# Let's change the language, the SDMB way **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918 "2006-05-31T19:54:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/1 "2006-05-31T19:54:44Z")
Vaguely inspired by this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=373382), as well as this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=370492), I’d like to see if it’s possible to launch a new word, a neologism, upon the world. We would need, first of all, nominations. Then we’d need a consensus, and then finally some Googling to find out if our chosen word is really as novel as we think. After that, we’d have to all of us agree to use it, here on these boards and elsewhere on the Internet. No use bothering with real life for the moment. So ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Anybody have a nice catchy word they think should exist? Give it to us, with a definition. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/2 "2006-05-31T20:37:59Z")
dooficity --the quality of being a doofus ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/3 "2006-05-31T20:44:33Z")
Has anyone ever done “that thing when two people are trying to get out of each other’s way, and they both keep moving at the wrong time”? I call that **Zogging** (from zig-zagging). ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/4 "2006-05-31T21:46:54Z")
**Flinge** - The act of attaching a flange onto something. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/5 "2006-05-31T22:31:50Z")
Ipodlivious–an unawareness of one’s own body on the sidewalk in relation to others’ bodies, caused by listening to loud music through ear buds. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/6 "2006-06-01T00:09:39Z")
Nitciting. If you don’t know what it means, post, and I’ll be happy to pick at you with my references. What more SD word could you use? ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/7 "2006-06-01T00:14:37Z")
I have been trying to get this word going for about a year. A fibjet is a person who is in the background of a favourite photo. Somebody that you do not know. You had a photo made of you and your wife standing in front of the Eiffel tower. Just walking past at that moment- a guy in the background in captured for eternity in your photo. That guy is a fibjet. You look at the photo every day at work. You see the fibjet every day. What I need is a better definition for my word. Maybe that is why I cannot get it up and running. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/8 "2006-06-01T00:41:34Z")
The best I can come up with on my own account is “stinch” – a slight but unpleasant odor. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/9 "2006-06-01T00:42:43Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Has anyone ever done “that thing when two people are trying to get out of each other’s way, and they both keep moving at the wrong time”? I call that **Zogging** (from zig-zagging). [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_241.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_241.html) Personally, I favour “awkstepping”. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/10 "2006-06-01T01:01:48Z")
A railbreaker; a thing, be it a noise, smell, sight, etc. which jogs you out of your train of thought when you are oblivious to all else. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/11 "2006-06-01T15:44:39Z")
\*Integrous \* (adj): possessing or demonstrating the quality of integrity. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/12 "2006-06-01T21:08:22Z")
Well, this thread didn’t get a lot of traction, so never mind. Maybe there’s a feeling we should leave the language well enough alone. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-change-the-language-the-sdmb-way/358918/13 "2006-06-01T21:11:14Z")
Here are several hundred suggestions: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18607](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18607)