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.
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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