Public Address Word of the Year 2008
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Rofflenui = Roll on floor laughing, big time (greatly).
Sam, that one was most certainly mine (and I think Giovanni found the right reference - ta), although it couldn't have been born without the community of skillful wordplay here that constantly reminds me how enjoyable language can be and how great a taonga it is.
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'view all posts by [X]' function
Great idea for visitors as well as admins. I for one would like being able to skip back through a person's postings, especially when coming in to a conversation that has been going for a while. Someone reminded me yesterday that usenet offered something like that many moons ago..
However, I still want video embedding fixed before encouraging the cactus wizards to add new functions.
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Well, look, I completely agree with you there. Substitute an "um" and the meaning stays the same!
In conversation, I quite often use "um" as a place holder while looking for a more seemly version of are you high or just congenitally stupid? The phatic expression does have its uses.
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Sam, that one was most certainly mine (and I think Giovanni found the right reference - ta), although it couldn't have been born without the community of skillful wordplay here that constantly reminds me how enjoyable language can be and how great a taonga it is.
Heh, my shaky memory... aren't we lucky to have the Internet to resolve etymological disputes at source now? :)
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I only *wish* I'd come up with rofflenui!
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'Tranzrail eyes'
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As in
'He gets that Tranzrail look in his eyes and you just know he is hiding something' (Audrey Young NZH blog 15 October 2008)
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'Tranzrail eyes'
I don't know if it can aspire to word of the year, but I'm gonna start using it at every possible occasion.
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And intenationally I like 'lipstick on a pitbull'.
And previewing 2009 I fear we will hear a lot about 'Rodney the razor' and the NACT.
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...All the lefties think that he's sly
He's got John Key's Tranzrail eyes
<electronic handclaps>(Did you know that 'Bette Davis Eyes' was co-written by Jackie DeShannon? I just learned that!)
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One candidate for Word of the Year has to be John Key's opening to just about evrything he says: "well look"
While we're talking about conversational noises...
Apparently he was Prime Ministerial at the press conference about the air crash, but he didn't quite achieve grave formality with his opening...
So, it is with enormous sadness I learned this morning...
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Rofflenui = Roll on floor laughing, big time (greatly).
Not to be confused with Rofflennui
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Not to be confused with Rofflennui
Rolling on the floor laughing, contemplating the vacuity of human life?
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Not to be confused with Rofflennui
Rolling on the floor laughing, contemplating the vacuity of human life?
That sounds right.
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And previewing 2009 I fear we will hear a lot about 'Rodney the razor' and the NACT.
Bomber Bradbury calls them 'MACTional'.
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Rolling on the floor laughing, contemplating the vacuity of human life?
I was thinking, contemplating the futility of human rolling on the floor laughing, but that also works.
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I think Bomber B also used 'Rodney the razor' last night on his very entertaining Sunday roast media programme (on Alt TV Sundays at 7). We will have to watch him for the evolving NZ language of the Mactional era.
And I think I heard John Key saying New Zeend the other day. Perhaps we are on the edge of a new era of truncation - a razor to syllables as well as the public service.
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And I think I heard John Key saying New Zeend the other day.
Great. If Mark Taylor becomes PM across the ditch, we could forge an alliance with Straya.
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Now that we have been thoroughly gutted, there seems to be no choice but 'going forward'. With the events of recent weeks, could I instead propose 'going backwards' a significant distance.
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Surely "issues".
Perhaps this could be combined with the other suggested Keyisms and be modified to "isshues".
Same goes for "shtrength", "shtudents", "shtabbed in the back"...
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Defnlee.
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Given what I see here, there's good reason to be ambushuss for the future of New Zullund English.
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More a vote for a word I don't want to hear any more:
"Gutted"
Seems to pop up frequently in news articles when people are asked how they feel. "Absolutely" meaningless.
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More a vote for a word I don't want to hear any more:
"Gutted"Isn't Gutted the flipside of Awesome? While it might not have trickled down from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, both words convey a sense of extreme slack-jawed emotion.
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3410,
Defnlee
Deteriating
Vunrable
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