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(considering that this is quite an old e-mail and that this kind of e-mail tends to go around everyone on the planet at some point, it may have been posted on this site in some form before, but I didn't get round to checking)
The Washington Post recently published a contest for readers in which they were asked to supply alternative meanings for various words. The following were some of the winning entries:
Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly
answer the door in your nightie.
Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
The Washington Post's Style Invitational 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 some recent winners:
1) Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2) Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
4) Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
5) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
6) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
7) 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.
8) Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Any more to add?
Yet I'm still *delusional about saying "this is yart"...
Ah!...so would this be reinyartnation?mmmm...I think I'm trademarking that one! Reinyartnation®...thank you.
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Reinyartnation
ROTFLMA. Yes indeed, it is reinyartnation. It might be easier to say reinyartation (i.e. without the n) though. Strictly speaking I guess it would apply to a topic that has been posted at least three times.
I agree. I believe the intrusive n in reinyartnation is a totally unnecessary holdover from reintarntion. It has an excuse for being there in reintarnation but not in reinyartation.
Would you like to buy a vowel, Alex?
>I agree.
me too, but as copyright(s) holder on yart®, I'm just more mincemeat.
Did you remember to copyright all derivative products?
How does reintarnation have any more n's than the original reincarnation? Isn't it therefore a holdover from reincarnation, however totally unnecessary it may be?
or, it may have been posted on this site in some form
But the same n is in reincarnation!
but not in yart. qed
formerly known as etaoin...
I prefer pâté, myself.
I do have a serious question about reincarnation. Is there a link between that word and carne-associated words associated with flesh? e.g. Carnal desires or carnivorous? It would make sense ... to be re-established in the flesh = reincarnation. Also, is there any etymological link to carnival?.
Carnival = Carne vale = Goodbye to meat, being the entry into the fasting period of Lent.
oh yes, me, too!
formerly known as etaoin...
Carnival certainly shares a common etymology with the carne-associated, flesh-related words (Originally meaning raising flesh/removing meat).
I'm not sure of a reincarnation link though, there is a link bettween the 'carne' words and carnation, but that's referring to the colour and, I assume, the flower. I wonder if it has anything to do with 'returning to flesh' or rebirth?
EDIT: I just read Faldage's post above - explains the removing meat and incarnation thingy. Sorry I didn't notice it before - hence any repetition.
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