How a new word is born...

From article, (Covfefe: sometimes it takes something special to make you step back and realize the state of the world you live in.

That’s what happened this Tuesday evening in the U.S. when President Trump gifted the internet a very unexpected present: the covfefe meme.

Within an hour of the misspelled word going out in a tweet to his 31 million followers, “covfefe” had become Twitter’s No. 1 trending hashtag worldwide. It is even trending in countries outside of the U.S.

At the time of writing, the tweet was sent one hour ago and still had not been deleted. Over that period, it racked up nearly 35,000 retweets and over 42,000 likes.

As you’d expect, Twitter users — one of the internet’s most enthusiastic meme-loving communities — seized on the error, which has become the source of much comedy.

Update: The President has now deleted the original tweet, but then made light of his error with another 140 character missive.)

Me, "It just goes to show you, if you are popular and you misspell a word or miss pronounce a word, you can create a whole new word. This has been shown time and again with different languages. Latin, Spanish, French, Italian. German, English, all share words, they are just spelled and pronounced differently. The reasoning being as people spread out around Europe their pronouncement of words kept changing and whole new languages formed. While Pres. Trump, made a mistake in typing out a word, meant to be 'coverage' and it came out Covfefe.  It shows how new words are created everyday. And once you get enough people saying it, it ends up in a dictionary."

With one misspelled word, President Trump gifts Twitter the #covfefe meme

Not too Big, Not too Small.

From article, (smartphone screen size sweet-spot looks firmly settled at between 5 and 6 inches for the foreseeable future. At least until the computing paradigm shifts again — and some kind of socially acceptable wearable manages to lift everyone’s eyes off attention-sucking glass slabs with an augmented vista of the real world instead. At least that’s one theory.

it’s expecting the vast bulk of the smartphone market to become almost equally divided between devices with screens of between 5-inches and less than 5.5-inches, and those with screens of 5.5-inches and under 6-inches — expecting shipments to grow from 593.3M and 558.7M this year respectively, to 731.4M and 749.3M by 2021.

Analyst IDC put out its latest smartphone market projections yesterday, and looking ahead to 2021 it sees shipments of devices with screens of 4-inches (up to less than 5-inches) losing out to those with larger panes. It’s projecting 314.2M million devices in this iPhone SE size category will ship worldwide this year — shrinking to 223.3M by 2021.

That said, IDC isn’t expecting much market change for the very biggest smartphones (of between 6-inches to under 7-inches). It’s expecting shipments in this whopper category to be 32M this year — and to have grown only slightly to 37.4M by 2021.)

Me, "At one point the makers of cell phone were trying to make cell phones as small as possible thinking smaller was better. Now, it seems a certain cell phone size does mater. Not too big and not too small."

Smartphone screens find their size sweet spot