Careful readers of the Wall Street Journal — a demographic that almost completely overlaps with crabwalk.com readership, I might add — saw this story about linguistic shifts in the meaning of “Shut up!”
Particularly careful readers may have noticed the second person quoted is one Erin McKean.
But only I would be in position to know Ms. McKean is, in fact, the same Erin McKean who was until its demise an active trader in the CD Mix of the Month Club. You never know what celebrity CD you’re going to get in the mail!
As the kids might say, mad props to her. Next thing you know, she’ll have morphed into the next Robert Thompson.
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I know where you are coming from on the Robert Thomson thing – in the UK, we had a series called “I love xxxx” (choose 1970 through to 1990 instead of the xxxx) people like Wayne Hemmingway, Johnny Vegas appeared out of nowhere and became TV/lifestyle critics. It doesn’t seem to take much to be an authority on something these days….
“It doesn’t seem to take much to be an authority on something these days….”
Yes, that’s true.