Erin McKean Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Erin McKean quotes and sayings page 4 (editor). These are the last 4 out of 34 quotes we have.

“I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.”

“It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.”

“Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.”

“Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.”