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Technology provides an unusually active laboratory for the study of linguistic innovation. Virtual Words consists of short essays, covering 28 recently coined words, that consider how words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why they succeed or fail.
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Jonathon Keats writes the Jargon Watch column for Wired Magazine, and has covered science, technology and language, as well as literature and the arts, for dozens of publications including the Washington Post, Popular Science, Scientific American, and Salon.com. He is the author of two novels, The Pathology of Lies and Lighter Than Vanity, and a story collection, The Book of the Unknown, and is the recipient of Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships. He lives in San Francisco and northern Italy.
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