tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394922.post115438190131721481..comments2024-02-19T00:54:37.767-08:00Comments on The Columnist Manifesto: Language creativityOscar Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05558650379298098292noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394922.post-1154391878592347902006-07-31T17:24:00.000-07:002006-07-31T17:24:00.000-07:00Oscar, how quickly you forget that you and I came ...Oscar, how quickly you forget that you and I came up with the "new" usage for the mathematical word <I>Googleplex</I> to refer to a multiplex cinema, shortly after they became a ubiquitous feature of the suburban landscape, sometime during our high school days. Obviously, we weren't the only ones, since it was a joke on <I>Futurama</I>, but you heard it here first!<BR/><BR/>--<BR/>olqva - (1) A woman's name, common in the Scandanavian penninusla. (2) A Klingon toast (3) the old kiva.@wendydesignshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12496827663647388930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394922.post-1154389339764123732006-07-31T16:42:00.000-07:002006-07-31T16:42:00.000-07:00If 174,000 people were to create a new word at the...If 174,000 people were to create a new word at the same time, that would be quite an extraordinary wordgasm.<BR/><BR/>Note that <A HREF="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wordgasm" REL="nofollow">wordgasm</A> is in the Urban Dictionary, but it doesn't include my definition -- the simultaneous creation of a new word by two or more people.Tonyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10156140761362996117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394922.post-1154383493471975292006-07-31T15:04:00.000-07:002006-07-31T15:04:00.000-07:00As you no doubt know, Oscar, 'eyedar' gets some 'g...As you no doubt know, Oscar, 'eyedar' gets some 'g-hits' (as hipper folks calls the results of a google search.) That word is for me like Colbert's 'truthiness' (the American Dialect Society's current word of the year, of course) -- it's a word I love, but find a hard time using. <BR/><BR/>You just gotta get eyedar into high schools. <BR/><BR/>But Tonya's word, I'm still pondering that one ...Mr. Verbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04048931596146402872noreply@blogger.com