What’s That You Say?

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Here are the Top 10 newly coined words

1.Luxcession: v. - As the economy continues to hit consumers’

wallets affecting their purchasing choices, many mass-class

luxury items are also taking a hit.

2.Dotcomrade: n. - A friend or acquaintance that you met online

but have never met in person.

3.Greenwashing: n. - The practice of bogus environmental marketing.

4.Info Snacking: v. - Wasting time at work by surfing the Web.

5.Blacking Out: v. - To turn off any device that people can reach you with

(cell phone, two-way, computer, home phone, morse code, etc.)

in order to avoid someone.

6.Compunicate: v. - To chat with someone when you are in the same room,

each on separate computers, and you talk via Instant Messenger

instead of speaking to them out loud, in person.

7.Defriend: v. - To remove somebody from your established list of contacts,

considered the ultimate snub on social network.

8.Generica: n. - Features of the American landscape that are exactly

the same no matter where you go such as strip malls and fast food places.

9.Mouse Potato: n. - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.

10.Googleganger: n. - Another individual with the same name as you

whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google yourself.

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