Category: "Nerd Words"

nerd-word Every day we encounter nerdy words trying to find their way into the common vernacular.

Here, I will seek them out and expose them for the phonies that they are!

Some will succeed and become common words, others will (hopefully) die a painful death!

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Thanks to Alexandra Gorbokon, whom I met in the Twitterverse (OH NO!!! It’s one of those words!!) and her idea for the title of this section!

Weiner and the word Sexting

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With all this talk this past week about Weiner and Sexting (aren’t they synonymous with each other?), I just read an article that looks into the origin of the word. [...]

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Nerd Word of the Day: email

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E-mail Sorry, I’m 4 days late on this!  I’ve been out of Los Angeles, for the past couple days trying to avoid this, which was supposed to be brought on [...]

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Nerd Word of the Day: Post-PC

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Post-PC: 1 – adj – used to describe a device that is dedicated to a specific application in contrast to a general-purpose computer 2 – adj – used to describe [...]

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Sexting, Sammich and Fnarr fnarr are now official words!

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I often make fun of these words, and even make videos about them (8.9 million views and counting, btw!), and now a whole slew of these words are now official! [...]

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Toyota announces that the Plural of Prius is Prii

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OK.. after much debate and the public’s votes… Toyota announces that the plural of Prius is now officially (drum-roll please… oh.. I already put the answer in the title.. arggh!)…. [...]

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Truthiness

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Let’s get Marina equal time on The Colbert Report. Word Request for “Truthiness” Colbert’s re-invention of “Truthiness” is similar to O’Reilly’s of “Pinhead”. Both unknowingly re-invented a word used previously. [...]

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Nerd Word of the Day: Flightmare

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I was reading an article on MSNBC’s website today  - Passenger recounts 16-hour flightmare.  A 5 1/2 hour flight turned into a 15 hour nightmare? …. oh….. sorry….. I mean [...]

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Nerd Werd of the Day: KTHXBAI

KTHXBAI: LOLspeak version of “OK, thanks! Bye”. LOLspeak is a language that I wish I could master, though I find it, perhaps, more difficult to master than English! As an [...]

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Nerd Word of the Day: Lexadaisical

Lexadaisical: adj – Being lackadaisical with your lexicon. Examples of this would be your instead of you’re, its instead of it’s, or as Will Farrell said in one of his [...]

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Nerd Word of the Day.. no YEAR: Unfriend

Unfriend: verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen this word as the 2009 WORD [...]

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Nerd Words of the Day: Imma Let You Finish

“Imma let you finish”: Phrase used to interrupt someone with no intent of letting them finish what they were going to say. This phrase entered the lexicon recently with the [...]

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Nerd Word of the Day: Idempotent

Idempotent: adj. f. L.  idem same +  potent-em powerful:  Of a quantity or element a: having the property that a × a = a, where × represents multiplication or some [...]

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Nerd Words of the Day: Nom de Strip

Nom de Strip: one’s stripper name. Taken from the expression “nom de plume” for pen-name. I was flicking through the channels and came across the Demi Moore movie “Striptease” and [...]

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Nerd Word of the Day: Anatidaephobia

Anatidaephobia: (n) The fear that you are being watched by a duck. From the Greek word “anatidae”, meaning ducks, geese or swans and “phobos” meaning fear. What a strange phobia, [...]

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