Friday, January 11, 2008

Words of the year

This is a blatantly copied and pasted post, but I thought it was funny and I am maintaining my overactive posting rate...

The American Dialect Society announced that the word of the year in 2007 was "subprime." Previous winners include the 2006 verb "pluto," which means to devalue something, and the 2005 adjective "truthiness," which refers to what one wants to be true regardless of the facts.
Other important new words that emerged in 2007:

Googlegänger
A person with your name who shows up when you google yourself.

wide stance
To be hypocritical or to express two conflicting points of view. This is a reference to Larry Craig, a Republican politician who claimed he wasn't coming on to the undercover cop in the adjacent stall -- he just has a wide stance.

toe-tapper
A homosexual. as in:
"Am I crazy, or are you drinking hard raspberry cider and eating a canadian bacon and pineapple pizza?"
"What are you, a toe-tapper?"
"No, I just have a wide stance."

bacn:
Impersonal email such as alerts, newsletters, and automated reminders that are nearly as annoying as spam but which one has chosen to receive.

celebu
- prefix Indicates celebrity, as in celebutard.

connectile dysfunction
Inability to gain or maintain a connection.I should market a product for wireless routers called Linksyalis: If your connection lasts longer than four hours, notify your service provider.

wrap rage
Anger brought on by the frustration of trying to open a factory-sealed purchase.

tapafication
The tendency of restaurants to serve food in many small portions, similar to tapas.

truther
Someone who espouses a conspiracy theory about the events of 9/11.Call me a truther, but there is something fishy about 9/11. For one thing, there is no way that a President of the United States could ever sit and listen to The Pet Goat being read to a school class for more than five minutes after being told the country was under attack. Harry the Dirty Dog, maybe, but The Pet Goat? No way. That's a crazy conspiracy theory.

global weirding
An increase in severe or unusual environmental activity often attributed to global warming. This includes freakish weather and new animal migration patterns.Seattle now has a winter. We're going to need snowplows in a few years.

locavore
Someone who eats food that is grown or produced locally.

vegansexual
A person who eats no meat, uses no animal-derived goods, and who prefers not to have sex with non-vegans.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:22 pm

    And there was me thinking that a "vegansexual" was a person who only had sex with organic vegetables.
    I did explain "googleganger to G last week.
    Can we all suggest a new word?
    Does "lardars" exist?
    m

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  2. Anonymous6:32 pm

    I googled myself and it was some obscure comment I'd made about the Hilton Chicago, obviously trying to win a holiday somewhere else; definitely connective dysfunctional, the wifi router still will not work and as for vegansexual, there was a deflated plastic young lady with a surprised expression in the understairs cupboard for years just waiting for a vegan. ajen

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