Paul Suarez, PC World
Jun 12, 2010
Apparently some of us journalist/blogger types have been throwing certain social media terms around willy-nilly before they’ve made their way into standard English. According to The Awl, Phil Corbett, standards editor at The New York Times has had…
This is a joke. These days we’re so worried about public acceptance, we neglect practicality. We call them ‘tweets’ because, really, what else would we call them? I suppose we could say, “A message shared on the Twitter.com website” since according to Corbett anything that hasn’t yet made it into Webster’s is mere degenerate slang. But that would be a little redundant, especially if you had to make a tweet reference multiple times in an article…
Thoughts?
