{"id":1676,"date":"2012-12-22T22:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T22:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2013-01-08T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:28:34","slug":"the-words-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/the-words-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Words of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year passing means another mountain of neologisms. Whilst many will be relegated to the linguistic scrap heap a few no doubt will latch onto our vocabularies for years to come. <em>The New York Times<\/em> has compiled a list of the clever, the witty and the just plain ridiculous, of which I thought I&#8217;d share a few.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>FRANKENSTORM<\/strong> The storm that hit the East Coast in October, a few days before Halloween.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GANGNAM STYLE<\/strong> The manner and attitude ascribed to the affluent Gangnam District of Seoul, South Korea. This term came to the attention of the world when the Korean pop star PSY released the song and video \u201cGangnam Style.\u201d His signature \u201cgalloping pony ride\u201d dance was the macarena of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOMOPHOBIA<\/strong> Fear of losing or forgetting one\u2019s mobile phone, or of being outside of the phone\u2019s signal area. From no more (phone|phobia).<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOLO<\/strong> An acronym for \u201cYou Only Live Once.\u201d Used as an interjection when someone is considering doing something risky or ill-advised. The expression took off this year after the hip-hop star Drake\u2019s song \u201cThe Motto\u201d became a hit in 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m far from being a linguistic purist but is this the best we could do? Scrap what I said earlier. Hopefully when 2013 arrives we will all suffer a collective bout of amnesia and will never utter any of these words ever, ever again. What was your word of 2012?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/the-words-and-expressions-of-2012.html?_r=0\">NYT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year passing means another mountain of neologisms. Whilst many will be relegated to the linguistic scrap heap a few no doubt will latch onto our vocabularies for years to come. The New York Times has compiled a list of the clever, the witty and the just plain ridiculous, of which I thought I&#8217;d share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,57,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-slang","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}