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Twitter Links Won’t Count Against the 140 Character Limit — Mashable
If fancy words are so easy to look up, maybe the NYT should use more of them! — NYT
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See the update on the Mashable entry: Twitter links will still count against the 140 character limit (as was made clear on the Twitter developer mailing list).
In fact the change will make things worse for users of many services, such as is.gd, that currently have 18 character short URLs, because all the t.co links will be 20 characters.
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Re: “If fancy words are so easy to look up, maybe the NYT should use more of them! — NYT”
The correlation between the usage of these high-falutin words by the correspondents and the opinion pages is quite high: 82%
If you had put yourself through the GRE exam you would almost easily understand and use 100% of them.
My favorite: sui generis (recent reference was in Joe Norcera’s old Business column relating to The Wall Street Journal.)