alternate buzzwords

Posted by: hmichelle on: April 8, 2010

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there are several current popular phrases and words that are getting a little long-in-the-tooth. so, i’m going to offer alternatives so people can start using these better ones (until i get sick of them, too).

“viral” there is a certain imagery that goes along with this that involves viruses and dna and flashbacks to the movie outbreak. i understand that people want to express an infiltration of a network or culture, but it just sounds so sinister and like a public health hazard. so how about we just substitute “oprah” for “viral.” it’s pretty much the same thing, right? she puts something on her reading list or her favorite things and it becomes an immediate success.

“green” this started annoying me because now it’s attached to everything, especially things that shouldn’t be considered environmentally friendly. how about we introduce some other colors into the mix. yellow feels lonely. burnt sienna feels rejected. maybe yellow green = environmentally-safe-in-the-u.s.-but-dumps-our-waste-in-china.

“love on ___.” this one’s big only in christian circles when people want to serve and care for others and is used in a very well-meaning way. my beef is that it sounds kind of gross. can you imagine a normal person saying in conversation, “he loved on me.” it sounds disgusting; it sounds like someone is doing something on top of a person. rather than a person being a subject of love, it relegates that person to an non-participating direct object. can we just say “love” and celebrate those people that are the subjects of our love?

combining names of couples. bennifer. brangelina. it used to be for the stars. now every couple uses simple arithmetic to create a new super-identity. joe schmo + jane doe = schmodoe. well, relationships can be complicated. why not introduce other types of math in equations? like:

$\begin{document} $\int_a^b f_x(demi)\,dx\, = F(bruce) - F(ashton)$ \end{document}$

or how about:

$\begin{document} $\displaystyle\sum_{N=0}^{\infty} f_n(johnmayer)$ \end{document}$ ${= jlovehewitt+jsimpson+mkelly+janiston+\cdots}$

(i just spent way too long figuring out how to code in latex to write those equations.)

Tommy

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