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Unread 10-20-2015, 11:54 AM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Ann, I wouldn't regard the Urban Dictionary as authoritative. Many of its entries seem to have been written by kids who have just read the novel Frindle (about a fifth-grader who invents a new word and tries to get others to use it). And the definitions for words that actually exist often seem like a deliberately offensive version of Fictionary.

Example: Check out the winning definition for trigger warning, and scroll down to the competing definitions. Compare upvotes and downvotes.


BTW, people who are distracted by the highlighted search terms in Erato threads can trim the highlighting instructions off the end of the URL. E.g., Andrew's link above, with highlighting, is:

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showth...losophy+poetry

Trim the "&highlight=philosophy+poetry" bit from that URL, and you're left with

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=3747

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