Rapture (noun)
Endgame (noun)

Right, beacuse no Americans knew what those word meant before this year.

*faceplam*

Tebow (verb)
Origin: Denver Broncos Quarterback Tim Tebow's high propensity for praying midgame.
1. According to tebowing.com, a website that celebrates the practice, to "Tebow" is "to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different." 2. An Internet craze that explains all of those awkward-looking photos you see people taking everywhere.

It is called "Tebowing" dammit.

Tebowing > Yahoo News > Tebow

"bunga bunga?"


Huh.

wallywam1: Endgame, oops, rapture...where have these obscure words been hiding?

Above a fourth-grade vocabulary US News and World Report edits to

I chuckled from Human Microphone on. List still seems stupid, though. I assume the writer is from somewhere in the northeast since 'cone of uncertainty' is on there (though I knew it a long time before leaving Ohio to come near hurricane territory, so....)

Whar Teagihadist?? Wahr????

/And where is Whar?
//Damned elitists making top ten lists for morans!!!

ATM?

The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: "bunga bunga?"


Huh.

This: Link (new window)

"Cone of Uncertainty" and "Human Microphone" are phrases, not words.

rhiannon: fusillade762: Rapture (noun)
Endgame (noun)

Right, beacuse no Americans knew what those word meant before this year.

*faceplam*

I'm not a fan of this article, but you should read the last sentence of the first paragraph.

What, you mean I'm supposed to actually READ the article before commenting? Pfft.

what?

MenardG: The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: "bunga bunga?"


Huh.

This: Link (new window)

nope more like thisLink

Okay, seriously? No Haboob? They put rapture which everyone's known since forever and missed the arabic, dirty sounding word that had rednecks hot and bothered and confused?

That article sucked. But I hadn't heard about Perry's "oops" incident so I clicked through and was amused by that loser's failure.

I prefer this version of Rapture:



/Fab Five Freddie seal of approval.

What Rapture looked like in 1981 from Blondie (new window)

While I'm on the subject of Rapture, to all 3 people that remember that Joe Pesci sampled the song on his Wise Guy (new window) song, or as everyone else knows it as It's The biatches That'll Get'chas

rhiannon: fusillade762: Rapture (noun)
Endgame (noun)

Right, beacuse no Americans knew what those word meant before this year.

*faceplam*

I'm not a fan of this article, but you should read the last sentence of the first paragraph.

It still makes no sense. The meanings haven't changed and they were part of the nationwide vocabulary prior to this year. Now, if you want to relabel this list as this years "buzzwords" then it'll make more sense. But saying that they were added to the nation's vocabulary or were words that we "learned" of them is asinine.

Having a slightly uncommon word used in the appropriate manner when discussing an event does not change the definition of that word.

What about "right?", since most people seem to be ending their sentences with "I know, right?"

List fails because it does not include the most awesome word conceived in the last decade. Upon the death of Osama Bin Laden, John Oliver (of the Daily Show, but on his podcast The Bugle) coined the term "farkeulogy" for his summation of the event. Truly a landmark in the English language.

Phleh.

The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: "bunga bunga?"


Huh.

Oops, I accidentally clicked that dumbass link.

Came for the Blondie reference. Left with Joe Pesci's Wiseguy song playing in the background. I need a cigarette.

/Satisfied

The Gordie Howe Hat Trick
"bunga bunga?"
Huh?

You're not familiar with the term?

Here it is again then

Corexit

parkerlewis: What about "right?", since most people seem to be ending their sentences with "I know, right?"

Or starting them with "Look,..."

10 words Americans added to their vocabulary this past year

Americans have been hiding in caves this past year?

Crap.

"...previous to this past year?"

182: whordashian not on the list?

Thank you Sir.

wallywam1: A well-reasoned, rational argument...it does exist!

To be fair, though, on Fark doing so is tantamount to trolling.

For all of the rampant corruption in the Berlusconi government, we are indebted to him for the phrase "Bunga Bunga". It's a shame for him his friend Moammar won't be attending the next one.

ukexpat: parkerlewis: What about "right?", since most people seem to be ending their sentences with "I know, right?"

Or starting them with "Look,..."

The equivalent to the American "Right?" is the British "Innit." Meaning "Isn't it". Therefore the use of the word "Right", in this context, equates to American Chav slang. Goggle the word "Chav" for reference if curious.

I think the article was pointing out that these terms have been abused past all rational use, this year. For instance I heard the term "Endgame" reference no less than six different plans for the Eurpean debt crisis. WTF, you use your endgame for the last (I don't know) two minutes of the game, and while you have to be adaptable you don't go, running game for 1 play, passing game for 1 play, defensive for 1 play, etc, you stick with your running game for the last two minutes, that's your endgame, it's the strategy you use at the end of the game. It's not just a plan, but they're (the media in this instance) misusing endgame to mean plan, because they don't want to say "bailout".

Random, amazing, epic, and awkward? Oh, that's right - those words totally lost their meanings. In fact, they can sometimes be used interchangably.

List fails without OWS

I'm seeing three yahoo stories in a row on the front page... Can we stop greenlighting these links please?

/unless you're linking us to epic trolls
//backward, cousin loving trolls...

Shouldn't words not be phrases?

Diogenes The Cynic: Shouldn't words not be phrases?

Shouldn't articles not be lame

"Occupy"