Wednesday, January 13, 2010
My Most Brilliatelligent Blog Post Ever
Today I heard someone say the word "ginormous."
I wonder where this word came from. I mean, I assume it's a combination of gigantic and enormous, but I'm not sure. Even if this is correct, however, it only raises more questions. The paramount among them being: what's wrong with the two original words?
I like describing things as gigantic or enormous. I think that the word humongous should have made a comeback. But instead, people chose to mangle two perfectly descriptive words to make a third word that sounds like a mistake.
It sounds like a mistake because it is a mistake.
There is only one situation in which I would allow myself to use the word "ginormous." I would need to be confronted with a giant chicken. It would have to be a really big chicken. I'm not talking house-height here either. This chicken would have to be way taller than a house. If, and only if I saw a chicken that was way taller than a house, you might here me say, "holy crap, that chicken is ginormous."
However, I have noted the popularity of the word and I would like to stake the ground on a few future additions to the lexicon.
You heard them here first:
Terribulous
Supicial
Hunormtic
Idiupid
Funnilarious
Delumptious
Paingonizing
Annoyitating
Repitundant
Beautifitacularizinglioustasticalular.
You're welcome, my legacy.
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1 comment:
You made me chuckle in spite of having a cold...thanks! Hey, I've been to Zambia (lived in Nairobi three yrs.), in 1989, really laid-back place, now, I hear, it's booming, took Zimbabwe's place. What a mess there, really sad!!
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