Comments on Dictionary Evangelist: Pop!Tech Words!

Sustetic. Amazing. It's an entire design manifest...

2009-05-27T20:52:56.452-05:00

Sustetic.

Amazing. It's an entire design manifesto in one word.

lexinspiration!

This sounds like a job for Barbara Wallraff!http:/...

2009-02-12T08:29:00.000-06:00

This sounds like a job for Barbara Wallraff!
http://barbarawallraff.theatlantic.com/

Hi, Erin --Psychotherapists in NYC are wondering: ...

2009-02-12T08:13:00.000-06:00

Hi, Erin --

Psychotherapists in NYC are wondering: have you run across a term that describes being hopeful about technology and then having that hope dashed?

It's the Charlie Brown / Lucy with the football phenomenon of being excited that, for example, an upgrade will bring about a shiny new world, but then you wind up with more problems than when you started.

So far, we have the term "technofrauded" -- liked in part because it sounds like schadenfreude and defrauded by technology at the same time.

Suggestions?

I'm disappointed by 'forblogen', which really shou...

2009-02-05T12:46:00.000-06:00

I'm disappointed by 'forblogen', which really should be a state of heightened anxiety prior to posting or reading a blog.

I prefer the spelling "forbloggen."

2009-01-14T16:49:00.000-06:00

I prefer the spelling "forbloggen."

How dim am I? Why did I immediately jump to "verbo...

2008-12-07T07:08:00.000-06:00

How dim am I? Why did I immediately jump to "verboten" instead of "forbidden"? Some cognitive scientist somewhere would love that mapping!

Thank you, Shay.

I think it's just a play on the word "forbidden."

2008-12-06T13:58:00.000-06:00

I think it's just a play on the word "forbidden."

"Forblogen" - what is the root of this? "Verboten"...

2008-12-06T11:59:00.000-06:00

"Forblogen" - what is the root of this? "Verboten" = "forbidden" in German (if I remember my UofC German classes correctly), so I would've thought it would be "verblogen" for "something forbidden to be blogged about". But that's only true if we're sticking to German-type roots. Perhaps the "for-" prefix is from another language and has a more appropriated sense for this usage?

I've just made up my first neologism! Quasialidiem...

2008-11-16T23:13:00.000-06:00

I've just made up my first neologism! Quasialidiem, the feeling that it is a different day than it actually is. It's from Latin roots, although I'm not sure if I've put them together correctly.

I also wanted to thank you, Erin. Your blog, Verbatim, and the talks you gave at Google and TED are great resources for my linguistics term paper. I'm adding Dictionary Evangelist to my RSS feed.

Yes, Dory, I think so! And I love "polydundant."

2008-11-12T05:18:00.000-06:00

Yes, Dory, I think so! And I love "polydundant."

Is Chai Tea polydundant?

2008-11-09T09:56:00.000-06:00

Is Chai Tea polydundant?