OED Update + Metaphor + reCaptcha

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(1) The OED Accepts Some Familiar New 'Words.' Wall Street Journal, Mar 26, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576218912192800384.html
(LOL, OMG, FYI)

(2) Week in Ideas: David DiSalvo. Wall Street Journal, Mar 26, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704461304576216701734013390.html
(read only the third piece titled "Linguistics[:]  Metaphors Matter")

(3) Guy Gugliotta, Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Words at a Time; Scanning Programs make mistakes, and that's when we come in. New York Times, Mar 29, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/science/29recaptcha.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=gugliotta&st=cse
("What Web readers do not know, however, is that they have also been enlisted in a project to transform an old book, magazine, newspaper or pamphlet into an accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text file")

Note:
(a) woozy (adj, origin unknown): "having a soft, indistinct, or unfocused quality : VAGUE, FUZZY"  
www.m-w.com
(b) CAPTCHA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
(coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford (all of Carnegie Mellon University), a contrived acronym based on the word "capture" and standing for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart")
(c) In the print, there is a side bar to this report.

Guy Gugliotta, A Speech Lost in Digital Translation
, which prints out what optical character recognition software (OCR) read part of the last paragraph
a contemporary New York Times report about Address of John Brown as follows.

"I fear it lhas been stated by Of 1 bave this to them I never saw , and never hld a ot conversation with till the c *lay they C:IIII to me, and that for the I halve stated. Novw I have done."

The transcript actually said, "I hear that it has been stated by some of them, that I have induced them to join me; but the contrary is true. I do not say this to injure them, but as regretting their weakness. Not one but joined me of his own accord, and the greater part at their own expense. A number of them I never saw, and never had a word of conversation with, till the day they came to me, and that was for the purpose I have stated. Now, I am done."
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/john-brown-150/address-of-john-brown.html

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