What the?
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
  Expediation - 1. Some new form of expedite; 2. What happens to an unpatched MS Windows XP system that is put on the net without firewall protection, also "XPdiation"


Witness: Bryan Jensen 
Friday, March 05, 2004
  Genericize - To make generic.

Aparently this is not a word. I use it often, and I thought I had heard others use it. Only today I was confronted about my use of the word, and no one seemed to agree that it was a word. Upon a visit to dictionary.com, sure enough, it's not a word... but genericity is, go figure.



Witnesses: Robert Tripp, Paul Hoffman, Kenna Braddock, Vicki Langford
 
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
  Mentalize - I think I meant visualize or something


Witnesses: Wes Brown, Tony Jackson
 
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
  Tremendity - Somewhat unclear, it was said in haste and stutter... perhaps an amalgam of tremendous enormity? More likely intended to be tremendousness.


Clipped and paraphrased context:

"...use our tremendous resources..."

"Well, it's not very tremendous. It needs more tremendity."

laughter ensues.



Witnesses: Wes Brown, Scott Davis, Paul Hoffman, a few others

 
  Digressive - Yes, it's a word.

Reminutia - No, it's not a word, but a combination of two... reminiscent and minutia. You do the math.


Witnesses: Everyone who reads this.

 
Friday, September 26, 2003
  Craplessness - No further definition needed.

Witnesses: Robert Tripp, Paul Hoffman




Inspired by a conversation about a comment to a blog which was inspired by a previous conversation.

 
Thursday, August 28, 2003
  Happify - The act of making someone/thing satisfiably happy


Witnesses: Jennifer Dollarhide, Wes Brown
 
Saturday, August 16, 2003
  Promolize (pr-m-lz) - To move from a non-promotional state to a promotional state with reference to a product or feature.

Witness: Jennifer Dollarhide

 
Thursday, August 14, 2003
  Logify (lj-f) - To rationalize

Witness: Shawn Laubach 
Shawn's Non-Existent Word(s) of the Day

These are words I have been heard saying that don't actually exist. Yet.

New words are popping up all the time and being "officially" added to dictionaries. For example, dot-com, slamming, megaplex, e-tailing, are all recent dictionary additions and therefore part of the English language for good. Maybe if I keep this up, some of my words will be remembered for all time. Or not...

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