Back to the articleYears behind ... #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 12:42 GMT
... We've had Roger's Profanisaurus for ages.
Aussies whip out their a*se antlers
No hope actually. #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 12:53 GMT
I've just viewed a few of the entries.
Blogosphere may not be there as an entry, but if you look in Media, under lamestream, well there it is.
lamestream
Colloquial –noun 1. the traditional media providing news and entertainment, viewed as lacking the originality and daring of the blogosphere.
–adjective 2. of or relating to such traditional media. [lame + (main)stream]
I've just vomited out my own pelvis in protest.
Thankfully "Mobe" is nowhere to be found, I think!
Oh Noes!!! #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 13:25 GMT
"intertubes" is nowhere to be found!
The jacket with the limited-capacity pipes dangling from the collar please...
One word or two? #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 13:25 GMT
I thought dictionaries produced definitions of single words, or words joined by a hyphen? Most of the Aussie contenders are more phrases than actual words.
"'Subprime' is word of year 2007" #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 13:52 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7173110.stm
My favourite is "Googleganger" - meaning a person thrown up by a Google search on your name, but who is not you.
Flunge #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 14:10 GMT
should be it as it' a much better word than "muffintop" to describe the rolls of fat that hang out over too tight trousers
Wotwankers. #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 14:26 GMT
Noun. Collective. Those who persist in producing "Word of the week/month/year/millenium" lists......
I give up #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 15:05 GMT
After reading some of the "words" listed in this article, I officially give up on the human species. Was there really anything wrong with using real words instead of making up this stupid-sounding shit? Between this and the incessant need of people to use text-messaging "words" and formatting in non-text-messaging scenarios, it's a wonder these people can even communicate. It certainly is a prime example of why education (more accurately, educated people) is at an all-time low. I shudder and silently weep when I think these are the people who will be running the world when I'm a senior citizen.
Aussies #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 23:55 GMT
They just added Electronica in 2007? What have they been listening to all this time? Basic rock music judging by the stuff that makes it's way back over here.
I like floordrobe though. I have a particularly fine example in my bedroom at the moment.
I believe a more general term for tattoos located above a female posterior is "tramp stamp"
I like those tatoos #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 01:04 GMT
If no one else likes them then they have been getting them all for me damn does that make me feel good.
Deficient Macquarie #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 09:16 GMT
Hey Macquarie here’s a new one for you
Carbon castration: a) to ultimately run out of fuel, b) to be disconnected from a fuel supply for political or social reasons.
Remember you see it here for the first time.
Wot no vuln? #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 10:12 GMT
For people who can't manage words of more than one sylable.
Missing Words Round #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 12:34 GMT
I'm having difficulty in finding the words "dignity in sport" in these antipodean literary gems. Perhaps an ocker could help?
(Yes, I know that NZ is nearer the strict definition of antipodes from my location)
@Chris C - use of text speak #
Posted Monday 14th January 2008 16:32 GMT
Agree with you entirely
I have a colleague who is much older than me but insists on using shorthand phrases on MSN and e-mail and she lets the predictive text do the talking on texts.
Have a listen to the comedic track 'these are my worries' by Bill Bailey, the end bit sums the situation up perfectly.
I always use full english in all my communications, even if I end up with a concatenated text which costs me more.
My word of the year is the El Reg coined celebutard - a thicko that will do anything to get on TV or in the media, Brian Belo is the perfect example
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