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     CommentAuthororwellseyes
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

    (5380.1)
   Joe Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and writer of "Changeling" wants you to resurrect a word.
   
   

   So here's the deal. I'm calling on everybody in sight to help me
   bring back a word. It's a conspiracy, see, and you're all part of it
   if you choose to be.
   
   I want to bring back the word "anon." As in, "I'll call you anon," or
   "See you anon."
   
   It isn't as specific as "see you tomorrow," when you may not, or "I'll
   call you later" which is even more ill defined and inelegant..."anon"
   means simply again..."I'll see you again" or "I'll call you in the
   fullness of time."

   
   
   A curious little experiment. What would you bring back? Or create from whole cloth?
2. •  
     CommentAuthorFauxhammer
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009 edited

    (5380.2)
   I'm with bringing back "anon". It's classy.
   
   Me, I want to hear more people saying "Saaaaaay, what's the big idea?!"
3. •  
     CommentAuthorBlanche
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

    (5380.3)
   If I had my way, people the world over would say "Jaws" instead of "Cheers".
   
   
   Long story short, my friends put on bad fake english accents, and made it sound as if they were saying "Chyaahs" instead of "cheers".
   
   I thought they said "Jaws" and got excited; I was wrong.
   
   I'm determined not to be. I would like to see "anon" make a comeback, though.
4. • CommentAuthorSteadyUP
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

    (5380.4)
   I'm working on "bully", myself.
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     CommentAuthorRachæl Tyrell
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

    (5380.5)
   I think the English language needs a non-gender specific singular pronoun. "S/he" is clumsy, and the overusage of "they" to fill this niche really bothers me.
6. • CommentAuthormybrainhurts
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009 edited

    (5380.6)

   I think the English language needs a non-gender specific singular pronoun

   
   
   I thought we already had 'motherfucker'.
   
   I went and saw and Joe at the bar. He ordered a pint and then he spilled it all over me.
   
   becomes
   
   I went and saw and Joe at the bar. Motherfucker ordered a pint and then motherfucker spilled it all over me.
7. • CommentAuthorOxbrow
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

    (5380.7)
   Writer of "Dreamers, Shapers, Singers, and Makers" speech likes unduly florid language, film at eleven...
8. •  
     CommentAuthororwellseyes
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

    (5380.8)
   @oxbrow:
   
   Troll Hates Clever Idea, Uses Onion Style Joke to Sound Clever, Fails.
9. • CommentAuthorENGINE
   • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

    (5380.9)
   @SteadyUP
   
   I, too, am working on "bully". BULLY FOR YOU!
10. • CommentAuthorOxbrow
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.10)
    Never mind, then, I shan't trouble you further.
11. •  
      CommentAuthorBrianMowrey
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.11)
    you mean anon
12. •  
      CommentAuthorWordWill
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.12)
    http://www.savethewords.org/
    
    (You probably want to turn your sound off for that.)
13. •  
      CommentAuthorCat Vincent
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.13)
    Waiting for Anonymous to be all over this...
14. •  
      CommentAuthorpico
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.14)
    "Remember me." As in, "Remember me to one who lives there...." Despite the sad-bastard-Simon-and-Garfunkel-ness of the phrase, it's classy and distinct.
15. • CommentAuthorOddcult
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.15)
    The chans have been doing this for a while now anyway. Looks like he's cleverely picked something that'll happen easily, which he can take credit for.
    
    Smells a bit of a weird kind of backwards astroturf. Or whatever it is that you'd call 'takling the credit for something already happening'.
16. • CommentAuthorepalicki
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.16)
    I think that modern sexual connotations have more or less ruined it, but I try to work "comely" into conversation whenever possible. As in: "Oh, my, she's a comely lass, isn't she?"
    
    ...and, slightly off-topic, but I could really do WITHOUT the words "got," and "utilize," and I really wish people used "random" and "literally" correctly.
17. •  
      CommentAuthorPaul Sizer
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.17)
    How about we get Americans to properly use the words we have before we start dropping in new ones?
    My vote for "Can we PLEASE kill this now?" in terms of American phrases:
    
    "These ones" and "Those ones" (EXAMPLE: "I like these ones better than those ones, I think."
    
    I like THESE. I like THOSE.
    
    Fucking PERIOD.
    Thanks.
18. •  
      CommentAuthorrickiep00h
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.18)
    Oh man, Sizer, we should start a crotchety bastard grammar club. You could be president. It'll look good on a resume.
19. •  
      CommentAuthorBrendan McGinley
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.19)
    Personally, I like "alack"
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      CommentAuthorKitsuneCaligari
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2009

     (5380.20)
    I plan on bringing back Old English for feminist erotic novels and YouTube comments. Also Twitter....