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May 15, 2016 · 5:14 pm

New words to live by: “Democrazy”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two nouns into a new word. Without further waiting, democrazy (demo-crazy) is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Democracy, n. a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. Or, to borrow from U.S. President Lincoln: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people….”

Crazy, n. 1. Mentally deranged, senseless, insane. 2. Unsound, impractical.

NEW WORD
Democrazy, n. 1. The illusion of democracy or the democratic process obscured by the insanity of money, the senselessness of political debates over inane subjects (e.g., hand size), and the impractical notion that whoever is elected can fix it all. 2. Every four-year mental lapse in judgment and sanity where the supreme power is invested in money and those who have. 3. Any subset thereof, in which elections can be for state, local, and non-Presidential offices. 4. The last stage of democracy before it goes totalitarian.

Campaign sold out

Campaign sold out

Example:
See your local newspaper or most any TV channel between now and November. Plenty of examples exist there.

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March 13, 2016 · 11:48 pm

New words to live by: “Emotification”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two nouns into a new word. Without further waiting, emotification is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Emote, v. to show or pretend emotion.

fiction, n. something invented, imagined, or feigned as in a made-up story .

NEW WORD
Emotification, n. 1. Showing pretend emotion over a made-up story. 2. Show emotion over a lie as if the strength of the emotion can vanquish to falsehood of the lie.

Example:
Senator John Snowball decried the fall of U.S. greatness, taking to the Sunday talk shows and speech circuit to excoriate those he saw as the cause of the fall: the lame-street media, foreigners taking Americans’ jobs, liberal, secular humanist and their worship of the devil, and modern ice cream makers, whom he was sure, were not putting enough fat in his low-fat ice cream. He vows to bring them all to heal by dragging them before his Senate select sub-committee on the collapse of fat and the fall of the I.Q. of the American public.

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February 21, 2016 · 10:22 am

New words to live by: “Internept”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two nouns into a new word. Without further waiting, Internept is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Internet, n. vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide, including governmental, commercial, and education networks. Often preceded by the word “the” and sometimes capitalized: “The Internet.”

Inept, n. 1. Lacking skill or aptitude for an assignment or task. 2. Incompetent, clumsy, awkward, out-of-place.

NEW WORD
Internept, n. 1. Those times when the Internet is so slow as to be worthless, unable to perform the tasks directed to it. 2. A person so awkward, clumsy, or out of place when attempting to perform tasks on the Internet. Such a person is a step or two ahead of the Luddite.

Example:
Jim knew what they were going to say, that he was incompetent with computers, maybe even a Luddite. But he knew how to turn on a computer and to do some basic functions. It just seemed that every time he got on the Internet, the stupid thing bogged down, and no matter what he did, he couldn’t speed it up. When he asked for help, somebody accused him of being Internept.

[Editor’s note: Thank you to Ashlie for the suggestion.]

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January 9, 2016 · 11:35 pm

New words to live by: “Holiday Horse Latitudes”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of a word and a a phrase. Without further waiting, Holiday Horse Latitudes is the new phrase for this month.

OLD WORDS
Holiday, n. A time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc. Often a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.

It's not easy to glide through the Holiday Horse Latitudes.

It’s not easy to glide through the Holiday Horse Latitudes.

Horse Latitudes, n. The horse latitudes are located at about 30 to 38 degrees north and south of the equator. According to legend, the term comes from ships sailing to the New World that would often become stalled for days or even weeks when they encountered areas of high pressure and calm winds. Many of these ships carried horses to the Americas as part of their cargo. Unable to sail and resupply due to lack of wind, crews often ran out of drinking water. To conserve scarce water, sailors on these ships would sometimes throw the horses they were transporting overboard. Thus, the phrase “horse latitudes” was born. Source: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/horse-latitudes.html

NEW WORD
Holiday Horse Latitudes, n. That time of year, usually shortly after the first of a new year, when all the major holidays have been celebrated and there is not another one for several months. Usually Memorial Day, which is the end of May, in the U.S.

All that is left are a few lesser-celebrated holidays, such as President’s Day, and overly hyped pseudo-holidays like the Super Bowl.

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December 12, 2015 · 8:21 pm

New words to live by: “Indiplation”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, indiplation is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Indigestion, n. 1. Difficulty or inability to digest food; fancy term: dyspepsia.

Contemplation, n. 1. Thoughtful observation. 2. Deep contemplation, full reflection.

NEW WORD
Indiplation, n. Nagging indigestion or churning heat burn caused by thoughtful observation or continued reflection on the foible filled state of mankind.

Homo sapiens — wise man, my ass. Homo disgustus was more like it, and that was being generous. Tom wadded up the newspaper and threw in the trash and then crunched another antacid tablet. His tenth today and it wasn’t even noon. This indiplation was eating a hole in his stomach and his wallet.

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October 18, 2015 · 7:36 pm

New words to live by: “surlen”

It is time, once again, for a new word to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, surlen is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
surly, adj. 1. Bad-tempered, churlishly rude. 2. Unfriendly; irritable.

sullen, adv., adj. 1. Ill-humored or silently ill-humored. 2. Showing irritation. 3. Sluggish, like a stream.

NEW WORD
surlen, adj. 1. Dark look of irritability. 2. Sluggish and ill-tempered. Can be rude.

Displayed most often by children between the ages of 10 and 20, who master it when told by parents or adults to do their homework, pick up their rooms, finish their chores. If looks could kill, grave diggers would be in short supply.

Sometimes referred to as the “passive-aggressive up yours.”

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September 13, 2015 · 4:26 pm

New words to live by: “Awkwapella”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and time, once again, for a new word to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, awkwapella is the new word for this month.

Old Words
awkward, adj. 1. Missing social graces or manners. 2. Caused by a lack of social grace. [Editor’s note: There are other definitions for awkward, but these are the two best applicable to the new word.]

a cappella, adv., adj.. without instrument accompaniment.

New Word
awkwapella, adj. an unplanned and often awkward activity that suddenly casts full and unwanted attention on you.

For example, doing something embarrassing in front of others, especially your peers, co-workers, or friends that gets you attention from everybody in the immediate area. Maybe you have a noticeable laugh, which you try to hide by only laughing when everybody laughs, but then once you keep laughing after everybody else has stopped. Or maybe you start laughing at something, believing others will join you, but they never do.

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August 9, 2015 · 11:10 am

New words to live by: “citybilly” and “hill slicker”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and time, once again, for a new word to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, citybilly and hill slicker are the new words / phrases for this month.

Old Words
Hillbilly, n. a person from a remote or backwoods area, usually meaning somebody from the Appalachian Mountains in the southern U.S.

City slicker, n. a term, often meant disparagingly, for a natty dressed, worldly focused city dweller.

New Words
Citybilly, n. second, even third generation hillbilly who has moved to the city but retains many if not most of their hillbilly ways. Also, those who act like hillbillies in the city even if they have been city dwellers for some time/generations.

Hill slicker, n. city person who has moved to the country, but still retains many of his or her city ways and expects the same big city amenities in the country setting. Think of the wife, Lisa Douglas, in TV sitcom Green Acres.

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June 21, 2015 · 5:33 pm

New words to live by: “Wallowacity”

It is the first or second (or in this case, third) weekend of the month and time, once again, for a new word to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, Wallowacity is the new word / phrase for this month:

Wallow, n. The ability to self-indulge or revel.

-acity, noun suffix meaning “strong characteristic of” or “quality of.” or It is Latin suffix and appears Latin words such as tenacity.
tenacity.

New word Wallowacity, n. The state or degree to which you can master wallowing.

Example: There are few things that a man can do that woman can’t do equally as well and sometimes better. There is one thing, though, that men are more naturally born to and that is wallowing. From a young age, boys begin mastering the art of wallowing, but it rarely comes into full bloom or full wallowacity until around 55 years of age.

Boys may read about great men such as George Washington or Napoleon, sports greats such as Babe Ruth, great composers such as Mozart or dynamic world leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., but the men most of them grow up secretly admiring and then emulating is the guy in their circle of friends who has achieved his full wallow potential, his full wallowacity.

Maybe this entry was a week late due to a bit of wallowacity.

Just the gift to give dad for Father’s Day.

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May 10, 2015 · 9:13 pm

New Words to live by: “Conscience sedation”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and time, once again, for a new word to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two words. Without further waiting, conscience sedation is the new word / phrase for this month:

Conscience, n.the self-guided sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action, such as following one’s conscience.

2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.

Sedation, n. 1. calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, often by administering a drug, also known as a sedative.

2. the state so induced.

How about Conscience sedation?

Conscience sedation, n. 1. the mental condition or state by which you sedate your conscience in order to function in a situation. At best, you are amoral, but more likely a sociopath. This state can be achieved by drugs or by accepting whole heartedly a misguided ideology (Faux News, NRA, Tea Party), or sometimes by running for political office.

2. the state so induced

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