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Passionately? I'm talking about words such as "staycation", "frenemy", and "Brangelina". I don't recall this trend prior to the last few years. When did people start doing this, and why?

I have not heard of some of those (the first two) and it is probably because I avoid anything and everything to do with popular culture.

But people have always used the latest buzz words to spice up their speach. Buisness and "show business" have always been terrible for it.

Just look at the game of buzzword bingo invented for business meetings where managers would talk a load of catchy jargon rather than anything of substance. The same goes for pop culture, always trying to get in new ways of destroying language in order to be "cool" and "with it" (to use some old expressions ).

Arrghh!

Hate them, along with the media luvies that spout such clap-trap.

What is most infuriating about it is that we [as in the general population] tend to suck it up without thinking because it was in a news paper or on Big Brother. People seem to accept the media leading our culture by the nose and blindly repeat it as if it was their own, nothing new in this but Arrgh! No wonder Government is so toothless when then pander to sh!te media organisations that come up with stuff like this!

*Deep breath*

I will say that I do like "Chillax". Heard it over Chrimbo and it made my day; its so corny its cool. So "Coolny" then!

Silver wrote:I avoid anything and everything to do with popular culture.

No you don't.


It's just part of the continuing evolution of human language - it has happened since humans were able to string musematic sounds together and will continue to happen forever, probably.


So chillax.

Albatross wrote:No you don't.

I do so

It's just part of the continuing evolution of human language - it has happened since humans were able to string musematic sounds together and will continue to happen forever, probably.

Although sometimes it is more like the random mutations which cause horrific genetic diseases, rather than the more natural evolution to create a "better" next generation...

@Silver - No, you most definitely don't. You are using an internet forum to talk about popular culture for starters. Plus, you play 40K - which is part of popular culture. Listen to music? I'm willing to bet you don't listen exclusively to Mussorgsky or Stockhausen on your ipod (pop culture icon du jour).

Although sometimes it is more like the random mutations which cause horrific genetic diseases, rather than the more natural evolution to create a "better" next generation...

Oh, of course - I never said it was 'better', just inevitable....

Hmmmm.... just as long as the words Jedward are never mentioned then I'm fine with that..... methinks them and the whole show should be burned off the face of the earth with some form of cyclonic missile..... Mind you it did at least give Mock the Week a decent joke

"Imagine if they were called Peter and Rick"

Ah but this is where a much older word combination comes in for people like Cowell and Jedward - bitch-slap [or is that a Blap?]

Albatross wrote:@Silver - No, you most definitely don't.

Internet tongue in cheek does not come over wvery well, I am sorry

SilverMK2 wrote:...it is probably because I avoid anything and everything to do with popular culture.

That'so in right now, they're calling it popvoiding, it's zeitgeisty.

It can get annoying if you fall behind but I keep my shizzle fo rizzle. It used to be pretty bodacious, turbular, and rad but that faded away especially in the era of googling iPhone and Blackberry reviews.

Neoglisms are far from a new thing, hell Shakespeare supposedly coined a bunch of new words way back in the day.

And as much as pop-culture can suck there's no way I'm not going to follow it especially since I'm a fan of comedy particularly Rifftrax/Mystery Science Theater 3000 - without knowing what the hell is going on in this media frenzied world one would probably miss half the jokes and entertainment out there.

Grignard wrote: Passionately? I'm talking about words such as "staycation", "frenemy", and "Brangelina". I don't recall this trend prior to the last few years. When did people start doing this, and why?

I find it hard to care about something so stupid. I do care that some people care though, because I find it particularly troublesome that given the way the world is they take time out of their day to hate something so inconsequential. That freaks me out a bit.

Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner being referred to as "t-squared" annoyed me because they weren't multiplied by themselves. It should been "2(T)."

I don't hate them, but that's because I don't care for them or want anything to do with them.

I was chillaxin when, then I spied this thread.

GG

Shadowbrand wrote:I don't hate them, but that's because I don't care for them or want anything to do with them.

Similarly like me.

2C4S ITT.

I have taken a dislike of the term "tween".

SilverMK2 wrote:I have not heard of some of those (the first two) and it is probably because I avoid anything and everything to do with popular culture.

I applaud you for never making a Star Wars / Lord of the Rings / Game Show / song / film /
television show reference in casual conversation. I, however, am not so strong.

I mean, use the force, number 1, amirite?

Tyyr wrote:I find it hard to care about something so stupid. I do care that some people care though, because I find it particularly troublesome that given the way the world is they take time out of their day to hate something so inconsequential. That freaks me out a bit.

The internet must terrify you.



Meanwhile, people make up words. As we all know 90% of everything is rubbish and this holds for newly invented words as well. In quick time the novelty wears off and the newly minted word is taken to the paddock out the back and put out of its misery. The good words hang around, and this (along with stealing words from other languages) is how English evolves.

sebster wrote:The internet must terrify you.

Oh it does...it does.

I always thought those kinda words were fun. I like to "guesstimate", "chillax", and "fun-shei" my house. I dunno hate it if you want, just don't burn my hizzle down for being a pop-culture fan. That'd make me a saaaaad panda.

Right. Sad panda...so no South Park references either, eh?

I only use neologisms from the late 80's and early 90's. Everything is awesome and you all need to chill out and scope these rad moves i'm gonna rip on this half pipe.

I'm just amused that neologism is such an old word (1483 according to the wiki)

Maybe we should only use words from the 1400s?

ShumaGorath wrote:I only use neologisms from the late 80's and early 90's. Everything is awesome and you all need to chill out and scope these rad moves i'm gonna rip on this half pipe.

How can you not like this word?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1754#comic

That was Futarded.

While the term "Brangelina" brings about images of some mutated two headed multi limbed celiberty monstrosity randomly grabbing children to add to it's collection,I don't really have an issue with "pop culture" terms/referances.
For good or for bad language evolves.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner being referred to as "t-squared" annoyed me because they weren't multiplied by themselves. It should been "2(T)."

It's only because the mathmatical world at large cannot agree on the square root of minus 1.

Ahtman wrote:I have taken a dislike of the term "tween".

I find myself using that word quite a bit, ever since the game room at my FLGS (And Dakka...) seem to have been overrun with them.

malfred wrote:How can you not like this word?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1754#comic

Oh, that term applies to me something fierce!!!