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"sloppelganger" "agentrification". #neologisms #AI

*The "My Boyfriend is AI" glossary #neologisms #AI www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...

*Instead of protesting when people label you "slop," you should gaze in the mirror and see where the slop is dripping *I'm wondering what's "sloppy" about me personally and the answer is really kind of a LOT. #detournement #pastiche #parody #cutandpaste #hallucination #handwaving #neologisms

*Instead of protesting when people label you "slop," you should gaze in the mirror and see where the slop is dripping *I'm wondering what's "sloppy" about me personally and the answer is really kind of a LOT. #detournement #pastiche #parody #cutandpaste #hallucination #handwaving #neologisms

*Instead of protesting when people label you "slop," you should gaze in the mirror and see where the slop is dripping *I'm wondering what's "sloppy" about me personally and the answer is really kind of a LOT. #detournement #pastiche #parody #cutandpaste #hallucination #handwaving #neologisms

*Instead of protesting when people label you "slop," you should gaze in the mirror and see where the slop is dripping *I'm wondering what's "sloppy" about me personally and the answer is really kind of a LOT. #detournement #pastiche #parody #cutandpaste #hallucination #handwaving #neologisms

A lot of this time has been dedicated to "hurrying up and waiting," and so I have had some time to sit here and think.

And I came up with silly personalized nerd names for all my email box, task, calendar, etc. labels!! 😻

I will only share a few, out of respect for your time:

☸️ Ellimenory
  💠 This is the name for the category label that holds all of my various email boxes in one place 
  💠 Etymology: Elli- (me!) + limen (Gk. λιμήν, "harbor," "port") + -ory (Lat. -orium, "place for")

☸️ Ellisallagment
  💠 Meaning: These are financial tasks, obligations, dates, or communications. Anything related with financial or money matters.
  💠 Etymology: Elli- (me!) + allagē (Gk. ἀλλαγή, "exchange," "barter") + -ment (Lat. -mentum, "result," "act of") 

☸️ Ellisbibliphiloca
  💠 Meaning: The category label for the list of books I own that were authored and/or published by personal friends.
  💠 Etymology: Ellis- (me!) + biblíon (Gk. βιβλίον, "book") + philía (Gk. φιλία, "friendship") + -ca (Gk. thēkē, "receptacle") 

☸️ Ellisbiblisaureca
  💠 Meaning: My "treasure" archive of books to read and of things to do and to explore. Someone found it interesting that I choose to treasure the unknown rather than attaching this word to books I'd already read and known that I liked. I just said, "Why would I hold onto a future responsibility I didn't treasure enough to make the burden worth it?"
  💠 Etymology: Ellis- (me!) + biblíon (Gk. βιβλίον, "book") + thēsauros (Gk. θησαυρός, "treasure," "storehouse") + -ca (Gk. thēkē, "receptacle")

☸️ Ellistheronomy
  💠 Meaning: All tasks and calendar events and communications directly related to my personal physical and mental health.
  💠 Etymology: Elli- (me!) + therapeía (Gk. θεραπεία, "healing," "care," "service") + -nomy (Gk. νομία, "system of laws," "management")

☸️ Ellithekium
  💠 Meaning: My savings account. 😺
  💠 Etymology: Elli- (me!) + thek (Gk. , "case," "box," "chest," "receptacle") + -ium (Lat. -ium, "a place for")

☸️ Ellymiktry
  💠 Meaning: The box that holds "All the Other Things™."
  💠 Etymology: Elli- (me!) + mikta (Gk. μικτά, "mixed things," from sýmmikta) + -ry (Eng. "place of," "practice of")

That's not even a quarter of them all. Dear gods, please tell me it isn't just me? 😅💙♾️

#Neologisms #Etymology #AncientGreek #Latin #Linguistics #Organization #Nerd #Worldbuilding #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Language #IsItJustMe

*So, do those papers have any distinct commonalities? Scientists can "use AI" for most anything, like, say, buttering your toast or commuting to work #neologisms *Some nice counterexamples here of "lawyers using AI" #slopwork www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n4dvorjnln6nbtkbvn5jynus/post/3m2dsokjhnk26

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Exp...

#neologisms
#antifa

New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication highlight:

➡️ The Role of #Neologisms in the #Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up #Social #Change?

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70004

Read our interview with author Greta Zella:
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-the-role-of-neologisms-in-the-climate-change-debate-can

The study bridges #linguistics and #environmental #psychology to show how new words help conceptualize climate issues and potentially trigger social tipping points.

#OpenScience #ClimateChange

Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.

It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.

https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/

#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics

Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.

It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.

https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/

#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics

Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.

It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.

https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/

#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics

Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.

It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.

https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/

#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics

Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.

It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.

https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/

#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics

A blog post filled with words and things: https://daisybrain.medium.com/some-important-suggestions-to-fix-english-time-234034a27621 #puns #language #neology #neologisms

Merriam-Webster has started a slang dictionary, if you've been wondering what on earth "skibidi", "cheugy", or "high-key" means:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang

#slang #language #dictionary #words #neologisms #lexicography #LanguageChange

The Strunk cost fallacy:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/the-strunk-cost-fallacy/

#language #books #EnglishUsage #writing #WritingCommunity #blog #neologisms #grammar #prescriptivism

The Strunk cost fallacy

Myths have serious sticking power. This is true not just of the myths of antiquity but also of more modern and niche types, like the myths of English usage. It seems that nothing will ever stop people peeving pointlessly about split infinitives, double negatives, passive voice, singular they, &c.

One thing that makes usage myths sticky, and spready, is that when we’ve gone to the trouble of learning something, we’re often reluctant to unlearn it, even in the face of contradictory truth – especially when that knowledge gives us a pleasurable feeling of authority or expertise. Renouncing it means accepting that we’ve wasted our time, so instead we double down.

This makes it a form of sunk cost fallacy or sunk cost effect. The term is from economics but has spread to more general use. I’m about to spread it further, with a goofy twist: Doubling down on a bogus rule of language use because you’ve invested time or cognitive effort into learning it is hereby known as the Strunk cost fallacy (or Strunk cost effect).

Regrettably, there is no way to include E. B. White in the coinage without spoiling the pun, but both he and William Strunk Jr. bear some responsibility for promulgating a range of egregious misunderstandings about English grammar, usage, and ‘correctness’.

The dogmatic tone in those authors’ influential Elements of Style also fuels, among some of its devotees, intolerance of non-standardized dialects and informal varieties of English, because readers gain (or strengthen) the impression that in language use there can be only one right way. This is another fallacy, an insidious and socially toxic one.

If you find evidence that you have a mistaken belief about language use – it happens to us all – then my advice is to heed that evidence. Instead of allowing your defences to reject the possibility that you’ve wasted your time learning and maybe promoting a falsity, embrace the opportunity to revise your beliefs. Don’t fall for the Strunk cost fallacy.

In closing, here’s a related piece of snark:

Accidentally typed “Strunk and Why” and this sums up my feelings better than any tired rant I might muster

— Stan Carey (@stancarey.bsky.social) Oct 16, 2024 at 20:33

(I tried embedding an equivalent Mastodon post, but it didn’t work the way Bluesky’s did. I’m using both platforms for now.)

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A few other coinages you might like: Whom’s Law of Hypercorrection; Indo-European Jones; scary quotes; the apostrophantom; the Typographic Oath for editors.

#books #EBWhite #grammar #humour #language #neologisms #peevology #phrases #prescriptivism #TheElementsOfStyle #usage #WilliamStrunkJr

Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?

Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.

#føroyskt #WordOfTheDay

#EURALEX2018 🎥 video lectures are online.

- Imputing #CEFR levels via #Wiktionary views (joint research with Robert Lew): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_wolfer_look_up_behavior

- Preference in the use of neologistic synonyms in the #German Language (talk with Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_klosa_kuckelhaus_treatment

#linguistics #lexicography #neologisms

With EVs replacing ICE vehicles, what's going to replace #Petrolhead?

#Neologisms

I'm tryin' out new phrases. Whaddyathink?

"Pentagion"

used in a sentence :-
A Pentagion burned across the Middle-East.

#neologisms

I'm trying out new phrases. Whaddyathink?

"... the late prime-minister, Rishi Sunak ..."

#neologisms

As an early advocate of "slop", as in "AI slop", I'm happy to see that it seems to be catching on.

#neologisms #language #slop

Today in BoneQuest History for August 21st 2024 "SO SO DIFFERENT" https://bonequest.com/9287 #bonequest :deuce: #cartography #deuce_pants_spigot #geography #neologisms #single_panel

My Specialty is Special Tea
https://daisybrain.medium.com/my-specialty-is-special-tea-75c0a971bf79
#words #jokes #puns #dadjokes #neologisms

'headitor' for a person who does professional styling and makeup #words #neologisms

#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 14 hours ago

Morenazi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morenazi
Morenazi or morenaryan are derogatory terms to describe non-white, of racial superiority in favor of whites and conspiracy theories such as the persecution of whites and repudiation of non-white immigrants

#Rightwing #AntiZionism #Neologisms #Violence

Learn Englisch the EZ Whey: https://daisybrain.medium.com/learn-englisch-the-ez-whey-cd55342a1c7b
#puns #jokes #language #neologisms #English #wordplay

New word I heard on a meteorology podcast: "medicane". Sounds like a drug, but it's a blend of "Mediterranean" and "hurricane", referring to a hurricane-like storm in the Mediterranean

No entry in major dictionaries yet, but give it time. It's in Wiktionary, the earliest citation from 2007.

#words #neologisms #weather #meteorology #storm #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Comedy! Because I say it is!
https://medium.com/@daisybrain/comedy-because-i-say-it-is-afee9dce2c25

#comedy #humor #jokes #neologisms

My new word today is Fungry- if you look it up, the internet is wrong. It’s not f’ing hungry or super hungry. It’s hungry for fun. Usually at 7 or 8 pm I get fungry. #neology #neologisms

A brand new wordy, pun-filled post from my Daisybrain blog: https://medium.com/@daisybrain/wordrow-4e5cc8fd81b3

#puns #domains #dadjokes #humor #neologisms #silly #sillysunday

According to my blog statistics, you will be the first person to view my blog post, "Latest Releases from the Department of New Definitions"

https://medium.com/@daisybrain/latest-releases-from-the-department-of-new-definitions-88483e8ec14e

#puns #wordplay #neology #neologism #neologisms #newwords #wordfun #humor

In a previous corpus-linguistic study (https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecz033), we found that #neologisms built only with 'native' #language material are accepted faster into the German language than #loanwords from #English.

Back then, we operationalized 'acceptance into the language' by the amount of 'flagging' (use of linguistic markers, e.g. quotes or "so-called").

This blog post happened: Desperately Important New Words and Thoughts from Daisybrain
https://medium.com/@daisybrain/desperately-important-new-words-and-thoughts-from-daisybrain-f210879bf8a5
#humor #puns #neologisms #neology #jokes #wacky #fun #funread #blogging

This blog post happened: Desperately Important New Words and Thoughts from Daisybrain
https://medium.com/@daisybrain/desperately-important-new-words-and-thoughts-from-daisybrain-f210879bf8a5
#humor #puns #neologisms #neology #jokes #wacky #fun #funread #blogging

This blog post happened: Desperately Important New Words and Thoughts from Daisybrain
https://medium.com/@daisybrain/desperately-important-new-words-and-thoughts-from-daisybrain-f210879bf8a5
#humor #puns #neologisms #neology #jokes #wacky #fun #funread #blogging

The Radical #Reinvention of the #EnglishLanguage #Neologisms, #slang, #jargon, #acronyms and #loanwords are reshaping the language right before our eyes. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2023/04/20/radical-reinvention-english-language

Our other Mastodon instance is still in limbo, so here's a new reintroduction. “A Way with Words” is an upbeat and lively public radio show and podcast about language examined through culture, history, and family. You can hear it coast-to-coast by radio in the United States, in every major podcast app, and on our website https://waywordradio.org. #language #linguistics #sociolinguistics #etymology #neologisms #slang #folklore #newwords #dictionaries #radio #publicradio #podcasts #podcasting

Join co-host Grant Barrett online for language and linguistics smack talk and back talk this Wednesday! He'll be appearing in support of Metafilter, an online community he's been a part of since 1999. Lots of great events on the sked, and more to come! https://www.eventbrite.com/x/metafilter-online-events-tickets-469997263467 #Linguistics #VideoChat #Metafilter #Language #Lexicon #NewWords #Neologisms #WOTY #WordOfTheYear #PublicRadio #Podcast #Podcasting #Etymology

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New Early Stage speakers to talk fundraising strategies, growth marketing and PR - TC Early Stage SF goes down on April 28, and we are getting pretty damn excited about it!
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