Monday, July 21, 2008

COINAGE

(sigh)

I can't keep up. Take a gander at some of the new "words" out there.

shrediting - "shredding" someone through editing

fisking - a point-by-point refutation of a news story

forgettitude - that which occurs when you forget about a word YOU coined [Steve Colbert]
truthiness - what you want the facts to be rather than what they actually are [Steve Colbert]

veritasiness - Latin version of truthiness

bellyfeel - blind acceptance of an idea

blackwhite - habit of claiming black is white and white is black

doublethink - active process of rewriting the past

crimethink - thoughts that are unorthodox

goodthink - opposite of crimethink

duckspeak - speak without thinking

jingoism - extreme patriotism

disfluency - inability to speak well. (Oh, the irony!)

(sigh)

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