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Kory Stamper
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Kory Stamper writes kory stamper, a personal blog at korystamper.wordpress.com about writing and culture. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Seeing Cerise: Defining Color”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Kory Stamper's lexicography posts, such as one on how dictionaries define colour names like cerise and taupe, and an introduction to her field. Commenters cite them as related reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
defining the words that define us
Most-linked posts?
- Seeing Cerise: Defining Color2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-22
What Hacker News says?
This blog article ( http://korystamper.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/seeing-cerise-de... ) by lexicographer Kory Stamper raises some similar issues about color names in English - how does one define "cerise" or "taupe" in the dictionary, when nobody can agree on what precisely they mean (where to draw the boundary). There is also the issue of how best to write the definition so that people can actually understand it. Web…
Comment linking /2012/08/07/seeing-cerise-defining-colors/
on “How we gave colors names”Submitted Down the “shithole”: why lexicographers need your profanity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA referenced article by the amusing Kory: https://korystamper.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/an-introduction... Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSuicGXil4
Comment linking /2011/12/19/an-introduction-to-harmless-drudgery/
on “Lies Murder Lexicography Dictionary (2012)”Submitted Seeing Cerise: Defining Color as a story · 1 points
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