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Journal Cy Guy's Journal: Neologism: The Creation of New Words 10

I was listening to a radio program on the NPR affiliate here in DC. At night they carry some EU programming and during a Deutche-Welle (sp) broadcast talking about a sharks I was inspired to create a new word. So new, in fact, that Googling for it (for the two logical spellings I could come up with anyway) resulted in zero hits. Here it is:

Sharkenfreude© - the unusual pleasure in seeing (or hearing about) someone else being eaten or mauled by a shark
© 2005 Cy Guy Enterprises

Anyone else have any?

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Neologism: The Creation of New Words

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  • ... we've got a word to describe SCO's being eaten alive in court by the nazguls.

    And when google indexes this page, you'll be able to come up with all sorts of google-whacks.

    I can see this as the start of at least 1 new trend - a whole bunch of "$var+freude" words, and "freude+$var" variants.

    • Catnip: kittyfreude
    • Fruit Loops: Freudeloops
    • Joystick: freudebaton (hey - a new word for "penis" - as in "So and so is a real prick^H^H^H^H^Hfreudebaton"
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  • Alas, it is meant to describe me:

    Obliviot: (n) A person who is oblivious, often to the point of idiocy.
  • In (dis)honor of Senator Rick Santorum gay rights activists use it to describe: "the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex".

    It's now the number 1 item on google when you search for his name. I think it's funny, pretty sure the Senator doesn't agree.

  • by nizo ( 81281 ) *
    Hugemoungous (apparently other people use this however), sort of a cross between huge and humongous (yeah it is lame).
    Floridiot, from a friend of mine in NC who hated Florida drivers.
    And my Poe favorite, tintinnabulation.

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