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Stephen Colbert can now add 'linguist' to his resume. His "truthiness" was awarded word of the year by the American Dialect Society. Defined as "the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true," truthiness was not in fact coined by Colbert, but definitely reinvented. One example of truthiness might be Gothamist's publication of Donald Trump as a sperm freezing, propecia doused publicity whore...sort of true, but not proven. Colbert used "truthiness" back in October 2005 and many news venues reported on it then, including Oprah and Nightline. The NY Times reported on Colbert's "truthiness" as well, though they referred to it as "trustiness." Colbert's response? "Trustiness isn't even a word."
The American Dialect Society reviewed a whole batch of spankin' new vocabulary (warning: pdf link). Here are a few that Gothamist is definitely adding to its lexicon:
'muffin top'- the bulge of flesh hanging over the top of low-rider jeans
'Cruisazy'-crazy in the manner of Tom Cruise
'Ex-Lax option'-nuclear option; immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq
Gothamist wants to be the first to nominate Jake Dobkin's 'lactarded' for next year's review. Got any suggestions of your own? And bonus points for anybody who can use 'muffin top', 'Cruisazy' and 'Ex-Lax option' in a single sentence.
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Is it asking too much that the staff at Gothamist apply a moment of their time to spell and grammar check prior to posting?
'muffin top', 'Cruisazy' and 'Ex-Lax option'
Entertainment reporter Kiki Vanyeah was too busy snickering at Bush's recently developed muffin tops to pay attention to his cruisazy denials that an ex-lax option would benefit Iraqis. That fool needs to pull up a seat on the truthiness couch!
Tom, with his cruisazy theories about post-partum depression, is an advocate for the ex-lax option only in Iraq, but obviously not for his sperm's occupation of the womb of the ex-muffintopped mother of his demon-seed, Katie. You shoulda pulled out Holmes.
Or not post items that are two months old?
Lactarded has been around for years. Your little club did not invent this word.
Wow, I never knew that linguistics was all about making up new words. That sounds like a fun major. Why does Chomsky have to make it so complicated?
Call me cruisazy but I'm sure I've heard terms like "muffin top" and "neologism" before 2005, and I find the subject analogy implied by "Ex-Lax option" offensive. It's our legislators that can be likened to impacted feces; not our soldiers.
This happened like two months ago. Why is it being posted now?
cause we felt it was good to give you guys yet another thing to bitch about? seriously, have you seen the outside world recently?
I hope Gothamist realizes that the word "lactarded" has been around for sometime.
Did you think you were as clever as one Stephen Colbert?
Apparently, whatever fumes are causing you to make constant and obvious grammar/spelling errors must also be altering your state of mind giving you subsequent delusions of grandeur.
quailtard