Words, Words, Words…
“Badass” is everywhere. It’s taken over the idea of “cool” as the desired social posture. And it doesn’t mean what you think it does.
Jesse Sheidlower is a lexicographer and former president of the American Dialect Society.
“Badass” is everywhere. It’s taken over the idea of “cool” as the desired social posture. And it doesn’t mean what you think it does.
The news that ‘New York’ will publish biweekly is a sad day for publishing. It’s also a sad day for English—‘biweekly’ means two very different things, and the confusion isn’t new.