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Alert the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary. We have a new word in the esteemed family of English language words. The word twisp is here to represent Twitter's influence on language.
It's a purposeful linguistic defect practiced by millions of Twitter users and the unfortunate journalists and bloggers who write about Twitter, tweets, tweeters and the Twitosphere.
By the way, you can follow me, Eric, on Twitter: @tweric
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Bleric, or Eric Matas, obviously likes writing and playing with words (like combining blog + Eric, which just so happens to be called a portmanteau, FYI).
Eric works in corporate training as an elearning specialist. He has taught writing in one form or another since 1998 after completing his master's in English. He writes for and edits several blogs and websites including eLearning Weekly.
Eric is half Irish, half geek, half teacher, and half super hero. So, he spends his days fighting software to create elearning that saves the world.
He also loves to procreate and just celebrated his fifth child's (Maxwell Eliot) first birthday. Max joined big sister, Brooklyn, big brother, Kyan, and the twin big brothers, Alex and Aiden. Eric can be found on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, and at various locations in Minneapolis by playing FourSquare.
