Cogent and pithy. Many of them come from our ever-neologistic hacker crowd, who loves nounizing verbs and verbizing nouns, to fit the situation. Here they are:
- amazonned–instead of ‘lost a significant chunk of your business to a dot-com’
- animus
- andante–instead of ‘at a walking pace’
- argot–instead of ‘his special vocabulary’
- avatar
- cancelmoose–instead of ‘wage war against spamm’
- canted–instead of ‘slanted’
- cryppie–instead of ‘a hacker who penetrates cryptographic software’
- debbie–instead of ‘someone newer than a newbie’
- edress–instead of ‘electronic addresses, such as your e-mail address or your IM address’
- gonk–instead of ’embellish the truth beyond reasonable recognition’
- mien–instead of ‘demeanor’
- modicum–instead of ‘slightest bit’
- moxy–instead of ‘courage’
- nadir–instead of ‘the lowest point’
- playground–instead of ‘techie workspace’
- proxy–instead of ‘replacement’
- salmon day–instead of ‘spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end’
- schadenfreude–instead of ‘malicious satisfaction from the misfortunes of others’
- Sitzfleisch–instead of ‘ability to sit patiently for hours doing one thing when you could be doing a million others things’
- Sorrel–instead of ‘reddish brown color’
- sprachgefhl–instead of ‘an intuitive understanding of language’
- supinate–instead of ‘rotate hand or foot so palm or sole is upward’
- tarradiddle–instead of ‘a petty falsehood’
- tech neck–instead of ‘sore neck from sitting in front of a computer all day’
- termagant–instead of ‘a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman’
- triskaidekaphobia–instead of ‘morbid fear of number 13’
- vestigial–instead of ‘not fully developed’
- vulcan nerve pinch–instead of ‘keyboard commands that tax the hand’s ability to reach all appropriate keys’
- xerophyte–instead of ‘a plant that will thrive in desert conditions’
- Zeitgeist–instead of ‘spirit of the time’
- zenith–instead of ‘the point directly above the observer’
You want to have Excel count the letters in a word for you? All you need is a LEN formula:
=LEN (cell with word in it)
I love Excel.
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