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Comment Re:It's A Dark Day For Oxford (Score 1) 151

by ugliness (#50960991) Attached to: The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji

Sorry but I cant resist responding to this (nothing personal).

How is it a dark day?

Hieroglyphs anyone? Kanji?

I can't really see a problem.
And I'm a 50+ white male, whose use of them is rather minimal.

English is an evolving language (and yes I hate the texting versions of words, for some strange reason I find that more annoying :) (see what I did there, precursor emoji :) (oops again, OK I'll stop now)

We are not the French, our language is not set in stone.
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People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year 160

Posted by Zonk from the keeping-up-with-the-joneses dept.
Ponca City, We Love You writes "More than twice as many Americans googled themselves in 2006 than five years previous — and many are googling their friends and romantic interests as well, according to a report released ecently by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The survey shows that the percentage of US adult Internet users who have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine has more than doubled in the past five years (pdf) from 22 percent in August, 2001 to 47 percent in December, 2006. Only 3 percent of internet self-googlers say they Google themselves regularly, 22 percent say 'every once in a while,' and three-quarters say they have googled themselves once or twice. The original report, 'Digital Footprints,' contains many more interesting observations (pdf)."

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