Tuesday, June 24, 2014

I'm no one to talk about ...


People using words incorrectly or turning letters into words that have not been acceptable for most English majors knowledgeable acuity on the topic.
Although, there is a place where new words appear to be popping up readily and that is in these below dictionaries that most are familiar with The New Oxford, and Merriam Webster who do have reputations to be reckoned with: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oxford-english-dictionary-new-words-for-march-2014-include-cted-beatboxer-and-bestie-9196992.html
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"More of March 2014 entries list with new definitions:
bathroom break (n.): a short period of time within the duration of an activity (often of a prescribed or limited duration) taken to use the toilet.
beatboxer (n.): a performer who uses (amplified) vocal effects to imitate the sounds and rhythms of hip-hop music.
bestie (n.): a person’s best friend; a very close friend.
bookaholic (n.): a habitual and prolific reader; a compulsive book buyer.
crap shoot (n.): a situation or undertaking regarded as uncertain, risky, or unpredictable.
c**tish (adj., coarse slang): nasty, highly unpleasant; extremely annoying.
dead white male (n.): a dead Caucasian male writer, philosopher, etc., whose pre-eminence is challenged as disproportionate to his cultural significance, and attributed to a historical bias towards his gender and ethnic group.
DIYer (n.): A person who engages in do-it-yourself activities; an amateur (in construction, repair, etc.).
do-over (n.): an instance or chance of doing something for a second or further time, after an unsuccessful or unsatisfactory first attempt.
honky-tonker (n.): a person who owns, works in, or frequents a cheap, sleazy bar or nightclub, typically one where country music is played.
scissor-kick (v): to perform a kick which involve a scissor-like motion of the legs, as in swimming or soccer.
wackadoodle (adj.): crazy, mad; eccentrice

The full new words list for March 2014 can be found online here."


http://www.merriam-webster.com/new-words/2014-update.htm
 below:
 Of course they have boards of people with much higher intelligence than me making those decisions on what is a good new idea for any and all words, but...
Why then do I hear news TV journalists still finding new ones that I can't seem to locate in all of techno-dom! See I do it all of the time, but no one here is checking me for appropriate usage and I don't make the BIG bucks anyway, so who cares...really! Today, earlier while a reporter was discussing two missing toddlers he said that the mother was "shooken", yep just like my techno-dom it too was underlined from this techno system's spell check! I Googled it, oh and Googled is also incorrect according to this spell check, any-who...after I searched thinking it sounded off never mind that I made sure everyone of my Facebook locations got the missing toddlers story, PS they are still missing as of this writing... here's the story link:
GREAT NEWS AND THEY HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE WOODS!!!!!!!! THE GIRL AND THE BOY!!!!! Just in: Unconfirmed!

https://www.wordnik.com/words/shooken  if you tap this site  you will see that shooken has no definition, so is therefore NOT a word!

He should have said the mother was shaken from this experience.

So now I sound mean again, but no, I did not mention their name, see not even if the perpetrator of this minimal verbal disastrous mistake on air was male or female. Perhaps after they were looking back at the footage of the segment they felt just terrible... and even embarrassed. So me calling them out on using the made up tense of a word is not so awful, been there done that, and I own it daily and maybe that's what they should do too! Campaign for "Shooken" to be an acceptable tense of shook! who knows with the liberal reaction to these last few years of those above dictionary companies realizing to change with the times...GEEZ I hear that song in my head...
http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-times-they-are-achangin-lyrics-bob-dylan.html

That's it for tonight and now allow me to be the very first to wish all  of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
 

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