Hey, all you newbs should open your lappys and head on over to the Oxford English Dictionary to check out the ZOMG! thirty-five new words accepted this year. It’s totally not NSFW. If you’re sitting around nekkid in your man cave complaining about your man flu while studying your social graph to figure out who to unfollow in the Twittersphere you might need to consider a lifehack to help you better manage your time.
If you can’t find a permalink that explains savior siblings, you might need to calm down, get a mani-pedi, and drink some coconut water. If your bestie is a bankster or a BOLO engaged in casino banking you might need to wear an awareness bracelet to compensate. Even if it isn’t Cyber Monday and you’re not feeling overly eco-chic or schmick, there’s no need to overshare about the meep you made during the pat-down you got from some ‘roid-raging airport cop.
I don’t need a breadcrumb trail to figure out how you got that baby-bump. It might be a bit insidery but I’m not putting writing an infographic on my bucket list.
Also, too, I am for Network Neutrality and I like to keep everything paperless.
Nice, there were only three phrases I was unfamiliar with in that entire post.
Good to know the ol’ Oxford is only a few years behind UrbanDictionary. At this rate maybe I’ll visit their site sometime in the recent past.
this stuff is important for Scrabble.
Oh right. In that case since they’re so obviously influenced by pop culture, why don’t we start trying to figure out what words we can make up and popularize solely for the purpose of making it into Oxford for Scrabble?
I’ll start.
Quajzix (pronounced KWAH-jhix) n. – Much like the “Matrix” from the popular film trilogy, except that the ‘awakened’ ones are all Muslim. Whoa, Obama elected President?!? WTF, are we in the Quajzix or something?
Uh, say whuh now?
As if there weren’t too many words already.
Oh.
I have an idea.
Let’s get rid of a few!
Of course…that would force us to make a new word.
“Unword.”
But…what the hell. Kill off a few thousand with the addition of one? That’d work. Win win. right?
OK, here goes. My own unwording nominations:
1-Win win
Why? There is no such thing. Win, win win, win win win, win win win win etc. If something wins, something else loses. Every goddamned time. Ask the Egyptians. Ask the Madoffians. Ask John Edwards.
2-Medical marijuana
Please.
What a scam.
People want to get high? Feel free. You don’ got to make believe that you’re sick!!! And if you are sick? Feel free squared. Tell the government to get the fuck out of our heads. (See my sig below for more on that subject. Nuthin’ new here…Thoreau knew 150+ years ago. So did Sam Clemens. “Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.”)
3-Drone
Lookit. A “drone” is a sound. A boring, monochromatic sound. Kinda like John Boehner’s voice. Let’s call a spade a spade here, folks. The “drones” that are regularly killing civilian brownish people in the AfPak War are robotic killing machines. They’re not “drones”, they’re the beginning of SkyNet.
Oh shit. A new word. RKMs. This isn’t working out well.
So it goes.
Anyone else want to create some unwords?
Feel free. Smoke some medical marijuana if need be and undrone (Oh, shit. Another one!!!) our great language. It’s a win win situation.
Later…
AG
P.S. I don’t smoke me no marijuana, myself. Clean and crazy sober, 25+ years and counting.There are better ways of geting there than clogging up your lungs with pot tar. Bet on it.
In fact…meditate on it. If you get deep enough into it, you’ll be able to hear them drones a’comin’ an’ git the fuck outta the way.
You miss the purpose of the Oxford Dictionary. It seeks to document every word that has ever been used in the English language, when it appeared, when its meaning changed, when idioms using the word appeared, etc.
Your complaint is best directed at those dictionaries that trim Oxford’s word list down to those most in current usage. Like the American Heritage dictionary. If you want a word dropped from those, just stop using it. Isn’t that the paradigm?
“Paradigm”
Another one!!!
What with inflation and all…make it “paranickel.” Or maybe “parapence.”
AG
P.S. “Media markets”
Yet another.
I mean, really. “Media markets?” Like we’re just a buncha meatheads living in a certain area waiting to be sold some custom-tailored bullshit that will appeal particularly well to one of our 210 regional sets of prides and prejudices?
Maybe “Meatia markets” might be better.
P.P.S. Tarheel:
Complaint?
It wuz a joke, TD.
Please…
Is lappy global? Or just in the UK?
It is interesting that some words are one- or two-decade-old jargon from some industry or another that have recently crossed over into popular speech–just like “accelerator” did a hundred years ago and “mouse” the computer interface did twenty-five years ago, and “interface” did thirty years ago.
And then there are some that are rapidly archaic. Like “information superhighway”, “internet on-ramp”, and of course the now culturally deprecated “groovy”.
Thanks for reminding me of “groovy”. Don’t know how I forgot it. 😉