anti-dis-un-lingo 2.0
Fun with vocabulary. A hip blog page.
Anti-Dis-Un-Lingo 2.0
opposed to people who are opposed to overused clichés. But not necessarily in favor of overused clichés. Because without overuse, a cliché is just a word.
Edge: edge, edgy, edge case, at the edge,
this Week: ubuntu, inured, *$ = starbucks (get it?), accelerant = coffee, fusty mephitic tang mung backronym
Time-less: A-List, froth, boing, idiocracy, bubble, un[anything], mashup, drupal, wiki
2 Weeks Ago: long tail,
my Favorites: hip, on the lam, groovy, moisture = rain,
Over the Top: disintermediation, anti-dis-un-lingo 2.0 mint-and-terry-in-ism (as 1 word = antidisunlingo2.0mintandterryinism)
Lingo defined: Similar to jargon. A vocabulary used by a particular group. (source)
Is edge a full fledged cliché?
Fledge defined: to become well enough covered with feathers to be able to fly. Generally used to describe the process of young birds leaving the nest for their first flights. (source).
This raises the question – is edge fledged? And if so, to what extent? How fledged is edge? Is it full fledged, or partially fledged? Un-Fledged?
To the best of my knowledge, the word fledge is not used on any A-List blog.
The word antidisestablishmentarianism, with 28 letters, is commonly regarded as the longest accepted word in the English language.
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