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New Words For A New World

Started by sbspalding · il y a 9 mois

Twitter: “A real picture of yourself is encouraged. It adds personableness to your tweets.”
Twitter has a suggestion for the Twitter newbie that to make you more “real” , you should add a “real picture” of yourself to y ... Continue reading »

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jokeyxero
il y a 9 mois

I like, though "Awkwardology" would be the study of awkwardness. Perhaps Awkwardability as a measure of how easily something makes it to avoid those awkward situations. Same for "KneeJerkology", maybe "KnewJerkability", though I laughed at the definition. Give your defn for "Scabilibilty" maybe it should be "Unscabilibilty". ;)

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

Unscability: built in flash with a hint of Ruby on Rails. And a dash of blogspot. :O)

thanks for commenting! :O)

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danhhoang
il y a 9 mois

How bout Connability? I'm sure there are tons of scammers out there that wants your attention. Though I like Flurt... but I chase after the gal-avatars.

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

i love that one.

Slipperibiliness: the feeling you get when someone calls themselves an Internet/SEO Guru.

thanks for commenting! :O)

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Emily Wong
il y a 9 mois

Hi Ophelia,

Had myself a good laugh!!

Gumminess strikes home with me. My friend wanted to boost his level on some dating site and convinced me to sign up and friend him. Ever since then, I've been getting email reminders and creepy pokes.

Fleshyness is a close second. The unveiled muffin top is never sexy.

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

Muffin top! I can't eat muffins anymore. Feels cannabilistic (new word).

You are a true friend to do that for your friend. Now you have to get him to sign up on something equally Gummy for you. Like a cute cat site.

Thanks for commenting! :O)

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Modern Advertising Methods
il y a 9 mois

Thanks for this list of terms. When everybody starts using them, now I'll know what they mean.

Really a cleaver post.

Warmly,

Linda P. Morton

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

Heres' a new one for Advertising:

"Alexa-paralysis"
When websites gives you numbers that don't jive with your numbers. Both parties then go into facial and vocal paralysis. A Stare-Downation happens and only the first one that blinks first looses.

Thanks for commenting! :O)

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bluetooth dongle
il y a 9 mois

I loved the SEO-iphied Throwing in the word “google” in the source code. Great stuff. Emjoyed it fully

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

thank you! I also like "SwampThinginess": A blog that sinks to the bottom and comes back to haunt you after you hit it big. Usually a blog written while angry after a bad break up.

thanks for commenting! :O)

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fatfoogoo
il y a 9 mois

HAHA! Awkwardology - absolutely brilliant. There's always that defining work relationship moment when you get the 'friend request' from the boss and that tiny little voice in the back of you head says, "hmmm...do I really want her/him having access to my slightly intoxicated exploits?"

I've experienced this on a few occasions and never had the defining term for it. Again, brilliant! Thanks!

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

Another term:
"FullyDressified"
A public profile where you are wearing at least 3 pieces of clothing.

"BWD"
Blogging while Drunk. Defying all the odds you upload a post and forget about it until your Boss or ex reads it.

Thanks for commenting! :O)

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Rachel
il y a 9 mois

I like Awkwardology!

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

thanks!

"Fish Eyeballs": similar to "having eyeballs on your site", but with the addition of just plain staring at your site while held captive in a glass bowl.

thanks for commenting! :O)

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Monavie
il y a 9 mois

My favorite was "Lickibility
The condition where you will settle for just licking the monitor. Goes for Food sites as well."

It reminds me of that forward everyone sent around that has a pug dog licking the screen. I could do with less Gumminess sites though!

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

I would start screaming if my dog licked any of my hardware. Dog drool is gooey.

I just got an email from a site that I had ignored for over a year (surprised it was still around) that it missed me. It is creepy when emails like that sound like ex-boyfriends. "where are you? i miss you! come back!" ewww.

Thanks for commenting! :O)

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Advertising Guy
il y a 9 mois

Aw, c'mon. You gotta toss the 'ness' words. I think truthiness both opened and shut that door. Possibly on the same day.

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

Maybe I should replace it with "tion"
Rabidtion
Gummition
Fleshtion

Actually sounds alot better. or maybe "ounce"
Rabidounce
Gummounce
Fleshounce

Not bad. It's beginning to sound like medication now.

"Can't Sleep? Try Gummounce! Not Chewy, but Gummy!"
"Need to loose that extra five pounds? Take Fleshounce!"

Getting better...

Thanks for commenting!

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Frank Polenose
il y a 9 mois

Some great "new words" here - let's use them all!

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

thanks frank!

Today's new word: Slide-itis
An allergic rash that VCs get when they are in a dark room with a four hour powerpoint that the presenter has to read every page to them and use a laser pointer as he/she reads across the slide.

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

A new word:

Medicatability
A site that has a new Patch every day to keep the Bugs away.

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Hector Jarquin
il y a 9 mois

useful for a new ground! thanks Steve...

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wilson
il y a 9 mois

I always try to use these two words, "lickibility" and "ickibility" in my articles, although it's sounds disgusting to me here lol

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

i love "lickibliity" its soooo you know ewww.

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offshore hosting
il y a 9 mois

How bout Connability? I'm sure there are tons of scammers out there that wants your attention. Though I like Flurt... but I chase after the gal-avatars.

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

SEO experts/gurus. always be careful of who you hire, one thing to say you are the guru, another to be one.

girl avatars, packaging makes the sell. :O)

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Time Tracker
il y a 9 mois

Would there be a defined term for keeping a site in 'beta' clearly past it's beta point, i.e. Gmail?

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ophelia_chong
il y a 9 mois

maybe FinallyNoodledToDeath Mail

:O)

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Bijou Argent Tibetain
il y a 9 mois

"SEO-iphied: Throwing in the word “google” in the source code."

So true. Google, not only in the context of SEO, but in general must be the word of the century.

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