What the?
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
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
Mentalize - I think I meant visualize or something
Witnesses: Wes Brown, Tony Jackson
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.
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.
Happify - The act of making someone/thing satisfiably happy
Witnesses: Jennifer Dollarhide, Wes Brown
Promolize (pr

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-l

z

) - To move from a non-promotional state to a promotional state with reference to a product or feature.
Witness: Jennifer Dollarhide
Logify (l

j


-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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