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Jargon Coiner (#6)

An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up.

* TLDography (pronounced till-daw-graffy): The study of top leval domains.

Example: "I asked my friend, a TLDographer, what country .ca stood for,
and he responded, 'California, of course'."

* TLDofy (pronounced till-duh-fy): Identifying a country by its top level
domain.

Example: "Oh, so you're from .de? Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"

* HTML lapse: A period of time when the brain slips into thinking in HTML.