No! No! That is not the word of the year..but the word of the year IS a big disappointment!
The New Oxford American Dictionary has a quaint tradition of naming its “Word of the Year” and 2009′s dubious winner is “Unfriend” – as in “unfriend” someone from Facebook.
Common Uses: “Oh I used to date that frog-face, but now we are broken up. Let me “unfriend him/her/it”
Waitaminit..isn’t that word “de-friend?” Or is just me?
Apparently, facebookers unfriend random people that they have “friended” in order to offload some of the dubious sorts they put on their friend list.
I think “friended” in itself should have also made the final list of contenders, which included “sexting,” the sending of dirty text messages, “intexticated” – being distracted as you text and drive and ugh! The worst word of them all “funemployed!”
If “Unfriend” wasn’t annoying enough, “funemployed” drives me batty! It’s a cloying, cutesy way of saying you’re having fun whilst (yes, whilst! eat it.) being unemployed.
Who are these people deciding the word of the year anyways?! And why must it be a new word? It should be the word (s) that people use the most – like “recession,” “depression,” “shoot myself” or “wait-I -have-a-college-degree- but -am underqualified-to-box-shoes?”
Ugh – I need to “unfriend” the New Oxford American Dictionary for being so uncool.
