I Kan’t SEE a Thing

Resently, the SEE key on my MakBook stopped working. This is annoying, but it kould have been worse. As you kan see, a ‘k’ or an ‘s’ is easily substituted, and for more formal kommuniation, I have taken to kopying and pasting the letter SEE. This takes up a bit of time, sine I kan’t just hit Kommand-SEE to kopy.

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Ignore the ignorant!

Expunge the sponges!

Down With Gravity!

Freedomination!

Time Again for New Words from Daisybrain

New words, better than the tired, old words you’ve grown used to:

• Ashamorse [ə-ˈshām-hȯrs] The state of being ashamed and having remorse. This word came from my teenage daughter. A related version: shamorse. 
• Arborcide [är-bər-sīd] The murder of trees (“We’re not into arborcide – we have an artificial Christmas tree.”)
• Pizzarito [pēt-sə-rē-tō] Make a pizza on a torilla, roll it up & you have a pizzarito.
• Afraud [a-frȯd] African email scams
• Christmasochist [kris-mə-sə-kist] Someone who takes on way too much at Christmas
• Kwanzaaholic* [kwän-zə-hȯ-lik] Someone who’s a bit over the top with Kwanzaa
• Vaccumulate [va-kyüm-ə-lāt] To accumulate vacuums
• Tesslatte [tes-lä-tā] My drink of choice when I am driving my (future) Tessla
• Placebotox [plə-ˈsē-bō-täk] A saline injection substituting for an actual botox treatment
• Extravagansett* [ik-ˌstra-və-ˈgan-zət] Any celebration in Narragansett, Rhode Island

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*Courtesy Auntie Linda

To try out some older new words, click the daisy:

Read this and You Can Pretend You are in My Brain

Here are some recent thinks:

• A name for a company that cleans up mildew: Mildon’t
• I just saw “free range eggs” on the menu of this diner. Why would anyone put eggs in cages in the first place?

New Words for Old

Slight misspellings can create a new world of words. It’s like the genetic mutations that make evolution possible. So, here’s to the evolution of the language:

• Independance: A solo dance
• Burgerlar: A hamburger thief

Brand New Words for the Mid-2000-Teens

Twitterror: A mistake on Twitter, like a post over 140 characters that gets cut off mid-sentence. (I twitterred, and now I look like an idiotwit.)

Nonunconventional Post

OK, we all know about the regular ‘ventions: intervention, convention, invention…. But what about the less conventional ‘ventions? Allow me to introduce some worthy, new  ‘ventions for your consideration: