The 10 Most Looked Up Words of 2012

The only word on that list that surprised me was schadenfreude.

Most of them are simply the words that are the centre of arguments, so no fucking derr people are gonna look up their definition. It's not because they don't understand the the words meanings' any worse than any other word, it's that due to arguments it necessitates looking up the dictionary definition/s.
 
I'm surprised that "moot" isn't on that list. I hear people all time saying "mute", as in "It's a mute issue now...", instead of "moot." When I point out that the correct word is "moot" they all complain that "moot" is not a word. I tell them to look it up on the all knowing Internet.
 
rivertown_rat said:
I'm surprised that "moot" isn't on that list. I hear people all time saying "mute", as in "It's a mute issue now...", instead of "moot." When I point out that the correct word is "moot" they all complain that "moot" is not a word. I tell them to look it up on the all knowing Internet.
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No ... it actually is a "mute" issue because some people don't really listen to what you are saying anyway so you might as well be "Mute" :p
 
RGMBill said:
Yep... 'cuz they haven't seen one in a LONG, LONG time.
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Yup. Stupid federal government imposed limits on how much douchebaggery states could inflict on their own residents.Everything has been nothing but hell and handbaskets ever since.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go drink from whatever drinking fountain I feel like drinking from.
 
I bet there is a logical reason for most of those words. For example, marriage was probably looked up so they could see that it was defined as a union between a man and a woman.

Meme was probably looked up so much so they could find the hot crazy girlfriend chick.

I have no idea wtf schadenfreude is.

And people probably looked up touche so they could get the little line above the e.
 
Stiletto said:
Yeah, okay. Make the American stereotypes instead of recognizing that the states(and/or people) in the US have the power of the tenth amendment to the Constitution, which gives them all powers not enumerated in the Constitution. Canada has no such legislation.

What is interesting, though, is that Canada has been far more sensible with its federal spending we have. Obviously, they don't have nearly the military resources we have, but they also have far less state grants. More spending is done at the local level, which is the way the USA should be heading. Unfortunately, there's a deep chasm in the way which we're likely going to collapse into before we wake up to the reality of our unsustainable entitlement infrastructure.
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Keep in mind I was using Quebec as an EXAMPLE of state's rights gone out of control.

Canada doesn't have grants, but they have another system that people don't like, where, simply put, the provinces with a lot of money make payments to the ones that don't.

Also some of the deals the Canadian government makes to keep costs down wouldn't play nice in the US. The Canadian government has a near draconian hold on medication prices to keep them low, for example. Companies aren't prevented from making a profit, but it's the type of thing that people advocating for the rights of corporations and free market would absolutely hate in the US.
 
OEM said:
I bet there is a logical reason for most of those words. For example, marriage was probably looked up so they could see that it was defined as a union between a man and a woman.

Meme was probably looked up so much so they could find the hot crazy girlfriend chick.

I have no idea wtf schadenfreude is.

And people probably looked up touche so they could get the little line above the e.
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Schadenfreude is german, a term meaning "shameful joy". It's where you take joy in the misery of others.

So I guess it must be the german word for "Internet".
 
ballistic90 said:
Keep in mind I was using Quebec as an EXAMPLE of state's rights gone out of control.

Canada doesn't have grants, but they have another system that people don't like, where, simply put, the provinces with a lot of money make payments to the ones that don't.

Also some of the deals the Canadian government makes to keep costs down wouldn't play nice in the US. The Canadian government has a near draconian hold on medication prices to keep them low, for example. Companies aren't prevented from making a profit, but it's the type of thing that people advocating for the rights of corporations and free market would absolutely hate in the US.
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Sounds an awful lot like "price fixing" to me. I was excoriated in another thread for daring to suggest that price fixing is not the most satanic activity imaginable.
 
We do not have spell check on the program that we use to create invoices and reports. I catch myself looking up many words for the spelling just because they do not look right when I am typing. So instead of typing a report with misspelled words, I would rather take a moment and check myself.
 
rivertown_rat said:
I'm surprised that "moot" isn't on that list. I hear people all time saying "mute", as in "It's a mute issue now...", instead of "moot." When I point out that the correct word is "moot" they all complain that "moot" is not a word. I tell them to look it up on the all knowing Internet.
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cue and queue mix-ups are my pet peeves as well.
 
Stiletto said:
Sounds an awful lot like "price fixing" to me. I was excoriated in another thread for daring to suggest that price fixing is not the most satanic activity imaginable.
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Price fixing works in the opposite direction, though. This is kind of the regulatory turn around where a force or institution (government in this case) exerts force in some fashion to keep prices low. In this case it's because the buying of the medication is done by the government itself, and it keeps the cost to the taxpayers down.

It's good for the people that pay taxes, but not so good for the companies that sell the medication.

Price fixing is internal, and involves people within the industry making back-door deals to artificially raise prices, or to keep them high. Price fixing works, because if you get enough companies buying into it, they can exert pressure onto the companies that aren't involved to fall into line, and possibly run out of business.

So yeah, similar to price fixing, but the opposite end of the spectrum. Is it ethical? That's... a hard thing to answer. It sure looks good to you if it's your money that gets spend on it, though.
 
People can't spel, so obviosly theyl use a dicktionary to look up proper speling. It just so hapens that those werds were comon this year!
 
ballistic90 said:
Price fixing works in the opposite direction, though. This is kind of the regulatory turn around where a force or institution (government in this case) exerts force in some fashion to keep prices low. In this case it's because the buying of the medication is done by the government itself, and it keeps the cost to the taxpayers down.

It's good for the people that pay taxes, but not so good for the companies that sell the medication.

Price fixing is internal, and involves people within the industry making back-door deals to artificially raise prices, or to keep them high. Price fixing works, because if you get enough companies buying into it, they can exert pressure onto the companies that aren't involved to fall into line, and possibly run out of business.

So yeah, similar to price fixing, but the opposite end of the spectrum. Is it ethical? That's... a hard thing to answer. It sure looks good to you if it's your money that gets spend on it, though.
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Saying price fixing works in the opposite direction is like using the phrase "reverse racism". No. There is price fixing, and it fully applies whether it's the Canadian government setting a ceiling on prescription drug costs, or whether it's a cabal of screen manufacturers agreeing to a price minimum.

price fix·ing also price-fix·ing (prsfksng)
n.
1. The setting of commodity prices artificially by a government.
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Once again, we find the case where people like to attack a concept, but never consider that such a concept may be applied in ways with which they agree. When it is pointed out, people protest that a connotative phrase be applied to concepts with which they agree. Consistency is hard for most people.
 
c4v3man said:
People can't spel, so obviosly theyl use a dicktionary to look up proper speling. It just so hapens that those werds were comon this year!
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could be a lot of people looking up alpacalips ... um uhpakoleaps ... hmmmm ... you know ... that thing on December 21st :p
 
kbrickley said:
could be a lot of people looking up alpacalips ... um uhpakoleaps ... hmmmm ... you know ... that thing on December 21st :p
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I beleev yur theenken uv armagedun...er...armgadeodn...arrrrrmagnum...something.
 
OEM said:
And people probably looked up touche so they could get the little line above the e.
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Someone on Survivor misused it. "That wouldn't be the first time someone lied on Survivor." "Touché". :rolleyes:

Cali3350 said:
Looking up the proper defs of common words is fine. People get 'bigot' or 'touche' wrong all the time.
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How does someone use the word bigot wrong? I would think that would have been more about bigots wanting to find out why people were using that word about them while they were working on preventing minorities from voting.
 
Steve said:
Really? You had to look up "democracy?"
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Why is that so hard to believe? It's pretty evident when you look around that the majority of people have no idea what it really means. People seem to think it means freedom, or that it means the opposite of communism, or whatever. It's an overused and abused term that pigeon holed into any meaning that makes people think they are enlighten and better than anyone who may not have "Democracy".
 
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