The On Language column in The New York Times Magazine is no more. Read Ben Zimmer's farewell column http://t.co/LGOX7HY6Xc and follow on Twitter @bgzimmer
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Hugo Lindgren of NYTMag replies to lexicographers abt end of @OnLanguage column: http://www.jessesword.com/Lindgren.html
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To On Language fans -- thanks for the notes. The column is not part of the mix for right now, but it is not dead. Please stay tuned.
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NYT readers, leave your comments on the final @OnLanguage column here. http://nyti.ms/OnLangComments
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I'll be on @WCBS880 at 12:20 pm ET, on the end of @OnLanguage and the future of language. http://bit.ly/erWF5W http://nyti.ms/futuretense
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Sorry to report that @NYTimes @OnLanguage has come to a close. Read the final column. http://nyti.ms/futuretense
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@bgzimmer chronicles a slow proverb reversal: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/magazine/20FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=1&ref=onlanguage
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Yiddish version of have your cake + eat it = "You can’t dance at two weddings with one tuchis." (via @bgzimmer in http://nyti.ms/ffPz1v)
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So "have your cake & eat it" was once "eat your cake & have it." What good is having cake you don't eat? @OnLanguage http://nyti.ms/eeT4HP
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NY Times @OnLanguage: have your cake and eat it, or eat your cake and have it? | http://nyti.ms/eeT4HP
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Spoke on WABC's @BatchelorShow about Egypt's tech-driven language of protest (begins 9 min. in the podcast) http://bit.ly/eVUsOf
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Man versus Computer NEXT!!! NYT Magazine ON Language Columnist, Ben Zimmer joins the show to discuss the future of Artificial Intelligence
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Read my piece in @NYTimesWeek: How the War of Words Was Won in Cairo http://nyti.ms/hbS3u9 With slideshow! http://nyti.ms/dO5XeG
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I'll be on @WCBS880 at 12:20 pm ET re how Egyptian protesters played with language leading up to Mubarak's ouster. http://bit.ly/gsiQzo
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Now on @VisualThesaurus Word Routes: Playing with Language, Egyptian Style (preview of my @NYTimesWeek piece) http://bit.ly/gsiQzo
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don't let yourself be man-up-ulated RT @OnLanguage: Tired of beer ads telling you to "man up"?…behind the macho phrase http://nyti.ms/htM9wG
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RT @PeterSokolowski "Idioms…like barnacles on…ship of language" @bgzimmer http://nyti.ms/heikqk //=fossilized metaphors http://bit.ly/icpZg2
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I'll be on @WCBS880 at 12:20 pm ET talking about "if worst comes to worst" and other odd idioms. http://bit.ly/fHxXg6
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"Idioms are like barnacles on the ship of language." Brilliant. @OnLanguage "worse/worst comes to worst" http://nyti.ms/heikqk
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Smashmouth has been decleated as a football term. @bgzimmer looks at today's favorite phrases. http://nyti.ms/h8z3YS