Making up twords
I guess we should have seen it coming when e-commerce first became a word. E-business, E-marketing, E-mail, E-vites (and the inevitible bastardizations – “how do you un-evite someone??”).
Next came the i-words. iPod, iPhone, iHome, iRanOutOfBrandNamesSoIPrefixEverythingWithI.
But I guess those are still all reasonably ok. It’s this Twitter thing that finally threw us off a cliff and into an endless abyss of grotesque word-concoctions (in my humble opinion, of course). I mean, really. Do we need a “twictionary”? Well, whether we need one or not, apparently a bunch of people cared enough to make one:
http://twictionary.pbwiki.com
So what’s your least favorite tword? I’m gonna go with Puntwitocracy. What a blotch on the English language.
And while we’re on the subject of Twitter. I’m assuming everyone has seen this video by now. But it’s still good to laugh at ourselves – especially since @deliciouswords is pretty active over there in the twitverse…
