New Words

It is astounding the amount of new words that enter the English language each and every day. Many people may wonder where most of these new words come from? More often than not they just seem to spring up from nowhere with no discernible point of origin. In fact you could go as far as saying that Social networking and the people who use these sites create them as groups. Making up a word and then giving it meaning, much like establishing a brand. The two most recent words I have heard in circulation(and I am sure upon writing this they are already on the way out) are Barkered and Ammy.

Barkered seems to be used as an adjective although dependant on the noun or situation you associate it with  it can either be a positive or negative connotation eg. either that was really good or it totally sucked. The emphasis seems to be on the tone you use in your voice as to which one it is.

Ammy is more simple to use as it is an abbreviation of sorts of the word Amateur. You could use this to describe someone or something as to not being up to par or not as good as it could be or that in fact it was total rubbish. It seems this word is very popular for Females to use, especially to describe their partner.

So if you want to be “so down with 2010“, those are two words with similar meanings you could slip into a conversation today, although I would assume your work colleagues may just stare at you blankly when you drop these clangers. On the upside it will be a welcome relief from hearing the word “like” used anywhere from 5 to 5 million times in a single conversation you have with any of today’s teenagers.

Today’s challenge is make a word up today and see if it catches on.

I think this is mine I claim it as so from about at least a year ago when I gave it life,

Rantservation: To rant on about something but in a nice conversational way people will enjoy listening to or reading about.