Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Neologisms From Consumerist

Jihadvertising: The marketing industry’s continuing crusade to insert more ads into every good and service we partake in. [Justin McElroy]

Oprahsuaded: To persuade someone, most likely a woman, into believing, buying, eating, reading or doing something that Oprah says is good. “You bought the latest Oprah’s Book Club book? You are so oprahsuaded.” [Focosi]

Banga-Lore: Epic stories of frustration with a “customer care” representative who has trouble understanding American English; often correctly assumed to be working in a call center on the Indian subcontinent. [J]

Blogundig: A wordplay on on the Dutch talkunding, referring to bloggers tendency to invent ridiculous words and phrases that simply have caught on due to the viral nature of the internet itself, but not due to any particular merit in verbal usage. [mrscolex]

Consumerist

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