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From Stephen Elliott
The simple fact that you are no longer an adolescent, shouldn’t mean that you are obliged to forgo the thrill of the sext. Thanks to Eva Wiseman, the techo-sexual generational gap has been bridged with her newly forged dictionary of grown-up sexting acronyms.
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About a year after the breakup, I started keeping a text message journal.
Last summer, we had a discussion here at The Rumpus about the worst words ever. Well, it turns out that for the last 35 years, Lake Superior State University has been doing even more: a “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.”
There seems to be some technophobia in the 15-word 2010 list, but I’m okay with that, because I agree that the words “tweet” and “sexting” are terrible.
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This is the face of the new witch hunter–Jim Plowman, the Loudon County VA Commonwealth’s attorney, who tried to prosecute an educator for possession of child porn when the educator was just trying to do his job.