Cool shabdhs
Updated On: 28 April, 2019 05:42 AM IST | | Rahul da Cunha
And so, every year into our vocabosphere trots along some new 'shabdhs'
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And so, every year into our vocabosphere trots along some new 'shabdhs' — 'shabdhs' that have one meaning in ol' Roget and Webster, but are used liberally by liberals, the literati, linguists, Lagavulin tasters, laissez-faire-sts, large fund managers, in other contexts — not millennial abbreviations like 'whatevs' or 'ossum' or 'bae'. But 'shabdhs' we've 'sunoed' before and ponder their meaning, deep in our subterranean consciousness, and we ask, why is this lexicon being used here?
Let me simplify, or rather contextualise.
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