No, I’m not. I hope you appreciate the maturity it takes for me to say this. In my younger days I’d have said NO YOU PATHETIC FRICKING BIRDBRAIN, thereby blowing the opportunity for a teaching moment. Now, in contrast, I calmly note that I said entomologist because I meant entomologist. Harper’s ran the “fact” about Americans’ shrinking vocabulary twice, in 1990 and again in 2000. The second time around, the citation appeared in an endnotes section where Cornell entomologist Cole Gilbert was also mentioned in support of a fact about the luminescence of fireflies. A few months later, the Vancouver Sun passed along the vocabulary factoid but mistakenly named Gilbert as its source, thereby adding the entomologist to the mythical statistic’s already muddy provenance. I didn’t have room to explain this in detail, but come on - the construction “or even entomologists” ought to have conveyed the gist to anyone even slightly alert. Little Ed, the fiend, thinks we should go back to the old system of signaling jokes with gongs, electric shocks to the nasty bits, etc. Don’t make me say yes.
There’s a great word in Chinese that might be what you want for indifferent - it’s suibian. It can mean contextually “whatever”, “okay”, “I don’t mind”, “you decide”, etc. In the context of “do you want to watch Rambo or Rocky?” and you reply with an “indifferent, but I’m good with either one you like.”
To the Perfect Master: Ha, now we know you check in on “comments.” BTW, IMHO, I prefer subtlety in the joke department. But if you want gongs, come to a big city like Shanghai.
Is anyone else interested in the fact that Uncle Cecil has the ability to edit MORE than 5 minutes after the post?
For that matter, what is the Perfect Master doing having to edit anything he writes at all??? :eek:
And isn’t it Little Ed’s job to do that anyway?? 
Gongs!!! We had gongs?
I will gladly sacrifice :o for gongs.
mangeorge
Nominally, a Perfect Master has all the same powers and abilities on the board as an Administrator (and hence, the full suite of moderatorial powers as well), including the ability to edit anyone’s post at any time. I think, though, that this is the first time he’s actually done so, rather than delegating the task to some lackey, as he usually does.
I believe the word you’re looking for is meh.
It seems I replied to the email notification instead of this post! Silly me. :o
Anyway, I didn’t know that was a real word that I can actually use.
m-w didn’t have it.
dictionary.com didn’t have it.
wikipedia.com didn’t have it.
But google.com found it at unwords.com;
So it’s well on it’s way to popular acceptance. That’s a good thing.
BP; What’s the term for a word that enters the language through common usage?
Hey! the definition uses our other “unword” word, he/she.
Thanks, friedo
mangeorge
Normal?
Nooo! Gimme a day or two. It’ll come.
It’s not axiom.
Nor is it colloquialism.
Is there any other way for a word to enter the language?
Divine intervention?
I’m asking about a once unacceptable word like “ain’t”.
Remember “Ain’t ain’t in the dictionary”? Like that. 
It partly depends on what you mean by “enter a language”. If you mean it one way, then a word can only enter a language through popular use, by definition. If you mean it another way, a word can simply enter by fiat, as “gas” and “hobbit” did.
Idiom, sir?
“Word”?
Brain = assplode.
That’s the word I was seeking, although some would argue.
Some would argue, perhaps, because they look up the meaning of “idiom.”
I had done that, back a ways.
I was looking for the wrong word, you see. And found it.
My funny, eh? 
Some people can sneak a Monty Python reference into anything.
And the world is a better place for it, I say.
RR
I, too, would like to see such a word.
“I indifferent opera.” Nope. And “am indifferent to” doesn’t count. Mangeorge was looking for a word, not a phrase, otherwise “don’t care about” would have covered it.
“I meh opera.” Nice ring, but it still isn’t right.