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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Word Spy site
<br>  2. Big Tobacco; Missoury and Chicagou
<br>  3. Query: PREPONE
<br>  4. P.S. on PREPONE
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<br>Date:    Thu, 11 Jun 1998 03:25:16 -0000
<br>From:    Gareth Branwyn <garethb2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EARTHLINK.NET>
<br>Subject: Re: Word Spy site
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<br>>Date:    Wed, 10 Jun 1998 02:39:54 EDT
<br>>From:    "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>>Subject: He Got Game; Jesse's Words; McFedries' Words; Computer databases
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<br>>McFEDRIES' WORDS
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<br>>     Paul McFedries also has a word-a-day internet site
<br>>(www.logophilia.com/WordSpy/).  Maybe Jesse can tell me which site is
<br>>"hotter."  McFedries's site gets some hits because he's also the author of
<br>>some computer books.
<br>>     The site is called "Word Spy"--probably because "Word Detective" was
<br>>already taken.  Say, doesn't a "spy" look at other people's stuff and steal?
<br>>     Maybe Gareth Branwyn can explain this site.  Much of it overlaps with
<br>>Branwyn's work.  Who steals from whom?
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<br>I didn't even know this site existed before today. He obviously gets many
<br>of his terms from the Jargon Watch column with ever-so-slight changes to
<br>my definitions. NetLingo (www.netlingo.com) also uses many of the JW
<br>terms (with my definitions), as do several other "cyberslang" sites. For
<br>what it's worth, a number of terms and definitions in "Among the New
<br>Words" American Speech (Vol. 72, No. 3)--the ones apparently taken from
<br>an email message entitled "Re: Fwd: Cyberslang"--also came from Jargon
<br>Watch.
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<br>GARETH BRANWYN
<br>Jargon Watch editor, Wired
<br>Author of _Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati_
<br>Editor-in-chief, Street Tech ( http://www.streettech.com )
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