{"id":497,"date":"2009-11-20T15:39:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-11-20T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T11:01:11","slug":"unfriend-and-other-new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/unfriend-and-other-new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfriend and other new words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Night-of-the-Living-Dead-Zombies-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Night of the Living Dead Zombies\" title=\"Night of the Living Dead Zombies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Night-of-the-Living-Dead-Zombies-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Night-of-the-Living-Dead-Zombies.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Following my earlier post about the relative merits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=unfriend\">unfriend<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=defriend\">defriend<\/a>, I thought it may be interesting to look at the other words on the shortlist for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2009\/11\/unfriend\/ \">2009 Word of the Year<\/a>. Honestly, I\u2019ve never heard of most of them, which means I\u2019m either behind the times or they\u2019ve made these up! Here are some of my favourites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>intexticated<\/strong> \u2013 <em>distracted because texting on a cellphone while driving a vehicle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>funemployed<\/strong> &#8211; <em>taking advantage of one\u2019s newly unemployed status to have fun or pursue other interests<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>zombie bank<\/strong> \u2013 <em>a financial institution whose liabilities are greater than its assets, but which continues to operate because of government support<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I love the term \u2018zombie bank\u2019 for the imagery it invokes \u2013 imagine going in to your local branch to be confronted with zombie staff! Based on the criteria for WotY though, I think my winner has to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netbook\">netbook<\/a>. It\u2019s not flashy and it\u2019s not fashionable, but I think netbook may stand the test of time. <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your favourite word on the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my earlier post about the relative merits of unfriend or defriend, I thought it may be interesting to look at the other words on the shortlist for 2009 Word of the Year. Honestly, I\u2019ve never heard of most of them, which means I\u2019m either behind the times or they\u2019ve made these up! Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,44],"tags":[400,405,404,407,399,401,44,406],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-events","category-words","tag-defriend","tag-funemployed","tag-intexticated","tag-netbook","tag-unfriend","tag-word-of-the-year","tag-words","tag-zombie-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}