The "green card" spam didn't coin the term, and it wasn't even the first "spam" -- though it was the first really large commercial one. My research shows the term goes back to the late 1980s and the "MUD" community. A MUD is a multi-user-dungeon. That's a somewhat archaic ...
First I would caution that I'm not sure the change was synchronous, that is, whether people really were going from [bended] to [bent] or whether both usages were extant and [bent] prevailed over time (the Oxford English Dictionary describes both forms occurring at the...
you could miss it.” Agility in TA means we need to stop guessing and be more data-driven in our decision-making. This means you have to stop using archaic measures like Time to Fill to understand talent acquisition.
I just want to preface this by stating I'm not sure if this would be better suited for the music stackexchange site, though I feel it's probably still appropriate here because my question mainly concerns identifying a term. Question: Is there a term that describes th...
“Death by PowerPoint” is a term relating to the intense boredom of useless PowerPoint presentations. Intentionally farting on a California prison guard can get you an additional 11 years in prison. Nearly every brand of hard liquor is vegan. Giving up alcohol for just one month can improve ...
+ The term here refers to the period in the historiographical sense, starting from Pan Geng who is traditionally said to have moved the Shang capital to Yinxu. The same term can also refer to the historical polity as the earliest known literate civilization in China, starting from Wu Ding....
tour of Greece, describes the run-down ruins of the site during the Roman period: In Nemea there is a temple of Zeus Nemeios worth visiting, although the roof has collapsed and there is no longer any statue. Around the temple is a sacred cypress grove. Here was Opheltes, put on the ...
the former President said.Footnote20For the former president, “superpredator” was still the appropriate term. Part of Herbert’s defense strategy was to characterize McDonald as a “superpredator.” By describing his expressionless face, indicative of someone with “no empathy” or “no conscien...
because i always am. i have a journalism degree and i'm a perfectionist, but i make allowances. the term, "weblish," is interesting to me. i think one of my pet peeves is unnecessary language like words such as "that" which is overly used. i give you thumbs up because you make ...
devote their energies to resurrecting the dead fathers rather than continuing the endless chain of procreation.Berdyaev specifically opposed the family as tying men and women to this- worldly concerns. Preaching sublimation without actually using the term, he also believed that wasting the male seed ...