People think they are sooooo funny, and so they like to make up new words. Right on the heels of Merriam-Webster announcing their new included words of 2008, Cramer-Krasselt (some advertising agency, yeah, I've never heard of them either) has released a list of words we should all incorperate into our daily vocabulary. No WONDER it's so hard for foreigners to learn our language! We keep adding stuff! Anyway, these are the top 10 newly coined words and phrases compiled from a variety of sources...use them or lose them? I'm in GREEN in case you didn't know. But you did, you're smart.
1.Luxcession: v. - As the economy continues to hit
consumers' wallets affecting their purchasing choices, many mass-class luxury
items are also taking a hit.
Luxcession? Oh please. I feel so sorry for those of you who had to choose the Audi instead of the Beamer. Talk to those of us whose cars overheat at stop lights and don't have air-conditioner (namely, me)
2.Dotcomrade: n. - A friend or acquaintance that you met
online but have never met in person.
This is a hilarious term. I'm not sure we needed a word for this, isn't there already "stalker"?
3.Greenwashing: n. - The practice of bogus environmental
marketing.
TOTALLY. I'm fully supportive of us going green, but do we need a whole HD Network for it? How exactly does spending tons of money on a new network full of machines and non-green paper and computers equal loving mother earth?
4.Info Snacking: v. - Wasting time at work by surfing the
Web.
Again, I thought we had a word for this. I think it's just "slacking".
5.Blacking Out: v. - To turn off any device that people can
reach you with (cell phone, two-way, computer, home phone, morse code, etc.) in
order to avoid someone.
Or drinking too much tequilla, calling your ex crying, throwing a beer glass across the bar, driving your friends car through a parking lot, and barfing out the window - then saying you don't remember anything the next day. Now who's avoiding who?
6.Compunicate: v. - To chat with someone when you are in the
same room, each on separate computers, and you talk via Instant Messenger
instead of speaking to them out loud, in person.
Lolz. We actually do this at work all the time, but it's because we're talking about people in nearby cubicles and we don't want them to hear. Bad, bad CW Girls!
7.Defriend: v. - To remove somebody from your established
list of contacts, considered the ultimate snub on social network.
I would love it if people in real life got in fights and yelled, "Oh you are SOOOO defriended. I am never putting you back in my Top 8, Biyatch! TOM can take your place!!!"
8.Generica: n. - Features of the American landscape that are
exactly the same no matter where you go such as strip malls and fast food
places.
This is dumb. My head is starting to hurt. I need some generica Aleve.
9.Mouse Potato: n. - The online generation's answer to the
couch potato.
This is a pretty true and accurate coined phrase. Except, what about those of us who sit on the couch with our laptops AND watch TV at the same time? I guess we're just vegetables.
10.Googleganger: n. - Another individual with the same name
as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google
yourself.
I have a lot of these. With a generic name like Parker, you're bound to. Nobody is a total psycho, though, which means any boys who google me shouldn't be too scared, I hope. What? YOU TOTALLY DO IT.
