Neologisms and the g33ks who (don't) love them.

[azurelunatic]

Am I the only one who thinks that "nanowrimo" is

a) silly as a name for an event?
b) reminiscent of something very small, and possibly squiggly, dirty, and/or infectious?
c) potentially difficult to pronounce?
d) only waiting for the day when a kid gets named it?

Comments

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Count me in on a and b, conditional on c.

[wibbble]

ringzero thought that NaNoWriMo sounded like a Japanese cellphone company.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

a) It's better than constantly saying "National Novel Writing Month" over and over again.

b) It does sound rather wriggly, doesn't it?

c) Nope.

d) Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[boojum.livejournal.com]

e) astonishingly difficult to type, possibly because it sounds like it ought to be a four-letter acronym.

[azurelunatic]

Yes.

[azurelunatic]

It doesn't, to my ear, sound like a word. It doesn't sound like it's happy being a word.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Nano, like nanotechnology, and then remo, like Remo Williams. Yeah, I know, it's supposed to be Wri like rhyme, but I *can't* say it like that.

[azurelunatic]

a) Who is Remo Williams?
b) It still isn't supposed to be a word!