Public Address Word of the Year 2008
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My mum will be dead proud. :)
She should be. And, for what it's worth, I'm also in favour of the rofflenui spelling.
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I was going to enter Brain fart until the accompanying wiki entry blew me away......
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And, for what it's worth, I'm also in favour of the rofflenui spelling.
Et tu, Brute?
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Et tu, Brute?
Well, that was my original vote. It's not as if I pretended to switch factions while secretly plotting to restore the republic.
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And thanks to my lack of classical education, I didn't even get the reference. You guys need to suggest some other words before the voting..
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I'm coming around on the spelling... roflnui might be more linguistically pure, but rofflenui is very onomatopoeic. It tells you how to say it, in a user-friendly way. Hmm.
Is it a noun ("we had a right old rofflenui at that one") or a verb? If so,does it inflect for tense? ("I rofflenuid my &*%^ off").
Still holding out for Jen's expertise, but also deferring to Islander, who will be responsible for getting this word into the OED ere long!
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As roflnui it's a bridge between net and maori cultures. As rofflenui it also bridges into pre-net english. I guess we'll have to see how it gets used to figure out what seems right, but I suspect as a modern word there won't be any hard and fast rules - or even one spelling.
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It may not deserve to be Word of the Year, but rofflenui is clearly streets ahead in the Word of the Word of the Year competition.
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Word!
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Word rulz
u haz my word
(blame my nephew I am a sockpuppet at this moment aaaa -
And in what year would "word" have been the word of the year?
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And in what year would "word" have been the word of the year?
I shall refer you to Genesis 1:1. (Still during the Peter Gabriel years, then.)
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And here I was imagining the late 80s or early 90s.. :)
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obamanation
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Word of the year:
volatility
"the stock market is showing signs of volatility..."
"the price of milk is showing signs of volatility..."
"the price of oil is showing signs of volatility..."
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Turbo-charge.
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I think 'urgency' might make for a good late entrant.
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If you have any more suggestions, get 'em in. I'll harvest the candidates from this thread in the next few days and get a voting thingy in operation.
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shopocalypse
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I've noticed the term "daddy state" gaining currency in the last few weeks. It's not a new term, but it seems only to have landed here very recently.
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overshare - and I'm not saying anymore
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Is that "I'm over shares"? :)
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I think 'urgency' might make for a good late entrant.
I was just thinking the same thing a couple of nights ago. 'Urgency' surely should be in there somewhere. I'd plump for 'volatility' as well.
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"I'm over shares"?
nice
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