You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet. Erin McKean fashioninternetinvitation Change image and share on social
If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging. Erin McKean agingamountanti Change image and share on social
Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because leotards aren't intimidating. Erin McKean fighthappenintend Change image and share on social
It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend. Erin McKean agoapparentchoose share on social
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. Erin McKean badjargonpeople Change image and share on social
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them. Erin McKean dictionaryhundredprint Change image and share on social
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. Erin McKean jobnoticeablenovelty Change image and share on social
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. Erin McKean englishestablishfood Change image and share on social
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid. Erin McKean dictionaryfindmean Change image and share on social
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too. Erin McKean birthedcreativityecosystem share on social