May 2010
1 post
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No, no, no, no, no. Banned along with pretty much every other combination of Twitter with another word.
March 2010
6 posts
Irregardless
As a nonstandard word combining “regardless” and “irrespective,” it is allowed just to piss off language pedants.
Imagication
As a term for a feat only possible with modern communication technology: when a person uses social media to present it as if they were on a vacation somewhere, while remaining at home or even at work, it is banned if for no other reason that simply for being too similar to the earlier banned fake word staycation.
Net-lag
Defined as “the period during which time two people text or instant message each other nearly identical comments.” It’s cutesy, which is a strike against it, but not overly so. It’s also a fairly straight forward fake word. The panel finds it allowable.
Nontent
Short for “non-content,” as in, something so pointless it might as well not exist. (editor’s note: as in this blog.) This panel believes there is insufficient information to make final determination. Still, the panel suggests avoiding the word and referring to such content a “fucking dumb.”
Twitterati
As a term for users of Twitter, it is banned as requested by Pamela Mitchell. While were at it, let’s ban literati, technorati, digerati and fake words suffixed with -rati to create a new elite class of whatevers.
Etailer
As a term for a retailer who only does business online, using, instead of a real store with real productus, electrons, e-mail and e-faux items, it is banned.
July 2009
12 posts
Minimoon
As a term for a post-nuptial vacation taken not to a lavish honeymoon destination but to an economical one where the intent is stay in bed and have sex all day, it is banned, though preferable to the term “sexcation.”
Blogosphere
As a term to discribe the relm of the New Media Douche Bag, some argue that it should be allowed until a universal acceptance of the different meanings of “Internet,” “Intertubes” and “Interwebs” has been reached. The term is certainly mainstream and is often used on television to refer to What The Kids Are Saying, that alone is enough for this one-man panel to...
Totes
As a shortened version of totally, as in “She totes left the bar crawl before the third bar,” the word is banned. It is an acceptable noun for a bag, as in “She lost her tote before we got the third bar.”
Misunderestimate
One of the first words George W. Bush made up, this one following the disputed presidential election. No, the one in 2000. Broken down to its basic elements, the word makes sense when discussing Mr. Bush. Underestimate: Guess a value too low. Mis–: Bad, erroneous or lack of.
Over the next eight years, it became painfully obvious that Americans had erroneously not guessed a value low enough for...
Enterstayment
A concoction by Verizon to describe staying home and watching television. The word, which is completely unnecessary, is banned. The company’s common usage home enterstayment, which seems to be defined as “staying home and watching television at home,” is also banned.
Uncrustable
As the proper noun for a line of Smucker’s frozen, ravioli-like sandwiches, the word, which Jeff Houck rightfully argues describes the crustless pucks perfectly, is allowed. It’s the food product that should not be.
Cewebrity
A cewebrity, a person who is “Internet famous,” meaning not really famous but has several thousand followers on Twitter, a Facebook fanpage and a compulsion for ditching a year-old iPhone for the latest model and then blogging about it, is allowed, but only if used in a snarky or ironic way. New media douchebag is an acceptable synonym.
Webosphere
A completely unnecessary lengthening of Web, itself a shortening of World Wide Web, that has the added determent of sounding pretentious. It is banned.
Adorbs
Gawker-esqe shortenings such as addy, ish, and the abomination adorbs, an overly cutesy way of demeaning something, are banned in all writen works for people of majority age. Frageelay’s appeal for banning is sustained.
Breakation
A Taco Bell bastardization of “staycation,” it is banned without exception.
Webinar
Banned for all meetings and learning experiences taking place online. One can participate in learning via the Web, attend a remote meeting, watch a video or presentation online, for example, instead.
Staycation
Banned in all forms to refer to time you took off from work but didn’t leave town for more than daytrips. This includes a prohibition on “staycation destination,” which is, by definition, impossible.