09-21-2007, 02:48 AM | #1 |
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Words: Jay or Nay Friday
Jay: feature creep. Should be self explanatory with this crowd.
Nay: czar. This week I saw in some paper a bit about Google's 'click fraud czar'. This word needs to be deleted urgently. (Please note: I like the *phrase* feature creep, not necessarily the concept) |
05-09-2008, 09:24 PM | #2 |
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this thread was in the "similar threads" list on one of the [US] threads o' the day. it's old, i know, but today is friday after all (well, technically for me it's been saturday for several hours already), and i like it.
i have to go to bed 3 hours ago so i will leave you all to blackball and incense words as you see fit, and i'll be back to check on you in the morning. (well, later in the morning. or more like early afternoon probably). *nota : for the hypothetical one person confused by random associations of "silent bob", the original poster being from the netherlands, i beleive "jay" is pronounced "yay" and means the opposite of nay. |
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05-10-2008, 09:55 AM | #3 |
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oh now really, you had *hours*, and no-one could come up with anything ??? meta-threads about the words they contain are all the rage this week !
well i'll try to start you off... let's see... jay : squirrel. Should be self explanatory with this crowd. () nay : "cheesy" i read this somewhere recently and it grated (ar ar ar !!) on my nerves. its principal merit seems to be that it actually embodies an example of its definition. |
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Ja: avatamare.
Nein: the phrase "at the end of the day", meaning "finally" or, "when all is said and done". It has spread like kudzu among business people and professional "presenters" worldwide. The book "The Raw Shark Texts" even claims that it is an intentional word virus released with mysterious intent. Stop saying it. |
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i knew i could count on you... (cinq, six, sept...)
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jay: "henceforth", or, if that sounds too stuffy for you, "in the future" or even "from now on".
nyet: "going forward", a blithering idiot who is either a business executive or a business consultant is responsible for this idiocy, I'm certain. You can add to this a never-ending list of similar business-gibberish which I don't wish to mention. Sorry, I've had up to HERE with this kind of new-speak by these fools. Sorry. Coming down now. Watch out below! |
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bravo.
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Jay: 'shingle' for the pebbles on the beach - it's just so perfectly onomatopoeic; it's a one-word poem
Nay: 'literally' when it is misused. |
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There was a period during which all British newsreaders used to say "at this moment in time", when they actually meant "now". Used to drive me up the wall . Luckily it seems to have fallen out of fashion again at this moment in time .
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Jay: Ramekin. This is a beautiful, lovely, magic, superstellar word which slides around the mouth like a cool panacotta and should be used by all the peoples of the world to describe an equally beautiful, lovely, magic or superstellar moment (as in "Oh, look, falling star...how extraordinarily ramekin). Also, crème brûlée (I rest my case).
Nay: "Everyone's talking about..." by newsreaders. I'm not talking about it. If I am not talking about it, everyone is not talking about it. If you say it, you are an idiot and if you say it again I will track you down and give you a pepper-spray enema. Cheers, Marc |
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Jay: emotifaction
Nay: verbing of nouns examples: Let's spa today. Bottom-line this for me. Let's breakfast at Hank's. Action that for later and move on. Pencil me in. |
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"action that" ?? da : nyet.
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Yes, meaning "we will develop a plan for handling that issue". I have someone I do business with regularly who always uses "Action" as a verb, to which I always reply "Action this", but he doesn't get the point, perhaps because he cannot see the accompanying descriptive gesture. (I work at home, what used to be called "telecommuting".)
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