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I just learned a new word I already hate:

"frienemies"

Used to describe the relationship between Obama and Hillary Clinton.

What is this, kindergarten?

<<shudder>>

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:20:09 PM EST
Gah!  I HATE IT!!

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:26:59 PM EST
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Seriously. Did you expect troll-ratings? ;-)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:30:44 PM EST
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Really couldn't care less about Hillary as SecState.  I would, however, love to have a list of who sold us out on on little shit Lieberman (I-Tel Aviv) today.  Only two senators -- from the same state -- spoke up in the caucus this morning in favor of stripping HoJo of the chairmanship.  Gosh, I wonder if they were from Vermont.

43-12.  I'd like to know who the 43 are, so I know where to put my money for primary challenges.  Chris Dodd was HoJo's prison bitch on it from the start, so I say he goes first.  Maybe his bff Angelo Mozilo can find him a new job.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:43:00 PM EST
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My disgust for stupid portmanteau words far outweighs any opinion I have about Secretary of State.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:50:24 PM EST
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On a point of PN, I've seen it written 'frenemy'.

Personally, I love neologisms. They indicate that a language is alive. There is a natural process that sorts out the useful ones from the pretentious.

You won't have to suffer long. People will get back to Sun Tzu eventually.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 03:20:01 PM EST
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Wiki spells it both ways.  Or should I consult the OED?  

I love neologisms.  I think I may have helped invent the word "hatriot."  And Jerome shares my joy in the term "hackademic."  But you know "frenemy" was thought up by the same people who brought us "Bennifer" and "Brangelina" and is being used by the same people who say "crackberry."  It's not interesting.  And if you use it, I'm going to think you read People magazine.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 03:30:33 PM EST
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I am empowered by my profession to study and understand the colloquialisms of different audiences. Fortunately, the audience that uses the excrescences you list above has never been one of mine. I'm more of a B2B kind of linguist.

<ducks and runs>

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 03:39:48 PM EST
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"What is this, kindergarten?"

Precisely.

This has been another edition of Atrios-like simple answers to simple questions Johns' style.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 03:51:05 PM EST
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