Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Meet the New Words on the Block!!

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I have always been fond of the English language. Ever since I was a child, an English education ensured that while I speak my mother tongue fluently, when it comes to expressing myself, I'd find myself reverting to English.

Now I have a confession...I am involved in lexpionage...Never heard of it? Well, time to get familiar...When you become a trawler of the world wide web and social networking sites in search of new words, that better explain certain new phenomena than the current words in the lexicon, then you too earn your stripes as a spy in the network of lexpionage. Did you know that there they are on twitter too?

churnalism n. Journalism that churns out articles mostly based on wire stories & press releases. 

I laughed over this one for quite a long time...It hit quite close to the truth...Although I have never had to be a churnalist, I know many...and it's not a very happy existence being a journalist like that...I thought it an apt description.

Here are my other favourites....

BlameStorming: n A method of collectively finding one to blame for a mistake no one is willing to confess to. Often occurs in the form of a meeting of colleagues at work, gathered to decide who is to blame for a screw up.

Threequel: n The third film, book or event in a series - the second sequel.

Cyberslacking: v Spending one's employer's Internet and email facilities for personal activities during working hours.

Thumbo n. An error made while using the thumbs to type, particularly on a mobile device keypad.


Cyberdisinhibition n. A temporary loss of inhibition while online. 

These are just some that have caught my fancy recently....More shall follow...


Ahh...before I sign off on this post...guess what Richard Branson made Playboy magazine into when he bought of Playboy from Hefner? A VIRGIN PLAYBOY ofcourse...


On that cheeky note....I shall go off to be flabbergasted at the smorgasboard of words that are out there to gobsmack me with their aptness and bouncebackability of meanings...;)


Cheerio!





 

18 comments:

  1. magiceye29 April 2010 at 10:45

    amusingly interesting

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  2. Vinita Apte29 April 2010 at 14:56

    interesting post...new words keep popping up as we are living in the cyberworld :)

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  3. Rinzu29 April 2010 at 15:29

    thanks...it's always a learning experience to know about new words and try to incorporate them into your writing...

    As Mr.Bachchan once said "English is a very Phunny language"

    take care and keep penning...

    :)

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  4. Journomuse29 April 2010 at 16:40

    Thanks magiceye and LP..i love that about english that its an encompassing language...the permissibility of useful words into the dictionary is indeed great...

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  5. Journomuse29 April 2010 at 16:54

    Rinzu: Welcome to my blog and I appreciate your comments...:)

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  6. Purba29 April 2010 at 20:11

    What a lovely way to get that boring oaf off your back....

    I am a Churnalist....

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  7. Journomuse30 April 2010 at 00:14

    Hehehe...purba, shall share some other words that can only evoke a laugh out of newsmongers like us..:)

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  8. Aabha Vatsa30 April 2010 at 07:01

    HI...... just started blogging and came across your blog.

    Very informative and interesting post!

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  9. umashankar30 April 2010 at 07:58

    Methinks they constitute crude cacophony. An insult unto the conscience, blighted ignominy to the muse.

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  10. Journomuse30 April 2010 at 16:10

    thanks Abha: Welcome to our world and do keep visiting..:)

    US: Realllllly????? I loveeeee new words..they help me convey somethings better...but i like the 'blighted ignominy to the muse' bit...its true for some good words, but there are some hybrids which make their momma words sound better, dont they?

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  11. Supernova30 April 2010 at 19:42

    Hi there...enjoyed your article since I'm fond of words too..:)
    Btw, "blamestorming" is a good one..really needed in the lexicon considering how often its done!:P

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  12. Journomuse30 April 2010 at 19:56

    Thanks for the visit, supernova, till then here's another word downager n. A person who acts younger than his or her age!!! How many do you know like that..;)

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  13. Karan Agrawal1 May 2010 at 02:14

    Hey some really interesting words to learn. Though I knew Threequel and Cyberslacking.

    Keep going!

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  14. Journomuse1 May 2010 at 02:37

    ahhh..really karan...that's nice..these words were new to me though I do happily use fugly and other slangs quite a bit in spoken english...:)

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  15. The Analyst2 May 2010 at 00:57

    You forgot to mention twitter and a whole new set of words that twitter has brought about...actually made a post on that had to cut down the twictionary as I was already getting too verbose on the post...

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  16. Journomuse2 May 2010 at 16:21

    Analyst: Welcome back...are you out of your 'postexam langour'? hope you didn't have to craft new words to fox your graders? :) And has the post gone up on your blog yet? Looking forward to twictionary..:)

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  17. The Analyst5 May 2010 at 22:59

    Yep..out of the post exam languor, which was gripping btw. Now looking at a really lazy stretch of about 2 months ahead and about the twitter post, it was one of my older posts...and the twictionary is hardly complete, I really had to slash it as the post length kind of kept readers away...here's the link

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  18. Rajendra Raikwar21 November 2011 at 15:59

    good one

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