Unecessary ...
... except as a bowdlerism of clusterfuck
Omnishambles beats off mummy-porn, becomes English word of 2012
The UK's new word of 2012 is "omnishambles", according to the Oxford English Dictionary's compilers. Selected from a list of several new words added to the gold-standard dictionary this year, omnishambles was chosen by lexicographers at Oxford University Press because it best reflects the mood of the past 12 months. It was …
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Tuesday 13th November 2012 16:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: GIF ?
Not really, the entire point is the restrictions, to an extent. Some people glory in how jarring and ghetto it is, some make it loop in really clever ways. Some actually do really subtle stuff with them, too. Have a look at:
http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
It's a thing. Often the people who do it are quite capable of editing in full HD and outputting to h.264 if they want to, but that's not the point :)
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Thursday 15th November 2012 12:13 GMT Graham Cobb
Re: 'the verb "medal" (from the Olympics)'
It seems like a perfectly reasonable usage to me. English has a long and glorious history of verbing nouns ("to google" being the most obvious recent example). Of course, "to medal" could have been adopted to mean "to hit the gold medallist over the head with your silver medal in frustration" but "to win a medal" is probably more useful.
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Tuesday 13th November 2012 17:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: WRONG
Totally agree - wrong definition.
Being from birmingham (and this is no doubt true of other areas of the UK, and indeed all of the US) the word mummy refers exclusively to a dead body wrapped in bandages...so an example of mummy-porn would be "Neff-a-titty monthly", "suck my ram-eses" or even "tit-and-cum-on weekly". Mommy-porn on the other hand...different thing all together (not literally 'on the other hand'..before you get any ideas)
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Tuesday 13th November 2012 17:44 GMT Alex C
The Bugle Podcast has come up with some pretty special ones this year
Fuckeulogy is my favourite by far-
Definition from the Urban Dictionary:
A derogatory oration or writing, especially in dishonor of one deceased.
"This is not so much a tribute episode to bin Laden as a special fuckeulogy to the big man."
- John Oliver, The Bugle, Episode 152.
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 10:14 GMT mad_dr
Re: "To Medal" - only slightly less offensive than "Winningest"...
I always assumed that winningest was used in a tongue-in-cheek fashion rather than seriously and therefore always makes me chuckle when I hear it. To "medal" on the other hand is extremely irritating. During the summer I heard more than one pundit on the BBC use the word podium as a verb. "I'm fully expecting her to podium this time round". Now perhaps that's a completely justifiable way of using the word podium but - to me - it just sounds plain wrong.
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 11:42 GMT kdh0009
Re: "To Medal" - only slightly less offensive than "Winningest"...
Sadly not.
I think it raised its head during the Olympics when an American commentator used it to describe Michael Phelps having won more gold medals than any other Olympian. At the time it seemed to be laughed off by Sue Barker et al as poor grammar on the part of the commentator, rather than an accepted word.
As a watcher of various American sports however, I can attest to the fact that its usage is wide-ranging and frequent to describe 'those who have won more <games> <championship> <etc> than others'.
(occasionally you can detect a slight cringe in the voices of the better educated commentators who realise that it isn't good English, but they use it as it is well understood in the US)
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 12:07 GMT Big_Boomer
And so the bastardisation of the English language continues
I am all for new words and the natural evolution of language but I believe that any addition to the OED should have been in regular use for at least 5 years before inclusion. Omnishambles is just the "word of the year". Nobody will remember it at this time next year. Clusterfuck has been around since the 70s and ranks up there with the 1940's military favourite SNAFU. Words like omnishambles are spawned by management types desperate to sound intelligent when in fact they end up sounding just as stupid as your local yoof wiv 'iz gangspeek init. They think that adding -ise to anything makes it a verb, so to follow their example I would like to propose the word "Mangleise" - to change or invent a word such as to make yourself seem trendy and with it.
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Thursday 15th November 2012 10:55 GMT Roby
Why I think GIF hasn't died
I think the recent resurgence in GIF popularity is due to the increased connection speeds allowing animated GIFs of a few megabytes to load in a couple of seconds. It suddenly is possible to post them on image boards and blogs without people having to invest time waiting for it to load. If you don't have to wait then suddenly the stuff you are willing to check out increases.
I can recall being on a very slow connection a few years ago, where every click was carefully thought out because after a 2 min wait for a website to load, it better be worth seeing. Now I click all over the place, pages load instantly, and if I'm not interested I close it.
The lack of a viable alternative also helps keep the outdated GIF going. Even if an alternative IS made (MPNG/APNG?) browser support would lead the older format to persist for a long time (also known as the IE effect).
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