I have been asked by more than a few of my faithful readers, yeah apparently there are people who actually read this thing, when the next Commercial Break is coming. Now, I don’t really want to set any sort of precedent for taking requests but I realize it has been a while since you all have had a break from ankle news.
So, the Webster dictionary added 100 new words to its 2007 edition, which I find sort of cart before the horse seeing as its only July of 2007. I mean who’s to say there aren’t a stockpile of brilliant palabra’s out there just waiting to be uttered. Well anyway, the ink has dried and the new 100 are set. So here are just a few that I thought you all might like to know have been formally added to our lexicon:
ginormous: they actually list the etymology of this word as “gigantic + enormous” which floors me. I mean really, that’s considered etymology? They also list the date as “circa 1948” which I find suspect.
smackdown: this word gets 4 definitions but the only one I consider valid is “a contest in entertainment wrestling”
crunk: a style of southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms. Has anyone ever heard of this? Urban dictionary claims that it means ‘crazy drunk’ which makes more sense to me but I’ve never heard that either. I googled crunk bands and here are a few that came up: YoungBloodZ, Lil John and the Eastside boys, meghan mishap & KORRIE, and ff5, which boast the claim of ‘best crunk band EVER’
nocebo: the opposite of placebo - a harmless substance that when taken by a patient is associated with harmful effects due to negative expectations or the psychological condition of the patient. I think this one is my favorite.
Speed dating, soduko, Bollywood, DVR, telenovela, and IED all made the list as well. They’re not all that exciting but I think are pretty reflective of our world right now.
Ok now for your assignment. I would like each of you to use at least two of these words in a sentence, haiku, or limerick and submit them back to me. The most creative, entertaining, thought provoking submission will win a major award, frah gee lay.
8 comments:
I am posting this on behalf of Klinger, his submission for the sentence contest:
Lets go get crunk and lay the smackdown on some ginormous midgets in a wrestling contest. A few drinks before the contest is fine as a nocebo is not nearly is bad as a no-stevo when it comes to contests of this nature. Be weary of the cabbage patch…a move midgets use to smother their opponents as their hands smell like cabbage from their carnie days. We can prob DVR this and give to friends as a christmas stocking stuffer. Consider the phrases "What!" "Yeah!" and "Okay!!" as they will likely be entries later this year into the crunk portion of websters. Good day my friend.
I think I need to know what BOLLYWOOD means before I can use it in a sentence. And also the pronunciation of NOCEBO before my haiku. also don't know the meaning of telenovela or IED. guess i'll need to buy the 2007 webster...do you get commissions for this?? ha
Listening to crunk music is like taking a nocebo, and makes me want to have a ginormous smackdown on the idiot who invented it.
See 7/9/07 comment.
Bollywood = India's motion picture industry
Telenova = Latin-American soap operas
IED = improvised explosive device
NO SEE BOW
now get going on that haiku
I am posting this on behalf of a submitter who wishes to remain anonymous:
Earlier today we had the crunk crankin' and we put the smackdown on a ginormous IED...now we've got time for sudoku.
I am posting this (the very first haiku) on behalf of another anon who would like to remain as suck so they don't retroactively get a failing grade in HS poetry . .
Sudoku haiku
Warrenton no crunk teeth here
But ginormous bugs
Posting on behalf of Dave:
DVRs and IEDs
Illustrate modernity
In ways that only Bollywood,
Or perhaps the soy Geraldo could.
But don't stop there, there's more to see
Like smackdowns and speed dating on TV.
You see we have a perfect storm,
That clearly has begun to form.
So toss your sudoku and RPGs
And spend more time
On your knees.
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