What the HELL is wrong with the guy who wrote that article? I think we should put all the prescriptivists on an island and in 100 years we won't be able to understand each other any more, anyway, so they won't bother us.
"Longneck," described as "beer served in a long-necked bottle," just now made it to Webster's.
Why NOT define it? They used to serve beer in "stubbies" here, and Newfoundland beer bottles are still stubbier than their mainland counterpart. Please tell me why "longneck" isn't useful as the opposite of "stubbies".
McJob Clearly this guy has never been unforunate enought to have had to work at one, or he wouldn't diss the cleverness (or conciseness) of the term.
Headbanger Has he ever watched anyone at a hard-rock or heavy metal show? What other more erudite word would he use?
Frankenfood This one is also clever, but maybe cleverness is no longer allowed in modern day. I'm sure the people who combined such words as "twist" and "fiddle" to make "twiddle" were just as clever as the ones who coined "Frankenfoods".
gastroesophageal reflux What's wrong with this one? Enough people have it that it's talked about in common conversations. Why NOT put it in the dictionary?
I don't get what this guy's problem is. Of eleven words he discusses, I don't see any, except maybe scuzzball, that are redundant with words already in existence.
