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I Say Mendacity, You Say Mendicity

November 10, 2006 at 10:36 PM

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Mendacity—the condition of being untruthful—comes from the Latin adjective mendax, meaning “lying.”

Mendicity—the condition of being poor—comes from the Latin verb mendico, meaning “to beg.”

My first instinct, on hearing the two words, was to assume that they must have a common origin and have suffered from linguistic and semantic drift. But no! It’s the linguistic drift that’s brought them together.

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October 6: American University Colloquium on Scholarly Communication

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December 3: The Nuances of Threats on Facebook (New Yorker)

December 2: A record label says a Cox customer shared illegal files 54,489 times. Is Cox liable? (Vox)

Nov. 24: In Social-Media Era, When Is Free Speech Illegal? (Wall Street Journal)

October 24: Reversal of Fortunes: What a Recent Appeals Court Ruling Holds for Academic Fair Use (Publishers Weekly)

September 25: Facebook, OkCupid research raises new ethical questions in use of ‘big data’ (Baltimore Sun)

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The Cancer of the Internet, Jotwell

What to Do About Google?, Comm. of the ACM, Sept. 2013, at 28

Internet Law: Cases and Problems (3rd ed. 2013)