Monk-ish

[Laurence Horn]

>Oy. More fallout from "truthiness". What hath ADS wrought?
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>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002736179_kay13.html
>To kick off Season Four of USA Network's "Monk," a press release for
>tonight's 10 o'clock episode announces a campaign to advance the term
>"Monk-ish."
>The release defines "Monk-ish" as having traits like the show's
>obsessive-compulsive hero, played by Tony Shalhoub: list-making,
>extreme neatness, germophobia, etc.
>Show publicists may hope for the same attention that "The Colbert
>Report" got when linguists declared "truthiness" 2005's word of the
>year, or when so many coinages -- "Festivus," "re-gifting," "Master of
>your domain" -- reinforced the centrality of "Seinfeld."
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My favorite in the latter category has always been "spongeworthy",
although "soup nazi" gets an honorable mention.

larry