Confusing words in the NY Times
I am in big trouble. I understand very few of the words.
"If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a reason to be sanguine: The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary."
I got the link from CSMonitor.com
These are the words people click on most.
1 sui generis
2 solipsistic
3 louche
4 laconic
5 saturnine
6 antediluvian
7 epistemological
8 shibboleths
9 penury
10 sumptuary
11 schadenfreude
12 peripatetic
13 abstruse
14 parlous
15 enervating
16 adenoidal
17 feckless
18 solipsism
19 ersatz
20 fealty
21 sanguine
22 sartorial
23 hagiography
24 pandemic
25 hagiographic
26 dauphin
27 antebellum
28 paroxysm
29 risible
30 interlocutor
31 swine
32 apotheosis
33 comity
34 Atreus
35 banal
36 profligacy
37 Sisyphean
38 inchoate
39 apoplectic
40 neologisms
41 bildungsroman
42 peroration
43 fungible
44 recondite
45 bonobo
46 phlogiston
47 contretemps
48 appurtenances
49 glut
50 fecklessness
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I would take the site at
I would take the site at face value, that "the Nieman Journalism Lab is a project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University."
So how does a malformed domain work? How can I get there, and more importantly why does ever page at that site have the same URL? How does that work?
Getting back to the article and the NYT, I only use the Times' look up feature when I am stuck using some inferior browser. In Firefox when you highlight the word it will Google it.
http://www.whois.net/whois/ow
http://www.whois.net/whois/ow.ly shows ow.ly domain as "malformed". While it appears to work, we don't know who owns the site.
Petey