The New York Times: Hip To Be Square

The New York Times‘ Philip Corbett, who occasionally has the unenviable task of delivering such news as “do not use ‘Tweet’ as a verb” or “stop trying to make fetch happen; it’s not going to happen,” recently shared that Times writers have been abusing the word “hipster” and perhaps they should cut it out right now.

He writes:

We try hard to shed our old image as stodgy and out of it. Perhaps too hard, sometimes.

How else to explain our constant invocation of the old/new slang “hipster”? As a colleague pointed out, we’ve used it more than 250 times in the past year.

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