This article is from The Atlantic Wire, and looks all the way back to the first usage of the word “sext” in relation to texting.

You can read the article here.

Oh.. and below is a blast from the past when I made a video about the word :-)

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 by this. Instead, I am being chased by these while braving the weather here.

Anyway.. I should be back home shortly.. but in the meantime, today’s nerd word marks the death of another word.

The Associated Press announced on the 18th of March the death of “e-mail” with a hyphen.. it’s now known as “email”.

Last year the AP did away with the hyphen in web-site website as well!  Poor hyphen, getting no respect!

2 – adj – used to describe the reason why the iPad does not have a keyboard, or run Flash, or have a USB port.. and stop running benchmarks comparing it to a PC, it’s not a PC damn-it.. it’s a “POST-PC” device which means that it is what I decide it is and it will have whatever peripherals I decide a “post-pc” device should have, until next year rolls around at which point I will add another peripheral so that you will have to upgrade, and I will repeat the process each year until it ends up with all the same peripherals and functionality that a PC has today, but by that time I will have come up with another term to describe this device. Perhaps I’ll call it a… PC?

Wow.. what an odd definition!

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!  The Oxford Dictionaries Online (sister to my favorite source, the Oxford English Dictionary) has officially recognized such words as:

Sexting

Scareware

Clickjacking

Woot

Sammich

Prolly

Who’da

Fnarr fnarr

You can see the list of new words here with some additional ones here.

What’s Fnarr fnarr you ask?  Well, the official definition is:

And what’s sniggering you ask?  Well, that comes from “snigger” which is  “a smothered or half-suppressed laugh.”

Boy, this stuff seems complicated!  Someone should do a show about words like these!

Bye bye my dear students, MWAH!  <– another of the now official words!

Now.. do you really see yourself using Prii to refer to the multiple “Prii” parked outside of the annual Mensa gathering? Seems rather pretentious, right?  Though, if you were one of those attending, then.. well.. you know what I’m saying.

As it turns out… Prii is not really the proper plural of Prius.. since Prius is a Latin third declension neuter adjective meaning “earlier”.. so the proper plural version should be Priōra…. but now it’s getting ridiculous!

If you want to be cool, you can start calling multiple Prius cars, Prii…. but can you really hear the fast talking car salesman on TV telling you to “Come on down, before all the Prii are gone!”?  I can’t… I’ll stick with Priuses, thank you.  Now, I have to go feed my walri, they’re hungry.

Colbert’s re-invention of “Truthiness” is similar to O’Reilly’s of “Pinhead”. Both unknowingly re-invented a word used previously. However, do the re-inventions differ in that O’Reilly re-created Pinhead with the original meaning but Colbert re-created with his own meaning or version of it? Was Truthiness (re) born with Colbert its father or is it just another derivative of Truth or Truthy? That’s a question for HotForWords.

This question is a hot button or issue for Colbert. Excerpting from Reference.com (http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Truthiness):

“Colbert came up with the word truthiness just moments before taping the premiere episode of The Colbert Report on October 17 2005, after deciding that the originally scripted word—”truth”—was not ridiculous enough. “We’re not talking about truth, we’re talking about something that seems like truth—the truth we want to exist,” he explained. ”

“The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition for ‘truthy’ dating back to the 1800s….’The fact that they looked it up in a book just shows that they don’t get the idea of truthiness at all,’ Stephen Colbert said Thursday. ‘You don’t look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.’”

“Though slight, the difference of Colbert’s definition and the OED’s is essential. It’s not your typical truth, but, as The New York Times wrote, ‘a summation of what [Colbert] sees as the guiding ethos of the loudest commentators on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.’”

“Colbert, who referred on his program to the AP omission as a ‘journalistic travesty,’ said that it was similar to the much-criticized weapons of mass destruction reporting leading up to the Iraq War. ‘Except,’ he said, ‘people got hurt this time.’”

“On January 31, 2006, Arianna Huffington used truthiness on the Huffington Post. Huffington later appeared as a guest on the March 1, 2006, episode of The Colbert Report. She challenged Colbert on his claim that he had invented the word truthiness. During the interview, Colbert declared, “I’m not a truthiness fanatic; I’m truthiness’s father.” Huffington corrected him, citing Wikipedia, that he had merely “popularized” the term. Regarding her source, Colbert responded: “Fuck them.”

Colbert defines Truthiness in this video  http://noolmusic.com/videos/colbert_report_-_truthiness_comedy_video.php.

Arianna Huffington is a respected author but no philologist. To answer this question, Marina is the woman for the job. I have requested Marina on The Colbert Report at Questions & Comments about Comedy Central Programming (http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml). You are encouraged to do so also.

Flightmare: n – An airplane flight that turns into a nightmare.

Interesting word MSNBC!  I certainly have experienced a flightmare or two myself. Have you?

ps. I decided to pay homage to a famous actor that passed away this past week, can you figure out who by the picture on the left?

KTHXBAI:

LOLspeak is a language that I wish I could master, though I find it, perhaps, more difficult to master than English!

As an example, here is a short Greek History Lesson written in LOLspeak:

Dis hystry, srsly. Nao lissin:

In de tiem ov Haydeez, a babeh wuz bornd. He wuz strongr denz Haydeez, so Haydeez toled hiz peepz to go pwnz hims.

Oh, BTW the babehs nam wuz Herculeez.

Soz they trid 2 pwnz him, but he only lostd his strengf. Cuz him wuz part gad doz idiotz. Soz they gaved himz to hyoomin pezints. I dun wan to sai all ov himz growin upz, soz we skip to when him 16. Soz, himz noc ovr stuffs by jus barli tuchin its! He suprmin.

Dhen, de pplz of de town, dey tyrd of Herculeez. Soz dey r lyke, “Herculeez, u must go. u 2 powrfil. Kthxbai.” an thin, lyke, Herculeez’z mortil dad waz lyke, “NOOOOOZ PLZ STAY! I giv u cheezburgr!” but Herculeez had 2 leev. Soz den, Herculeez leftid, banishd frm tha twn. Bai Herculeez. D:

The rest of this passage can be found at I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER’S SpeakLOLSpeak website.

Examples of this would be your instead of you’re, its instead of it’s, or as Will Farrell said in one of his funny impersonations: “strategery.”

You gotta except it, its so common for people to be lexadaisical, if not, than I’d say your a genius!

Can you think of other examples of lexadaisicalness?

The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen this word as the 2009 WORD OF THE YEAR!

Runners up included hashtag (I like that one), intexticated (did it already :-) ), sexting (ditto).

Unfriend really does have a lot of meaning though, though it does seem a bit Facebook-centric, right?

You’d better be nice to me or else  Imma let you finish, then Imma gonna unfriend you!