Public Address | System (Home)

Posted at 9:42AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Its not one word, but I'm amazed how quickly 'its Business Time' has entered the common lexicon (courtesy of Flight of the Concords).

Even heard the CEO of a prominent corporate using it in a public forum recently - I'm sure Jemaine and Brett would have giggled.

Posted at 9:42AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

I vote for "rotation" as the word of the year. I can't think of a word that packs so much promise, hope, and yet also pain, frustration and anger into just three short syllables.

Wot, me still bitter? Nah...

Posted at 9:56AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

I vote for "rotation" as the word of the year.

Heh - I'm completely with you Andy, although my particular gripe was with that other horrible 'r' word, 'reconditioning' - i.e, having the best people for a particular job, and not letting them do it.

Posted at 10:03AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Yeah I hear that Richaard. OK so that's now a joint entry: "Rotation and Reconditioning". Never before was so much promised, and not delivered, by so few to so many. (Apologies to Churchill)

Posted at 10:05AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Oh and sorry about the extra vowel in your name Richard, lazy typing there. Maybe my fingers need reconditioning?

Posted at 10:17AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Carbon is so in this year

Posted at 10:41AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

We've been using "sausage-wallet" at lot over at the Wellingtonista. You can take it as a large scale interpretation of the commercialisation of sex, and the sad state of the world when Girls of the Playboy Mansion is pretty much the most entertaining thing on TV...

Posted at 11:00AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

"Sausage-wallet"? Dare I ask?

Posted at 11:13AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

You probably don't want to know....

Posted at 11:28AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

'Migration'

As in, we're going to try to change everything we do and the way we do it, in order to keep up with changes in technology that we really don't understand. We're going to market the bejesus out of these changes and promise punters a brave new technological world. We hope it works - the IT guys seem confident.

See: 'Telecom', 'Xtra'.

Posted at 11:49AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Wellingtonista has got me thinking.

Carbonista: A dedicated follower of all the carbon hype.

Terrorista: A "fabulously!" dedicated follower of all the terrorism hype.

Posted at 11:51AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

For most Kiwi's, before 2007, they would have been like Urewherea?

Now, at the end of this year, the word everyone knows about is Urewera.

Posted at 11:57AM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

My vote's for the mulitilingual mashup of Te Qaeda. It's true definition remains to be written...

Posted at 12:01PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Net-Migration is a nice double entendre. As in, when you migrate the net, the net result is migration.

We've been using "sausage-wallet" at lot over at the Wellingtonista.

If you've got it, why not use it?

Posted at 12:09PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Wellingtonista has got me thinking.

That's what we like to hear! Now if only we could get Rex Nicholls to do the same...

Posted at 12:11PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

I have two nominations: robust and random.

When things are going badly in a situation, robust is used by someone in charge who wants to create a sense of calm.

"Despite the increase in offensive language, Parliament is still a robust forum."
"Consultants have establish a robust process for the restructuring."

Random is... OMG, random is just totally random! It's like when something happens that's unexpected or surprising and so you call it random! Even though, scientifically speaking, it's not. Whoa! Random!!!!!

Posted at 12:24PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Probably only a word seen in the library world, but the terrifying term Guybrarian entered the NZ library vernacular in 07 c/o a NY Times article about 'next gen' librarians in the fashion section(?!)

The term clearly refers to poor sops like me: the sole male working in my particular corner of the library world.

Guybrarian received a bit of discussion on the NZ Libs list earlier in the year - mostly pleas by male librarians asking for others not to start using the word to describe them.

Posted at 12:33PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

After a robust and random net migration of carbonista guybrarians Urewara Te Qaeda Terroristas rotated their reconditioned sausage wallets.

Posted at 12:41PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

a NY Times article about 'next gen' librarians in the fashion section(?!)

Derailingly, blurgh. Thanks for reminding me of this. There is nothing lamer than a group of librarians talking about how they reach out to Teh Yoof with their awesomeness and their faux-ironic terms like 'guybrarian'. 'We're cool! Honestly! We're "knowledge brokers"! Look how jazzy and fashionable and Web 2.0 we are!' I don't need to be 'rebranded', thanks. Do. Not. Care. I might even start wearing my hair in a bun and shushing people, just to drive all the obsessive Next Generation librarians batty.

Not that I'm bitter about this, you understand. :)

Posted at 12:45PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

...rotated their reconditioned sausage wallets

The idea of anybody doing either of those things with their sausage wallets (rotating or reconditioning) is truly disturbing!

Makes me think of Daniel Radcliffe on Extras (season two)...

Posted at 12:47PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Danielle, buns are coming back! And shushing is just playing hard to get, so Next Gen & cool. U r stk wf it, soz.

Posted at 12:49PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

After you've had too many sausages in your wallet it starts to get smelly, so reconditioning is a good idea. And rotating it really is the best way to get sausages in without damaging them.

Posted at 12:53PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

Coskriedictory

Definition:
The state of simultaneously lobbying for two contradictory outcomes.

Common examples:
1. Marching to support freedom of speech while simultaneously lobbying for increased censorship.
2. Condemning child abuse while simultaneously offering support to people who beat their kids.

Posted at 12:55PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

if we're allowed phrases, how about "mum and dad investors", in light of all the finance company collapses this year? (another one down this morning, i see)

Posted at 1:12PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

I think David Haywood nomination of 'Coskriedictory' (and definition and examples) are the funniest thing I've read for ages

Posted at 1:29PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

My nomination for best word is 'broconomy'
(it sounds better than it looks).

Its the vast economy of favours, discounts, cash jobs, free work etc that comes from people without much surplus cash, or those that deal with people without much surplus cash. ie, creative industries, and/or lower income demographics.

It especially concerns communities where relationships are stable over reasonable periods, so that favours can be paid and repaid in the future. Its sort of an acknowledgment of community economics.

Posted at 1:58PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

My 2 bits worth...the word "Sustainability".

Posted at 2:19PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

I we need two categories - One for the word that really hits the zeitgeist of the year 2007; and one for the word wore out its welcome in the past year.

For category one I second the nomination for Urewera, in category B, I think terrorist has been done to death.

Posted at 2:28PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

I didn't understand the "re" in "reconditioning", why not just call it something masculine and deceptively simple like "training". "Reconditioning"
is an ugly word to look at, is needlessly hard to say and would seem to be an injury-prone-making sort of process when applied to top athletes.

I also think it is weird that "Yoplait" is not French for yoghurt.

Posted at 2:37PM on 30 Nov 07. Permalink.

"Wayne Barnes" would be my nomination. Not to be confused with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, or anyone with more than one eye.