Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
9%
2 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
61/100
The Sydney Morning Herald's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Old-time printers will know flong as a mould made from wet pulp, shaped by a metal stereotype then pressed upon the page.
asserted
printers → know → page
The inky mess shares its roots with flan, an industrial dessert ideal for producing script.
asserted
mess → share → script
Upstairs, away from the printers’ chapel, journos knew flong as any non-topical article used to bolster a slow news day.
asserted
journos → know → day
Unless you count the hellstorm of global news, the fuel crisis, the AI squeeze, Gaza, Ukraine, Trump.
asserted
you → count → news
Because everyone needs to untether for a moment.
asserted
everyone → need → moment
Haphazardly, I should add.
asserted
I → add → ?
Rather I sift a random double-page of words each morning, jotting down the novelties (like flong) I find in the Collins English Dictionary (2018).
asserted
I → sift → Dictionary
Dear reader, the treasures I’ve found.
asserted
I → find → treasures
Or petalism, a botanical variant of ostracism used in ancient Syracuse where the issuing of an olive leaf spelt a five-year exile to any dissident citizen – perhaps a practice we could revive in Canberra.
uncertain
we → use → Canberra
Dropping such words into conversation isn’t easy, believe me.
asserted
Dropping → drop → me
Saying stuff like “I love your ristra” (that chilli string you hang in your kitchen), or “Spider-Man is a stegophile” – one who loves to climb buildings, only for the chat to sputter for want of footnote.
asserted
chat → say → footnote
Traditional Finnish zitherers will know their instrument as a kantele while the rest of the world probably won’t care.
asserted
rest → know → world
Bar words nerds who can’t wait to meet a gytrash – a ghostly dog on a lonesome road – if only to put their vocab into action.
asserted
who → wait → action
Okay, so a Japanese abacus (or soroban), let alone a semainier (tall chest with seven drawers) won’t crop up in your nearest op shop soon, yet modern life may offer scope to mention epanodos: to return to the main topic after a detour.
uncertain
life → let → detour
Or talion: the eye-for-eye legal principle that the punishment should fit the crime.
asserted
punishment → fit → crime
Two pages a day – that’s the plan.
asserted
that → ’ → ?
From screeve (to write a begging letter) to scrobble (to use a listener’s musical preferences as a means of recommending similar tunes) before I can start breakfast.
asserted
I → screeve → breakfast
God knows what the overall handsturn will be, but the matutinal gratulation (morning joy) of meeting umwelt (the environmental factor that influence an animal’s decision) or chorizont (person who challenges authority) hasn’t dimmed.
asserted
who → know → authority
Some people choose power walking or Gilmore Girls to find their bliss.
asserted
people → choose → bliss
Whatever life hack can offset the noise for a beat is vital.
asserted
offset → offset → beat
For me, it’s racahout (acorn flour) with a bowl of macallum (ice-cream with raspberry sauce) for dessert.
asserted
it → ’ → dessert
- Language in the age of AI: Whimsymaxxing the apocalypse
- How card games shuffled the everyday language of sports
- TV or Not TV: our favourite two-letter word’s identity crisis
- Fifty shades of … what?
asserted
games → shuffle → what
The absurd quest to name colours
- How a regional Instagram account is recording the latest entrants in the Aussie lexicon
- Out of the box: The grammatical nightmare keeping me awake
- Are you using the latest slang or are you just reheating nachos?
asserted
you → name → nachos
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