Podcast: Word of the Year
The New Oxford American Dictionary has selected "podcast" as its word of the year!
Is there any prize that the iPod doesn't win hands down? It's even adding new award winning words to the language. Microsoft's MP3 player must be thoroughly squicked 1 at this development. Podcasts are such a lifehack2 for getting information on the go that iPod addicts must continually wonder how they got along without them for so long.
1) squick: to cause “immediate and thorough revulsion,” as in: “Was anyone else squicked by our waiter's piercings.”
2) lifehack: a “more efficient or effective way of completing an everyday task.” The editors offer the following as a possible usage: “I found a great lifehack for getting a cheap motel room.”
Is there any prize that the iPod doesn't win hands down? It's even adding new award winning words to the language. Microsoft's MP3 player must be thoroughly squicked 1 at this development. Podcasts are such a lifehack2 for getting information on the go that iPod addicts must continually wonder how they got along without them for so long.
1) squick: to cause “immediate and thorough revulsion,” as in: “Was anyone else squicked by our waiter's piercings.”
2) lifehack: a “more efficient or effective way of completing an everyday task.” The editors offer the following as a possible usage: “I found a great lifehack for getting a cheap motel room.”
posted by Smashed at 12/08/2005 03:25:00 PM
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