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Have you used the F-bomb while sexting yet?
How about hitting up Paul Ryans FB, doing the Henny Penny, or otherwise having an aha moment about something that will become the latest trend?
What is the latest trend?
How does something become a trend, enough to actually make it into the Dictionary and therefore valid enough to be used?
The word bootylicious, for instance. Official and in the dictionary - but no one probably remembers the dog who first first coined it. Or would even snoop around to find out.
Trends of course come and go - but some stay and become a part of our thought, language and lifestyle.
Take our trending involved in the videogame Gran Turismo - Jenkins (a kitty cat), sponging (to borrow a car and dupe it before returning) or Bob . . . I heard the word Bob for the first time way back when I used to haunt GTVault - but now it seems to be a household word (in GT households anyway) when applied to AI bots that drive virtual cars. And does anybody actually know who first said Bob in that context? The oldest post about Bob that I can remember is still the one I read at GTVault. In the dictionary yet? Not yet. Guess well have to trend that more.
In the dictionary - the one on this side of the Atlantic anyway - are some brand-new words and phrases, as of today official - systemic risk, sexting, mash-up, gastropub, game changer, bucket list, aha moment, cloud computing . . . Im gassed; go look them up yourself.
Of course there is always that trend we dont know about . . . yet . . . but heading towards us at the speed of thought. Can we know it ahead of its time? Being the first to know is always trendy.
So . . . latest trend? Anybody know?
Cmon. Make our hats fall off.
How about hitting up Paul Ryans FB, doing the Henny Penny, or otherwise having an aha moment about something that will become the latest trend?
What is the latest trend?
How does something become a trend, enough to actually make it into the Dictionary and therefore valid enough to be used?
The word bootylicious, for instance. Official and in the dictionary - but no one probably remembers the dog who first first coined it. Or would even snoop around to find out.
Trends of course come and go - but some stay and become a part of our thought, language and lifestyle.
Take our trending involved in the videogame Gran Turismo - Jenkins (a kitty cat), sponging (to borrow a car and dupe it before returning) or Bob . . . I heard the word Bob for the first time way back when I used to haunt GTVault - but now it seems to be a household word (in GT households anyway) when applied to AI bots that drive virtual cars. And does anybody actually know who first said Bob in that context? The oldest post about Bob that I can remember is still the one I read at GTVault. In the dictionary yet? Not yet. Guess well have to trend that more.
In the dictionary - the one on this side of the Atlantic anyway - are some brand-new words and phrases, as of today official - systemic risk, sexting, mash-up, gastropub, game changer, bucket list, aha moment, cloud computing . . . Im gassed; go look them up yourself.
Of course there is always that trend we dont know about . . . yet . . . but heading towards us at the speed of thought. Can we know it ahead of its time? Being the first to know is always trendy.
So . . . latest trend? Anybody know?
Cmon. Make our hats fall off.