I have no patience for anyone, but I've lots of time for you

[venta]

There will be some proper content shortly. Maybe.

However... in the interim...

I don't mind people making up words. I do it all the time, after all. But there are some neologisms which just make my skin crawl.

I was reminded of this at lunchtime when a colleague included the word "chillaxin'" in a sentence[*]; it's possibly my least-favourite word from the last few years.

Any advance on chillaxing in the horribleness stakes? Has to be a word with at least some level of usage, not something one of your mates said once.

[*] Admittedly, I suspect he did this chiefly because he thought it would make my skin crawl.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

It's an acronym: "You Only Live Once".

It's the ketchup of online discourse, though. Applied to everything indiscriminately, usually as a complete non-sequitur.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, I assumed it was going to be an abbrevi-manteau (eg for "YOu LOut").

I am delighted that my online discourse is restricted to people who do not use it ;)

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

'YOLO is "carpe diem" for morons', said my wise-for-her-years 17 year old daughter.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Looking things up on urban dictionary is apparently good enough for court cases after all. ;-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Quidquid latine dictum sit...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

It makes watching Springwatch a little weirder though - Iolo Williams is now Yolo in my head. Sans hashtag, thankfully.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Sans hashtag, thankfully.

Although if you ever want to annoy him on Twitter... ;-)

[shermarama]

That had been tweaking at me, too. I'd been intending to but hadn't looked up how his name was actually spelt, so thanks for that!