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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread user-contribution dictionaries #171725 11/28/2007 9:24 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass we've all come to know and love <irony> the Urban Dictionary. Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary might be considered a more serious attempt at the concept, although the source of words is virtually the same meme pool. every month, M-W picks some of their favorite recent submissions. for November, e.g. blamestorm (verb) : to discuss why a deadline was missed, a project failed, or who is to be blamed or to take responsibility <The managers spent the meeting blamestorming about the lost contract.> embed (noun) : an instance or period of a journalist traveling with a military unit; an instance or period of being embedded <If we're on an embed and we're dealing with these Iraqi forces, they're going to be very careful in what they say.> searchability (noun) : the ability to be searched upon (as an Internet page) <We must optimize our Web pages for searchability.> y'alternative also y'allternative (noun) : alternative country music <The new country music station plays y'alternative.> embed and searchability (as nouns) seem like obvious extensions hardly worthy of notice; corporate-speak, such as blamestorm, always seems to grate; DJ-speak, such as y'allternative usually shows a little more imagination. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: user-contribution dictionaries tsuwm #171794 12/01/2007 5:26 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Blamestorm--now, that's one of my best things! ;-) y'alternative-- I hate that the not-beautiful-but-I-love-it-anyway y'all is associated with something as awful as...as...I can't even put it: c.m. [shudder] (Which, I must say, my daughter loves; if I hadn't been there at the time, I might have wondered whether she was truly mine!) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: user-contribution dictionaries Jackie #171795 12/01/2007 5:35 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Jackie, seriously, ten percent of the American population literally do not know who is their biological father dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: user-contribution dictionaries dalehileman #171796 12/01/2007 5:39 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Originally Posted By: dalehileman Jackie, seriously, ten percent of the American population literally do not know who is their biological father dale, I think that's a type-4 phrase. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: user-contribution dictionaries Buffalo Shrdlu #171798 12/01/2007 6:47 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA In what way dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: user-contribution dictionaries dalehileman #171800 12/01/2007 8:02 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont umm, it was so obscure that it makes no sense? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: user-contribution dictionaries Buffalo Shrdlu #171802 12/01/2007 8:20 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Not to me, but I am an ancient pushin at the brink of senility dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: user-contribution dictionaries dalehileman #171815 12/02/2007 2:57 PM Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631 Hydra addict Hydra addict Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631 Is that true, dale? Isn't that like 30,000,000 people? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... 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