Some words (and expressions)
are relatively new.
They arrive sometimes
out of thin air or from the technological fog, then they stay
with us all of the time, just like hamburgers
and heart attacks.
What!
What the heck is the connection
between new words, burgers, and heart attacks?
I don’t know, but it
sounded good.
In the news, however,
there is an excellent example of irony (or inevitability) that involves big
burgers and heart attacks, which may bear out a connection:
“John
Alleman, a 52-year-old unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill — a
restaurant notorious for exorbitantly and intentionally high-calorie fare such
as “the Triple Bypass Burger” — has died of a heart attack, according to owner John Basso.
As CBS News reports, the restaurant has come under scrutiny for
previous incidents in which regular patrons died of heart-related
complications, and the flippant attitude that Basso has demonstrated towards
critics of his restaurant’s active encouragement of obesity and unhealthy
lifestyles.
The restaurant also offers free meals to patrons who weigh over 350
pounds.”
Is there a new word
for a heart attack which results from eating humongous hamburgers?
Let’s see.
COW in Sumerian is gu.
How about Guangina or Anginagu?
Maybe these sound too
strange and highfalutin.
How about BURGERBLITZKRIEG?
Let me know if you
come up with a neologism.
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Below is a list of new
words added this year to the new Miriam Webster Dictionary:
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/newwords12.htm]
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And
here are a few, new gems from The Oxford
Dictionary Online:
vajazzle, v.: adorn the pubic area (of a woman) with crystals, glitter, or
other decoration
tweeps, pl. n.:
a person’s followers on the social networking site Twitter (As in,
"Good night, tweeps!”)
totes, adv.:
totally (As in,
"Girl, that bag is totes amaze. Where did you get it?")
ridic, adj.:
ridiculous (abbrev.) (As in, "Have you seen Paul Ryan's shirtless pic?
Seriously, his abs are ridic.")
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And finally, buzzwords.
What buzzwords will have workers buzzing in 2013? Only time
will tell, but to help, BusinessNewsDaily interviewed small business
owners, PR people, entrepreneurs and others to give workers
a heads up on which buzzwords they may see in the coming year. The list
includes:
1. Advertainment— "Advertising
is no longer about interrupting what people are interested in, it's about being
what people are interested in."
3. Growth hacker—
"A role that replaces traditional marketing roles in fast-growing
businesses."
4. Social learning— "An
individual's learning a skill through observation, without necessarily changing
their behaviors or on-the-job performance.
5. Alphanista—
"Successful women in powerful positions having it all."
6. Acqui-hire— "A
blend of acquired and hired."
7. Return on involvement— A brand that "gets involved with their community will
garner better return on their investment
by getting involved hosting
fundraisers, partnering with schools and giving the local residents a gathering
spot."
8. Inventreprenuers— "An
entrepreneur-inventor hybrid that markets and/or manufactures their own
creation."
9. Twinternship—
"An internship where the student’s mission is to promote the company and
its brands using social media such as Twitter and Facebook."
10.
Wantrepreneur— Someone who hasn’t "taken all the steps necessary to
take the leap" into entrepreneurship.
11.
Minergy— Someone who uses "minimal energy to get the task
accomplished."
12.
Tri-ti-tasking— "Doing three things at once."
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Here are a few more that have been
around for a while:
GOOGLE
[Google was first incorporated as a
privately held company on September 4, 1998]
TEXTING
[Radiolinja became the first network to
offer commercial person-to-person SMS text messaging service in 1994]
EMAILING
[Delivering a display of how form and
content are inseparable, the first "real" email, sent in late 1971,
announced its own existence (the exact words have been forgotten,
unfortunately). It also included instructions how to use the '@' character in email addresses.]
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