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- Global pillory
- Thanks to global access, global connectivity, and global media saturation, global pillory is where you go when you are globally bad. Nearly a decade after he was brought low by the law and despite extensive efforts to raise money for research into prostate cancer, which he suffers from, Michael Milken remains in global pillory, both famous and ostracized.
Related terms: Age of Access, Evilution, Wrebels - Glossofacilia
- A tendency to use very large words to explain very small phenomena. Glossofacilia drives to complexify rather than simplify and is the natural instinct of reactionaries to an age of change.
- Glottochronology
- A linguist named Swadesh looked at the process of change in language in the 50s and invented the new term -- literally, the timetable of tongues.
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