"Locavore" is Oxford Word-of-the-Year
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 15 14:06:49 UTC 2007
Aman, bruh! ("Aman" and "Amin" alternate freely.)
-Wilson
On 11/14/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 1:32 PM -0500 11/14/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >Locavore: "one who vores locally"! Okay, now I get it. There are are
> >some cases in which it's necessary *not* to have had the benefit of a
> >classical education.
> >
> >-Wilson
>
> It does seem somewhat odd, but I guess it's too late to do anything
> about it (other than vote for or against on WOTY day). Me, I'm a
> locovore.
>
> LH
>
> >On 11/13/07, Clai Rice <cxr1086 at louisiana.edu> wrote:
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> >> Poster: Clai Rice <cxr1086 at LOUISIANA.EDU>
> >> Subject: Re: "Locavore" is Oxford Word-of-the-Year
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> >> I notice that the verb "tase" is a runner up. The Chronicle of Higher
> >> Education reacted to the usage issues:
> >> The verb isn't capitalized even though the noun from which it derives is.
> >> ...
> >> Readers may imagine that the new linguistic terrain caused some
> >> consternation at the fastidious Chronicle. But even we used "tase" as a verb
> >> before Oxford's announcement.
> >> http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=3417&at
> >>
> >>
> >> --Clai Rice
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Barry Popik [mailto:bapopik at GMAIL.COM]
> >> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 5:33 PM
> >> > Subject: "Locavore" is Oxford Word-of-the-Year
> >> >
> >> > "Locavore." Someone named Ben Zimmer praises this food word.
> >> > This, from a dictionary that doesn't even have "ranch" dressing!
> >> > ...
> >> > ...
> >> > ...
> >> > http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/locavore/
> >> > Oxford Word Of The Year: Locavore
> >> > November 12, 2007
> >> >
> >> > It's that time of the year again. It is finally starting to
> >> > get cold (if you are worried about the global warming maybe
> >> > you should become
> >> > carbon-neutral) and the New Oxford American Dictionary is
> >> > preparing for the holidays by making its biggest announcement
> >> > of the year. The
> >> > 2007 Word of the Year is (drum-roll please) locavore.
> >> >
> >> > The past year saw the popularization of a trend in using
> >> > locally grown ingredients, taking advantage of seasonally
> >> > available foodstuffs that can be bought and prepared without
> >> > the need for extra preservatives.
> >> >
> >> > The "locavore" movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers'
> >> > markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that
> >> > fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better.
> >> > Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an
> >> > environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over
> >> > long distances often requires more fuel for transportation.
> >> >
> >> > "The word 'locavore' shows how food-lovers can enjoy what
> >> > they eat while still appreciating the impact they have on the
> >> > environment,"
> >> > said Ben Zimmer, editor for American dictionaries at Oxford
> >> > University Press. "It's significant in that it brings
> >> > together eating and ecology in a new way."
> >> >
> >> > "Locavore" was coined two years ago by a group of four women
> >> > in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try
> >> > to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius.
> >> > Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some
> >> > groups refer to themselves as "localvores" rather than
> >> > "locavores." However it's spelled, it's a word to watch.
> >> >
> >> > Runners-up for the 2007 Word of the Year include:
> >> >
> >> > aging in place: the process of growing older while living in
> >> > one's own residence, instead of having to move to a new home
> >> > or community
> >> >
> >> > bacn: email notifications, such as news alerts and social
> >> > networking updates, that are considered more desirable than
> >> > unwanted "spam"
> >> > (coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh in Aug. 2007 and popularized in
> >> > the blogging community)
> >> >
> >> > cloudware: online applications, such as webmail, powered by
> >> > massive data storage facilities, also called "cloud servers"
> >> >
> >> > colony collapse disorder: a still-unexplained phenomenon
> > > > resulting in the widespread disappearance of honeybees from
> >> > beehives, first observed in late 2006
> >> >
> >> > cougar: an older woman who romantically pursues younger men
> >> >
> >> > MRAP vehicle: Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle,
> >> > designed to protect troops from improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
> >> >
> >> > mumblecore: an independent film movement featuring low-budget
> >> > production, non-professional actors, and largely improvised dialogue
> >> >
> >> > previvor: a person who has not been diagnosed with a form of
> >> > cancer but has survived a genetic predisposition for cancer
> >> >
> >> > social graph: the network of one's friends and connections on
> >> > social websites such as Facebook and Myspace
> >> >
> >> > tase (or taze): to stun with a Taser (popularized by a Sep.
> >> > 2007 incident in which a University of Florida student was
> >> > filmed being stunned by a Taser at a public forum)
> >> >
> >> > upcycling: the transformation of waste materials into
> >> > something more useful or valuable
> >> >
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> >
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> >come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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