Strident renegade Starbucks bagel linguist Lynne Rosenthal says she'll never patronize Starbucks again.

LOL, oldie newspaper The New York Times is finally like "Derrr, we said 'hipster' 250 times last year, is that too much? Should we change?" Yea too bad we already solved that problem like one million years ago, LOL. [Pic]

Have you ever gone into a Starbucks and cursed their fake "Venti, Grande" size names? Sure. Gimme a "Large," amirite? And have you ever had police remove you from Starbucks for arguing about bagel-related grammar? Anyone? One lady has!

Someone in the newsroom this morning asked, "hey, what's MT mean on Twitter?" That got us thinking it might be useful to compile a list of common Twitter abbreviations. Here is what we've come up with so far.

After its executives were forced to listen to a US senator read the words "shitty deal" from a company email one million times, Goldman Sachs has decided to ban swearing via email. Whatever shall they do now?

After Sarah Palin "coined" the word "refudiate" yesterday and compared herself to William Shakespeare, the Twitter tag "#ShakesPalin" has been offering many more noble contributions to the Humanities, Refudiate.com is up-and-running with ads and T-shirt sales, and so on.

If there's one thing that's wrong with the English language, it's that there just aren't enough words. Luckily for all of us, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin invented a new one this weekend, and then compared herself to Shakespeare.

At some point in the last 30 years, left-of-center organizations eschewed the term "liberal" for the fancier-sounding "progressive," after the right wing had somehow turned "liberal" into a pejorative. Unfortunately for liberals, no one knows what the fuck "progressive" means.

Researchers found that some native English speakers were unable to understand the sentence "The soldier was hit by the sailor," indicating that grammar may not be "universal." FYI: It means the sailor (boats) hit the soldier (tanks). [Science Daily]

In order to avoid "colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon," the Times has banned the word "tweet."

The website Capitol Words measures how often our lawmakers say certain words. We've been through the archives and found a congressman mathematically eight times crazier than Michele Bachmann. Meet the undisputed champion of saying "ACORN," "Socialist," "Homosexual" and "White".

The Daily Beast appears to have published the most mixed metaphor of all time.

New York City, the "capital of language density in the world," may be home to as many as 800 languages—some of which will be extinct in 20 years. And you thought you were impressive for knowing French. [Photo]

"This is a big fucking deal," the Vice President said before President Obama signed the health insurance reform bill into law. Another classic Joe Biden "gaffe," which is when he says a truthful and often totally endearing thing in public.

While prudish America argues over whether ladies can even say "tampon vagina" on teevee, a hippie feminine product company in Mother England is fully engaged in promoting not only vaginas, but also Pootie Tangs, Fajitas, Flangivas, Vaginkles, and Anastasia Beaverhousens.

"For the first time in 22 years, presenters at the Oscars won't be using the traditional, non-competitive phrase 'and the Oscar goes to...'" Producers have scrapped the "gentler approach" to go with the more direct "and the winner is..." [Wrap]

Snoop Dogg has been banned from entering the UK for three years, because he used "insulting words" whilst being pushed around by police in Heathrow airport. One positive side effect: The WSJ now gets to translate the mysterious Snoop language.

The two most annoying phrases you can use around the office, according to a new survey: "Thinking outside the box" and "Let's touch base." [Reuters]

The idiotic "trend-tracking firm" that announced this past fall that New York had lost the title of "fashion capital of the world" has returned with another silly list. Global Language Monitor, which is based in fashionable Austin, Texas, says its "proprietary algorithm" has identified the "top 15 fashion buzzwords" of 2010, a list that begins with "Lady GaGa" [sic] and is followed by "leggings 2.0":

This list of how to curse someone out in 100 different languages should really come in handy if your travel plans will have you passing through security checkpoints at airports around the globe. [Buzzfeed]