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"New" Words From the Geek Culture
thatskinnyguy sends news of Merriam-Webster's 2008 list of new words and, to no-one's surprise, a good number of them come out of geek culture: words like webinar, malware, netroots, pretexting, and fanboy are now official words according to M-W. The CNet article pulls out one "new" word for special appreciation — mondegreen — and, while the article gets the origin right, it ends with a lame call for readers to send in their favorite mondegreens. (CNet does have the good grace to link the Kiss This Guy site.) SFGate columnist Jon Carroll has been collecting readers' mondegreens since 1995 and his list is bound to be better. Quoting Carroll, in a prophetic mode: "This space has been for some years the chief publicity agent for mondegreens. The Oxford English Dictionary has not yet seen the light, but it will, it will." Would you believe, Merriam-Webster's?
...personally enjoy being able to watch languages evolve, but, "Webinar"?!
It should only be used in the phrase:
"What in the webinar you doing, scumm!?"
I prefer the acronym, OCS: Online Collaborative Seminar.
You spelled "fanboi" wrong.
Sincerely,
AC
What is a "webinar" for example?
It was invented by a group of HR people. They needed a cool new word for "webcast", so people wouldn't get angry when they found out that instead of spending a week at retreat on professional development, they were to be locked in a room with a projector instead.
webinar, n:
1) something formed by or as if by weaving. There's a spider webinar garage
I find it egregious that it took until 2007 to add "w00t" to the dictionary. I was using w00t back in the Warcraft II and Command & Conquer days.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some juvenile delinquents that I need to evict from my grass.
I gave up on Webster's as an authoritative source on the English language after they added bling to its dictionary. Noah Webster would be angered by the himbos now in charge of his publication. Perhaps the publishers are just part of the Sandwich generation and spend too much time with their parents while their mouse potato kids edit the dictionary for them.
Unfortunately the parent's name is unknown, or we'd have a good candidate for a new word to denote a dim pillock who explains jokes. And, while the angels weep, gets modded up for it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I can finally tell someone their picture should be in the dictionary under fanboy.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
I don't care who you are, that's fox worthy right there.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
syn. "use Gentoo Linux"
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Efforting - V - newspeak - The act of an incompetent journalistic organization to appear busy - "We are efforting to bring you more details."
I am hearing this more and more... I say STFU and just say "trying" or "working on" instead of bullshitting us while trying to sound cromulent.
On that note, while they're at it, they ought to add STFU to their little book o' words. It is a perfectly spatulant word and the English-speaking world would be metalopulant to finally instructulate it offically.
FairTax baby!
If I was VC and some little tosspot interrupted me like that, I'd tell him to fuck right off. You can do that when you're VC.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I don't see any reason to embiggen the dictionary.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
True. A noble word that embiggins us all.
It should be unpossible to leave out.
I don't see any reason to embiggen the dictionary.
Unless one wishes to enturbulate the masses.
All Google has to do is show they're trying to supress unauthorized verbing. It's for the best, really.
Verbing weirds nouns.
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
You insensitive clod, for me it still is the Command and Conquer days!
THANK YOU
First time I heard this was from our marketing guy my response was along the lines of a shutter and yelling at him to NEVER use that word again in front of me. They are web presentations. Webinar is a new word for the bullsh*t bingo card.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
I guess I'm just not cool anymore...
Oh, dear. Epic coolness fail! Newspeak is made of win. You are not a legend.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
At my last job everyone used the term webinar. Just because you have a unique experience doesn't mean everyone else has the same experience...
Actually, if you have a unique experience, that specifically means that no one else has had that experience. I learned that at a recent company 'blogginar'.
You're a marketer aren't you?
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
There are no words to describe the way i feel right now, so I'll make one up... Scrumtrelescent
my response was along the lines of a shutter and yelling at him to NEVER...
Does that count as a mondegreen, or just poor command of English?
"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional."
wc2 and c&c are days that are not so old, "paps"
Stop trying to "smear" his good name. It's "pops" to you.
hydophonic? is that where you hook the fishtank up to your stereo?
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?