Latest notable terms from this and last week’s Slate Culture Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page, which keeps a running collection of the terms from this series of posts). alternadad [SM, CG05-19-10] cowl [SM, CG05-19-10] detritus [DS, CG05-19-10] dint [DS, CG05-19-10] funereal [SM, CG05-19-10] […]
Latest notable terms from this and last week’s Slate Culture Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page). avant la lettre [SM, CG0-12-10] curated [DS, CG05-05-10] elegiac [CG05-05-10] frenetic [SM, CG0-12-10] je ne sais quoi [SM, CG0-12-10] sprezzatura [DS, CG05-12-10] valence [SM, CG05-12-10]
Latest notable terms from this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest and Slate Political Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page). august (adj.) [JT, CG04-28-10] callipygian [JT, CG04-28-10] slanket [JT, CG04-28-10] wheelhouse [DS, CG04-28-10]
Latest notable terms from this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest and Slate Political Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page). “at university” [JT, CG04-21-10] baleful [SM, CG04-21-10] cowl [SM, CG04-21-10] eponymous [Alice Tynan, guest from Australia, CG04-21-10] garret [DS, CG04-21-10] hidebound [DS, CG04-21-10] Johns Hopkins [SM, […]
Latest notable terms from this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest and Slate Political Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page). avidity [DS, CG04-14-10] épater les bourgeousie [Jodi Rosen, CG04-14-10] gestalt [JR, CG04-14-10] impresario [SM, CG04-14-10] inchoate [SM, CG04-14-10] malaise [pronounced “muh-lezz”] [CG04-14-10] nascent [JR, CG04-14-10] patois […]
I’ve been remiss on my duties… just busy at work. Plus there has been a lull in esoteric terms of late. But given my increasing renown (see My Bourbon and Cigar Entertaining Discussed on Slate Culture Gabfest), I better get back on the job! So, with that: the latest notable terms from this week’s Slate […]
This is funny. The Slate Culture Gabfest (just about my favorite podcast) had a contest for the best “conversion story”—where a listener would turn some friends or others on to the podcast. One of the entries was by Taylor Roesch, a documentarian. Coincidentally, Roesch interviewed me at my house a few months ago for a […]
Words I have yet to hear from the Slate Culture Gabfest and Slate Political Gabfest, but which I expect to hear any day now. Some taken from my list of Annoying & Pretentious Terms. I’ll keep an updated list on the main page. alarum antinomy apparatchik atavistic august (as in old) ballyhooed; much-ballyhooed; long-ballyhooed beyond […]
Latest notable terms from this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest and Slate Political Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page). efficacity [DS, CG01-27-10] recherche [DS, CG01-27-10]
Latest notable terms from this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest and Slate Political Gabfest (feel free to email me suggestions or leave them in the comments to the main page). Dana was the host for Culture Gabfest this week, filling in for Steve Metcalf; she did a great job. It’s become my favorite podcast, overtaking the […]
