Words You Have Taught Me — Oct 2019
#11 — a Happy Birthday Mom listicle
Published in
6 min readOct 9, 2019
curated by Joe Váradi
The latest in literary lingo, journalist jargon, author’s argot and pencil pusher pidgin that I soaked up here since the last time we did this …
Eleven episodes, and well over 300 novel terms and acronyms to date.
Little did I know how little I knew.
agerasia
youthful appearance in an old person, but not through artificial means
from Peter Flom
antipodean
relating to Australia or New Zealand (used by inhabitants of the northern hemisphere)
from Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻
