It’s Wednesday. Hump Day. So a competition is in order I think.
Merriam Webster is a publisher of dictionaries and reference books and as part of their annual PR campaign ("Buy your three year old daughter a dictionary for Christmas" type thing) they release a list of "Words of the Year". This year’s number one word is "w00t". OK, so far so fun.
Now, our competition is to try and get their list of ten words into a sentence. You’ve got to get all ten words into one sentence, it has to actually mean something and extra points are awarded for it being amusing or crude (more for both, of course). I have of course stolen this idea from here. My own entry into that last competition is here.
Arthouse Snuff Movies for the Welsh.
"Do stop being a flibbertigibbet, cease this persniketty kerfuffle, your plethora of expressed discombobulations questions the value of our art, the serendipitous juxtaposition of love unrequited and the onomatopoeiac smack as our callipygian actress lands after her defenestration will win our film a multitude of awards."
"Well, yes," said Dai,"but look you, all I want to know is why is it my sheep that has to jump out the window, see?"
As you can see, you’re allowed more than one sentence, it’s just that all of the target words must be in one.
This years’ ten words are as follows:
1. w00t
You can put your attempt into the comments here or at your own blog, if you have such. The winner will be chosen by acclamation from the crowd. And yes, there will indeed be a prize. Probably a copy of a book I’ve been sent for review….the winner can discuss exactly which one with me after winning (there’s a couple of possible choices). Closing date, sometime on the weekend….
4 responses so far ↓
1 Ingram // Dec 12, 2007 at 4:24 pm
“w00t, the blamestorm unravelling of Gordon Brown’s quixotic election Sardoodledom is now being seen as a conundrum competition for the least apathetic of the facebook generation of political commentators hell bent on trying to undermine the Pecksniffian charlatan of a man now known as Britain’s Biggest Hypocrite.”
2 dearieme // Dec 12, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Golly, they give the correct English pronunciation of “quixotic”.
3 steve_roberts // Dec 12, 2007 at 9:15 pm
My apathetic response to the sardoodledum of Labour’s treatment of the donorgate blamestorm is to to ignore the Brown conundrum - hypocrite ? charlatan ? pecksniffian ? and return to facebook with a quixotic cry of w00t.
4 Jeff Wood // Dec 13, 2007 at 12:49 am
The definition of Charlatan leaves out Al Gore. Reasons of space no doubt.
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