Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Meep! OMG! LOL! Scrabblenoggers!!! Aarrrggh, matey!

Scrabblenogging - verb, the putting together letters into a new word thinking it exists in a dictionary; the believing that a new word ought to belong into a dictionary. 

Scrabblenogger - noun, a person who tries to force or populate a new word into the general population.

You know the game, Scrabble? Putting together letters into a word and you score points along the way? And remember once in a while a player would put down a word believing it's actually a word unless challenged and the said "word" would be looked up in the dictionary? The challenged player would then be proved wrong. But sometimes a player would be insistent even adamant that the new word thinking it either makes sense and how it ought to be a dictionary or he was sure he'd seen that word somewhere and tries to force players to accept that new word.

That makes him an extreme "scrabblenogger."

Are you a scrabblenogger extremist? Or just a plain ol' scrabblenogger?

Although I may have done some scrabblenogging when I thought a word actually existed in a dictionary but it turned out not to be so. I think many of us have done that if you have ever played the game Scrabble.

Every year new words are added into the Oxford dictionary where words once obscure are now used by millions of people today. OMG! For example, LOL! and meep, are words or acronymns that were very recently added into the Oxford dictionary. Are you following me, yet?

Using Google search engine for "OMG!" turns up 173,000,000 results. "LOL!" comes up with 916,000,000 hits while "meep" gets 1,500,000 results. And, yeah, even high school kids can get into trouble in school for saying "meep" (what is the definition of "meep" anyways?).

Imagine that. 

Now, as a matter of record today, you, the readers, are now my witnesses seeing that I am the inventer of two new words, "scrabblenogging" and "scrabblenogger." Those two words do not exist in any Google search results until today. And I made sure they get added to my blogger.com dictionary database. So there! Feel free to use them as much as possible.

Now, I'm a scrabblenogger. OMG! LOL!

Meep!

So, with all the a-wordism (31,000 results) and "deafhood" (44,900 results) efforts on trying to get them forcefully recognized or else you'll be dangerously labeled with the a-wordist if they don't get tthose words into the dictionary!! I'd say good luck with that. I truly mean mean that. Work hard and get 'er done!

Did you get that message, Beth Scoggins?




I'd just say those words are meeps.

I wonder if they'll stop meeping with themselves? Are you a meeper or a scrabblenogger?

And, so with honor and gratitude I leave you with this video of this Sesame Street character, Beaker, (known for his meeping meeps) singing the song "Ode to Joy" with his meeps. His meeps started many, many moons ago and it took so long until the word "meep" finally landed in the Oxford dictionary a few weeks ago. Don't worry about the song, it's just a bunch of meeps. Just put your own words into his mouth and imagine whatever he's saying since reading his lips would be impossible.

Enjoy your evening, folks!

4 comments:

mervynjames224 said...

Why use all these words when bullshit would have covered most of them... It's the mongrel-isation of language really.. Oops is that another word !!! we used to have new words for NEW things, not new words for already existing things. We had no welsh words for refrigerator, computer, television etc, so had to invent them, you should try reading the British BSL ROM or book, and discover how hearing here saw deaf language by trying to emulate English usage of one word to mean different things... Like read, close or similar... in deaf context it made no sense... and they based it on phonetics.

Candy said...

meep!

I love Scrabble!!! love love love it!

Mike said...

Because saying bs wouldn't make sense nor would it be a fun word to use.

We all invent new words out of necessity and even out of fun. LOL!

Rob said...

Oh, my Lord, I hope the word "remmy" does not ever goes into any official English dictionary! It is a texting word for "remember" and it's the most ugly word when written or spoken. I get unnerved everytime that word is uttered on FB by someone else and I wanted to "dislike" that word! Hah.