Taxonomy

An expansion invented after the fact to fit letters that already existed as a word or acronym.

Coordinated action toward a shared goal, and the free-rider problem that makes it hard.

Large-scale production coordinated by modular tasks and volunteer contribution rather than price or hierarchy.

A shared vocabulary of tokens, primitives, and rules that makes independent work converge.

A substitution that reanalyzes a phrase into a different but still-plausible meaning.

Narrative carried by placed objects and world state rather than dialogue, completed by the audience's inference.

A recurring character reduced, across a long run, to a single exaggerated trait.

A metadata block at the top of a text document, separated from the body by delimiters.

A noun classification system that forces agreement across a sentence and correlates only loosely with meaning.

How information is organized, labeled, and navigated so people can find what they need.

A pedestrian offense whose 1920s American origins are widely read as an effort to shift blame for road deaths onto pedestrians.

Information modeled as entities and the typed relationships between them.

Making a system countable and administrable, at the cost of the local knowledge that made it work.

Folding, slitting and sealing a letter so the sheet becomes its own tamper-evident envelope.

The hypothesis that language shapes thought, and the evidence that has narrowed it considerably.

A blend of two idioms into a third, and the family of errors that reveals how fixed phrases are stored.

a placeholder identifier chosen to carry no meaning of its own.

A misheard phrase reanalyzed into something else that still makes sense, most often from song lyrics.

A threat to social values amplified by media past any proportion to actual harm.

Choosing identifiers so the code states its own meaning without commentary.

A good whose value to each user grows as more people use it.

Tolerance and withdrawal are pharmacological adaptations, distinct from addiction and from harm.

Categories are organized as graded resemblance to a best example rather than defined by necessary and sufficient conditions.

Tenants collectively withholding rent to force negotiation with a landlord or policymaker.

Most of what is called taste is smell arriving at the receptors from the back of the mouth.

A word repeated aloud until it briefly stops registering as meaningful.

A pronunciation or usage that reveals group membership, historically used as a test with lethal stakes.

A cliché reduced to a reusable template with swappable slots.

The informal norms communities use to manage narrative disclosure around games still being played.

A 78-card symbolic system used for narrative interpretation, and a well-structured combinatorial vocabulary.

A constrained set of type sizes and their paired line heights and spacing.

A note-taking method built on small single-idea notes linked to one another.