On ADS-L, some coverage of l’affaire Meghan McCain, the MSNBC reporter who declared on camera on the 9th that the Obamas deserve “an emoticon of privacy”; New York Magazine coverage here, with the video. Ben Zimmer wrote: A simple malaprop for “modicum,” or more of an eggcorn? (She said it twice, so it wasn’t just … Continue reading A modicum of emoticons