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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5354 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 1 of 12 22 December 2011 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Something which I just came across. A quick read for those who would like a good laugh whilst learning some
new ingeniously created words. Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational New Words Contest Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2. Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high 8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it. 9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. Karmageddon : It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer. 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido : All talk and no action. 14. Dope-ler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.) : Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating. The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are: 1. Coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted, adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3. Abdicate , v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade , v. to attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly, adj. impotent. 6. Negligent , adj. absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown. 7. Lymph , v. to walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle, n. olive-flavored mouthwash. 9. Flatulence+, n. emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash , n. a rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle, n. a humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude, n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. 13. Pokemon, n. a Rastafarian proctologist. 14. Oyster, n. a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 15. Frisbeetarianism, n. the belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Circumvent, n. an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men Taken from - new-words-contest/">Link 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6060 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 2 of 12 22 December 2011 at 4:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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The definitions remind me of The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6338 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 3 of 12 22 December 2011 at 6:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Awesome post :)
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| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4747 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 4 of 12 23 December 2011 at 2:16am | IP Logged | ||
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The top 6 are mainly derived from "Britain"...Sorry I had to say it haha.
Definitely some interesting ones though, especially in the second half of the list! Edited by NickJS on 23 December 2011 at 2:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5206 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 5 of 12 23 December 2011 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Ha ha, nice.
It would be fun to see what kind of new words and new definitions for old words people on the forum can come up with. New words: Activisit, n. - What you get from door-to-door charity workers. Olimpics, n. - Sporting event for injured people. New definitions: Borehole, n. - A place in which to put the insufferably boring. Rugged, adj. - Covered with rugs. Export, n. - A former port. Pity, adj. - Filled with things to fall into. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5799 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 6 of 12 23 December 2011 at 10:12am | IP Logged | ||
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internot - a 3G phone in most of Scotland.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6370 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 7 of 12 23 December 2011 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||
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A few language-related ones:
HTLOL: Online forum dedicated to learning chatspeak Spelling pee: Competition based on writing one's name in the snow Chantonese: A monotonal Chinese language Phonethics: The prescriptivist standpoint that nonstandard pronunciation is morally wrong Monodick: A monolingual person who insists everyone speaks their language even when abroad Polygloat: A polyglot who brags about their linguistic achievents Theyology: The study of "they" as a singular pronoun Proto Indy-European: Technical classification of Heinrich Schliemann Wanderlost: Adjective describing someone who has studied a vast number of languages without really learning any of them 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5206 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 8 of 12 24 December 2011 at 1:54am | IP Logged | ||
Ha ha, I love polygloat in particular. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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