Words, words, words
Dec. 21st, 2009 21:13The Yuletide deadline has passed and I have a story on my AO3 dashboard! \0/ I am currently in process on a treat and have Ambitions for several more, as well as New Year's Resolutions. I am taking the laptop on our holiday voyages, so we shall see.
The New York Times has posted its list of 2009 buzzwords. Reading it, I am reminded of how wretched a year it's been around the world, not that I'd forgotten. Still, the list is amusing in a bleak humor kind of way (as well as a flashback to the beginning of the year. Who remembers the octomom, seriously?). I think the words with the most potential staying power are "netbook", "orphan books" and "conflict minerals." Though I am a fan of the phrase "drive like a Cullen." IN YOUR VOLVO.
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jonquil's post containing her comment on the decade. As I said to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eumelia, it really should be called the Naughts, because that's what it came to.
But it's the solstice! Let's be glad! The longest night of the year, and the start of the new year in some reckonings. I am about to station some presents neath the tree (I think I'm going to make "neath" my personal buzzword for 2010. Who needs prefixive intensifiers anyway?) and make merry by either writing or reading. I wish you all joy.
The New York Times has posted its list of 2009 buzzwords. Reading it, I am reminded of how wretched a year it's been around the world, not that I'd forgotten. Still, the list is amusing in a bleak humor kind of way (as well as a flashback to the beginning of the year. Who remembers the octomom, seriously?). I think the words with the most potential staying power are "netbook", "orphan books" and "conflict minerals." Though I am a fan of the phrase "drive like a Cullen." IN YOUR VOLVO.
Relatedly, I really liked
jonquil's post containing her comment on the decade. As I said to eumelia, it really should be called the Naughts, because that's what it came to. But it's the solstice! Let's be glad! The longest night of the year, and the start of the new year in some reckonings. I am about to station some presents neath the tree (I think I'm going to make "neath" my personal buzzword for 2010. Who needs prefixive intensifiers anyway?) and make merry by either writing or reading. I wish you all joy.