in the middle of my grad school applications. Wah.
There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true.
— Ian Hart (via libraryland)
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The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford English Dictionary
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Citing usage from 1949, the OED calls this mark the dog’s bollocks, which it defines as, “typogr. a colon followed by a dash, regarded as forming a shape resembling the male sexual organs.” This is why I love scrounging around the linguistic scrap heap that is the OED. I always come across a little gold. And by “gold,” I mean, “vulgar, 60-year-old emoticons.”
If you look at the above definition, you’ll notice the typog. tag. That denotes entries relating to typography, which will be the focus of this trip to the junkyard. But if you find this exercise interesting, you can substitute just about any subject and find similarly fascinating results.
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Christopher D. Barth.
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