Years behind ...
... We've had Roger's Profanisaurus for ages.
Lovers of the English language in all its glory have until 31 January to vote for the online Macquarie Dictionary word of the year from a splendid selection of neologisms and rather more familiar terms. Reg readers will, of course, be au fait with offerings such as "bloatware", "Web 2.0" and the "Great Firewall of China", but …
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!
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.
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"
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