Neologism: The Creation of New Words - Slashdot

Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

×

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

Journal by Cy Guy on Tuesday January 25, 2005 @03:46AM

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?

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Neologism: The Creation of New Words

Load All Comments

Search 10 Comments Log In/Create an Account

Comments Filter:

So now ... (Score:2)

by tomhudson ( 43916 ) writes:
... 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"
Re: (Score:2)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:

Comment removed based on user account deletion
- Re:My favorite word: Anilingus (Score:2)
  
  by bofh31337 ( 521771 ) writes:
  
  That is truly a word to end all words!
  
  Now all you need is some duct tape.
My fiancee coined a term... (Score:2)

by peacefinder ( 469349 ) * writes:

Alas, it is meant to describe me:

Obliviot: (n) A person who is oblivious, often to the point of idiocy.
- Re:My fiancee coined a term... (Score:1)
  
  by elmegil ( 12001 ) writes:
  
  And you're planning to marry this person?
  - Re:My fiancee coined a term... (Score:2)
    
    by peacefinder ( 469349 ) * writes:
    
    The miracle is that she doesn't see this as an obstacle.
- Re:My fiancee coined a term... (Score:2)
  
  by Cy Guy ( 56083 ) * writes:
  
  Obliviot: (n) A person who is oblivious, often to the point of idiocy.
  
  Have you ever considered being tested for Ausperger's? That sounds like a pretty fitting desciption.
  - Re:My fiancee coined a term... (Score:2)
    
    by peacefinder ( 469349 ) * writes:
    
    Well, it's not as bad as all that, but thanks for asking. :-) I'm not like that all the time.
    
    Actually, I did take a little quiz a few years ago, that was descriptive but not predictive of ausperger's. (That is, "most people with ausperger's score X or higher, but many who score X or higher do not have ausperger's.") I was within a couple percent of X one way or another, I forget which. Several of my friends scored higher, and all scored very near the border.
    
    So yeah, I have some ausperger's traits, but not
Santorum (Score:2)

by Mantorp ( 142371 ) writes:

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.
A few (Score:2)

by nizo ( 81281 ) * writes:

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.

There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.

"Don't drop acid, take it pass-fail!" -- Bryan Michael Wendt