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…UNFRIEND

Hunh!!??

Oh, I get it; it’s a verb. Dumping somebody on Facebook…unfriend.

That’s pretty stupid. But, according to the Oxford University Press, unfriend is the one word that “best reflects the mood of the year”.

I found the story at MyWay…check this out…

Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg says unfriend has “real lex appeal.”

uh…ok…so, I found this at Wiki…

* Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situation, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as ‘metalexicography’.

Woah! Semantic, syntagmatic, paradigmatic and metalexicography?

Your job description includes all of that and you “unfriend” is hip?

Go figure.

BTW, runners up included “netbook” and “sexting”.

Proof that you should always expect the unexpected, from USA Today…

An elephant that escaped from a nearby circus collided with the couple’s SUV Wednesday night when it ran across a rural highway in Enid, about 100 miles north of Oklahoma City.

Police say the 29-year-old elephant had escaped earlier that night from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds. The couple weren’t injured in the crash, but police say the elephant had a broken tusk and an injured leg.

Authorities say the elephant’s tusk tore a hole in the SUV’s sheet metal.

Now, this may not tickle you as much as it does me but, I have been to Enid many times and the mental image of driving along through the stubble fields and suddenly, out of nowhere you hit a damn elephant. Woah!

All that aside, the elephant was hurt and the people weren’t. Must have been a Hummer.

Despite a huge advertising Blitzkrieg and mountains of P.R., U2’s latest record, No Line On The Horizon, tanked.

Now, why is that?

Typically, U2 front-man has the answer. Short version; the band didn’t “pull off the pop songs”. Music is once again a singles game (due to downloads and personal music devices like…say, for instance…the U2 iPod) and, these guys didn’t come up with “the single”.

But, Bono says the band were of the mind that the album format was “was a kind of an almost extinct species” and, they approached the record “in totality”.

Here’s the real eye-opening quote though, from NME…

“And I suppose we’ve made a work that is a bit challenging for people who have grown up on a diet of pop stars.”

Hunh!!??

Woah! Back the truck up Sonny. Bono…my man…did you just call everybody who didn’t buy the record stupid? And, aren’t you the Uber Pop Star?

Whatever…well, perhaps you guys can dig deep in your souls and dumb down your next “work”.