Friday, September 05, 2008

Ugly neologisms ...

... Webinar. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The appeal of PowerPoint eludes me. As for neologism, blog isn't exactly lyrical.

1 comment:

  1. OMGulp, "webinar" tops 'em all in the ugliotic department. It's not one Shakespeare would've allowed in the 17,776 words he deployed, a full ten percent of which were compounds, portmanteaus, and neologisms, a fact which incorriged, among others, both Pynchon and Joyce (to an almost sardiculous degree in Mason & Dixon as well as the incomparably hymnastic Finnegans Wake respectively).

    Oh? Okay. A brief sample of originalisms coined by the Bard:

    Articulate, bare-faced, brittle, critical, co-mart, dwindle, excellent, fragrant, gnarled, homicide, incarnadine, ill-starred, judithiantic, lonely, monumental, needly, obscene, operant, pedant, primogenitive, radiance, submerged, snow-white, twangling, vizaments,whizzing, et so forthia (which I got off Pynchon who also intertwingled his vocabulary with the unforgettable Carpe carpus!)

    Thus, when I am attask'd over my predeliction for such triviata and tediosities, I simply laugh all the way to the brink and think, "Have a nice life and an even nicer afterlife" (if I'm feeling generous; otherwise, I simply silently suggest the ignorantic one go eff themselves with a chainsaw).

    http://tinyurl.com/neologymnastics

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