Neologise With Nomi!

[gnomi]

I coined a new word today for that which I do way too often:

procrastisurf: To avoid a task by surfing the Web

In fact, I'm doing it now. :-)

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Related, no doubt, to "podcrastinate" meaning "to avoid a task by organizing your audio files so that you will have something good to listen to while performing said task" (it is also how I first misread *your* neologism). Its variant "podcastinate" involves compiling mixes for your f-list while you are at it.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like both of those!

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Something *you'd* know -- is there any validity to calling this symbol -- ? -- an "information point"? That's apparently what G's preschool teacher is teaching the kids it's called.

I can make a certain sense of this -- balance with the "exclamation point" and the fact that the symbol often marks places where one might get information, rather than merely designating an interrogative sentence. Still, I was a bit shocked, and distrustful given the teachers' grasp of standard grammar and spelling.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I've heard of question marks being called "interrogation points" but never "information points". I think the teacher is confusded.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of. I poked around the Web a bit, and I couldn't find anywhere that used that terminology.

I think the teacher is misinforming G and his classmates.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I find no such animal in either the Chicago Manual of Style or Words into Type... nor in Eats Shoots and Leaves, which leans more to British style. I don't think it would be inappropriate to ask her where she got that expression; you could try putting it across as innocent curiosity if you don't want to put her on the defensive.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Off-topic.

I finally finished/posted your birthday story.

Look.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Read! Adored! :-)

[cellio]

Off-topic.

Icon love! :-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I snagged it just recently when lanning posted a bunch of new icons. I thought it was just so adorable.

[cellio]

Nice one!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Ostricise (or -ize)

[zsero.livejournal.com]

To behave like the proverbial ostrich, sticking ones head in the metaphorical sand and pretending that the person doesn't exist.

Re: Ostricise (or -ize)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that one.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

Does that include procrastinating by reading LJ, or would that have it's own word?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I think LJ-procrastisurfing is just a subset of procrastisurfing in general.

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

and here i was about to suggest "procrastiblog." :) tho on second thought, that might refer to when you're putting off making a blog post.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm familiar with the concept of procrastisurfing. I will embrace this word. I will hug it, and squeeze it and call it "George". All with credit to the originator, of course. :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like it. I like creating words by smashing other words together. For instance, my brother-in-law the lawyer became my "brother-in-lawyer," and my sister the pharmacist became my "pharmacister." It's the same method that Lewis Carroll used when he coined "chortle." (Or, at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Sounds about right... :-)

[sorek.livejournal.com]

love it! I'm going to steal that word right now.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Why not surfcrastinate?