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Vote for the 2006 Word of the Year.

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suppression
injunction
exclusive

Does anyone else know people who belong to the brethren? Not the exclusive ones, just the standard, run-of-the-mill brethren? Have you noticed the poor folks have pretty much had to change the name of their sect to "The Brethren-not-the-exclusive-kind-the-other-ones-that-don't-try-to-pervert-the-course-of-democracy".

brash
key
starkish

waterfront
mallard
fiasco

Truthiness is a good one, but NZ Specific? Some nominations:

Hollow
Cancerous
Coddingtonswallop

...and although this makes me super square, all time favourite word (at the moment):

Soniferous

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er, so do the likes of 'Tomkat' etc count as words?

"to the best of my knowledge"

pwned
And no one knows how to pronounce it.

Po-n'd. As in "My Little Pwnies" (my favourire World of Warcraft gild name.)

Or "owned", either works.

I've heard it used differently – to rhyme with twinned.

As usual, Wikipedia has more on the topic than anyone will ever need to know.

I'm asking TotalFark too, this mystery must not go unsolved!

re the ARC's decision

So, how does one pronounce 'teh'?

'the' or 'teh'?

...did I mention I'm still having nightmares about that "Should 'anal retentive' have a hyphen?" thing? :(

I usually say "teh" because I like to inject a little Te Reo into the World Wide Web.

Another word up for consideration:

unbundling.

On the pwned thing, I think it's an interesting case to illustrate that the written language isn't a mirror of the spoken one but something independent (if strongly connected).

It's fun to see words starting as written without any particular reference to how or whether it might be spoken?

Have you noticed the poor folks have pretty much had to change the name of their sect to "The Brethren-not-the-exclusive-kind-the-other-ones-[...]"

FWIW, they've always referred to themselves as the Open Brethren, I assume to distinguish from the EB. I lived in a brethren-managed hostel for a year at university, perfectly normal?

to divert the subject again, does anyone else find logging in to this site is a bit hit and miss with firefox?

so many of them are such thoroughgoing prats

great word, well used. it just rolls off the tongue!

"so many of them are such thoroughgoing prats"

great word, well used. it just rolls off the tongue!

It's a beauty, ain't it?

arrant(a): without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure?

it is alternately the shapeliness of a woman's leg, or, a bunch of whalers talking at sea.

i've had trouble trying to establish any connection between the two definitions.

last week i was introduced to 'gam'.

it is alternately the shapeliness of a woman's leg, or, a bunch of whalers talking at sea.

i've had trouble trying to establish any connection between the two definitions.

When you're at sea, you really miss the shapeliness of a woman's leg?

When you're at sea, you really miss the shapeliness of a woman's leg?

it just occured to me that if you're a whaler pwning a big 'un of the bow, it might look remarkably like a thigh.

Gammy leg anyone?

As for "pwn"... being of a certain ethnicity I had assumed it was pronounced the same as "cwm".

Teh Internets tells me gam is/was a collective noun for whales and whalers (presumably for people too rustic to use?

He pronounces it "pwinned", anyway.

So that would be "pooned"?

So that would be "pooned"?

Kind of. I don't know how to spell it phonetically, but somewhere between pooned & punned.

So that would be "pooned"?

In terms of harpooned?

Didn't Popeye used to say" I gam what I gam"?

you probably belong in a place with lots of other blokes

a pwnshop?

Gammy: To have a gammy leg implies a deformed or lame leg. It comes from the Celtic cam or kam meaning "crooked". Surprisingly, the use is said to be relatively modern in spite of the age of its origin

So that would be "pooned"?

Hehe, no that is something quite different?

I've played for [ ], the [ ] and the [ ] – those are teams that I've cared fundamentally about so to play overseas would be mercenary. If you could attach it to a place like southern?

i would have thought years of pwning opposing scrums worldwide would make a man stupidier. myth deflated.

...

"at teh end of teh day I was pwned"

he's such a thoroughgoingly lexiphanic bastard

I'll make a supernacular toast to that.

Fortunately I don't move in the kind of company where such things are ever said aloud.

I'll make a supernacular toast to that.

is that like, vogels with a great alphabet soup on it?

but in all seriousness, i'm amazed i wrote a PhD without ever actually reading or using teh words,

lexiphanic
thoroughgoing
peripatetic
or Gammy.

And guess which spelling I just had to look up.

It's pretty geeky 'round here and pwned is always pronounced p-own-d,

Ditto for our also-fairly-geeky workplace.

sounds wrong

I had no clue what peripatetic meant until I read some background on Aristotle-he and his students would often wander about outside Athens, hence the name of his lyceum: the Peripatetic School.

Perhaps said?

"This topic has generated an excellent group of suggestions."
"The supermarket has an excellent range of wines."

It's another case of a superlative being devalued, cos you can replace it with "quite good" and the meaning stays the same.

And I'm also nominating **passion**?

...did I mention I'm still having nightmares about that "Should 'anal retentive' have a hyphen?" thing? :(

OED says anal-retentive gets a hyphen when used as an adjective ("The anal-retentive blogger", "The blogger is anal retentive"

But anal retention and anal retentiveness (both nouns) don't.

Hmm... I suspect there may?

It's another case of a superlative being devalued, cos you can replace it with "quite good" and the meaning stays the same.

I've just been writing on cricket and reminded of how much I love the way words change their meaning when applied to that game. For instance:

average -?

It's what all athletes give these days.

Actually, are numbers and symbols allowed? hang on.

One hundred and ten percent.

You have to love a game, too, that gives us the word 'nurdle' and produces potential sentences like "Pietersen has spanked Warne through the covers".

or "caught behind", or "taken down the legside". giggle giggle.

"The ball dropped at his feet".

"He's put it straight down long ons throat".

or?

"cancerous" – is slightly more powerful though!

Hey, how about: "unbundled"

aspiration/s
aspirational

I had no clue what peripatetic

If I hadn't looked it up, I'd have guessed it meant a state of constant hard-on...

but that must be something else :)

I'd have guessed it meant a state of constant hard-on...

That would be Priapic.

For all those who have watched any kind of "reality" TV I nominate the word 'Journey'. Yes that's right, I'm talking to you, all you contestants on Idol, Rockstar, Top Model, Survivor, Downsize Me, et al.?

The other day I was wandering along K Road at lunchtime when a perky young person thrust a tube of toothpaste at me. It was EXTREME toothpaste apparently.

I expect extreme toothpaste to abrade your teeth away leaving bloody pulpy gums, but the significant feature of this toothpaste was?

Sounds right wingish; is handsomely liberal; should be used more.

has anyone noticed that you can't underline words in documents these days because people complain about broken hyperlinks? everything has to be bold or italic

but on topic, stupidest word of the year, "eradicator".

OED says anal-retentive gets a hyphen when used as an adjective ("The anal-retentive blogger", "The blogger is anal retentive"

Both these examples are actually adjectives, but only the first needs a hyphen. The difference is whether the adjective is acting as?

extreme toothpaste

Maybe it's just normal (orange flavoured) toothpaste for extreme teeth?

has anyone noticed that you can't underline words in documents these days because people complain about broken hyperlinks? everything has to be bold or italic

For computer text I think it's a good thing – but I find myself occasionally trying to handwrite italics... it really doesn't work does it.?

Mind you, I don't often expect a browser window to pop up if I click on handwriting...

People, I'm assured, only started underlining type in the first place because typewriters couldn't do bold or italic. (See?

extreme toothpaste

Maybe it's just normal (orange flavoured) toothpaste for extreme teeth?

Wouldn't that be extreme-tooth paste?

Extreme is a good suggestion though. My gym just introduced "Extreme Fighting" which just means that now I get to punch people.

...underlining does kind of suck as a means of emphasis

I?

has anyone noticed that you can't underline words in documents these days because people complain about broken hyperlinks? everything has to be bold or italic

Apparently the convention of underlining for emphasis came with the invention of the typewriter. It couldn't do italic or bold, but it was easy to?

When I control all the keyboards in the world, people who put two spaces after full stops will be hit on the head with the automatedrubber mallet attached to their monitor.

I learned to do that when I was taught to type. It's another thing that specifically relates to typewriters?

How about that movie 'Eight Legged Freaks'?

OMFG! Eight freaks with legs!

How about anything with the -gate suffix.
Not just an '06 thing, but with tiler-gate, speed-gate, painting-gate, email-gate & whatever, its getting ridiculous.

oh yeah... if i could award the prize, you just got it. jesus that goddamned "-gate" thing shits me.

I've been hanging out for fencegate. If corngate had been called farmgate, I'd have been a happy man.

I like the -box idea?

Why not use one of our own historical political scandals? Winebox, tiler-box, speed-box, email-box, gone-by-lunchtime-box...

That's a great idea, especially when you consider that the Woodward/Bernstein of the Winebox scandal was, of course, TVNZ's very own Ian Wishart.

Cast your mind back through sundry scandals, and consider just how often?

One might even say it goes beyond coincidence, but that's one for the conspiracy theorists

Do you mean a conspiracygatebox??? Sorry that it's not hyphenated.

'crackerbox'

When I control all the keyboards in the world, people who put two spaces after full stops will be hit on the head with the automatedrubber mallet attached to their monitor.

damn this website! it removes all my double spaces! double spaces are the proper way to type. my 3rd?

Why oh why must we have this typographic elegance imposed on us?

This website also removes my double-spacing

That's just how html is rendered – unless you specify an html non-breaking space character, it'll condense any run of multiple spaces into a single space. It's to my perpetual dismay, as yet another conscientious pupil of fourth-form typing.

But there are two words I?

my 3rd form keyboarding teacher would have words with you, young man!

No she wouldn't. She'd be writhing on the floor owing to all the blows from the rubber mallet.

... peripatetic [nomadic] ...

Soon it may come with a Glossary!

When I control all the keyboards in the world, people who put two spaces after full stops will be hit on the head with the automatedrubber mallet attached to their monitor.

Amen.

Although – Cactuslab people – don't think it isn't noticed that italics are in a different font (*gasp!*).?

When I control all the keyboards in the world, people who put two spaces after full stops will be hit on the head with the automatedrubber mallet attached to their monitor.

You'll need an especially extreme one for me since I do exactly the same thing in text messages.

The?

Apparently, it is all the rage...

Interhate n. A form of hatred of anonymous posters/users/customers/etc exclusive to the Internet.

pebkac

– problem exists between keyboard and chair

come on, I had to say it.

Interhate n. A form of hatred of anonymous posters/users/customers/etc exclusive to the Internet.

That sorta fits in with my desire to see more of the -nator suffix.

Interhate – as above.
Internator – troll; practician of interhate. Alternatively, someone that expresses disdain for net users in general.

That most definately is not the cutest thing I have ever seen. I'd go so far as to say it's downright icky.

eww bugs

cheers
Bart

Call me old-fashioned, but what's wrong with good old envisage?

but in all seriousness, i'm amazed i wrote a PhD without ever actually reading or using teh words,
lexiphanic
thoroughgoing
peripatetic
or Gammy.

Bugger. I used one of those in mine.

And I used another of them in ordinary old conversation last night. I didn't realise it?

Yeeuuch!

Referring to stadia is bad enough, but?

From my personal experience it seems to have leapt into wider prominence this last wee while and seems to capture a thread of the zeitgeist.

I also feel it neatly describes the year in politics:?

Condominia is a valid (albeit a bit pompous) alternative to condominiums.

Where do we draw the line between pompous and acceptable? I was actually quite impressed when I heard "condominia" this morning, and I use "stadia" myself.

Are we going to start labelling people as "pompous" if they refer to?

Where do we draw the line between pompous and acceptable?

When no-one can understand you any more, you've hit pompous. I'd given up on 'stadia' because people looked at me blankly. 'Pompous' isn't correctly using 'criteria', it's correctly using 'criterion'.

Obviously, given language is social, how pompous you are depends?

When no-one can understand you any more, you've hit pompous.

When no-one can understand you any more, it's time to get some brighter friends :-)

Actually, I'd say you've hit pompous when you can no longer understand yourself.

Actually, I'd say you've hit pompous when you can no longer understand yourself

And you don't care, so enamoured of yourself, are you.

A case of pompous and crcumstances, then?

Lyndon wins!

Akimbo

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However, if I have managed successfully to register 'bling' as word of the year, I would like to vote for that word.

"How about that movie 'Eight Legged Freaks'?

OMFG! Eight freaks with legs!"

Actually the original title for the film was Arach Attack but given the timing of its release (2002 I believe) Hollywood, in all of its infinite wisdom, decided it wouldn't work given what was expected to?

Frack? Peow peow?