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New Dictionary Definitions...

(...from the Washington Post's Style Invitational annual competition.)

• Intaxication - Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
• Reintarnation - Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
• Foreploy - Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting...erm...friendly.
• Giraffiti - Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
• Tatyr - A lecherous Mr. Potato Head.
• Sarchasm - The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
• Inoculatte - To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
• Hipatitis - Terminal coolness.
• Osteopornosis - A degenerate disease. (Awarded extra credit.)
• Karmageddon - It's, like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's, like, a serious bummer.
• Glibido - All talk and no action.
• Dopeler Effect - The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
• Ignoranus - A person who's both stupid and an a**hole. (The winning entry.)

Funny Links

• The Dialectizer - converts English text (and web pages) into comic dialects.
• The Language Construction Kit - invent your own language in six easy steps.
• The Chomksybot - automatic paragraph generator.
• Word Spy - site devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases.

Cartoons

Miscellaneous

The Spellchecker Song

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot see.

Eye ran this poem threw it.
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its very polished in its weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a blessing.
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays comes posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're laks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does not phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too please.