humble brag

[Victor Steinbok]

Thanks. That's what I was looking for

     VS-)

On 12/21/2013 10:17 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> "Humblebrag" won as Most Useful in the 2011 ADS WOTY voting, losing
> out to "occupy" as the overall winner.
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> http://www.americandialect.org/occupy-is-the-2011-word-of-the-year
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> We covered it in the Spring 2012 installment of "Among the New Words"
> and included a cite referring to the "NCIS:LA" usage:
> http://bit.ly/ATNW87-1
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> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Did anything happen with that nomination? There was an explanatory
>> appearance of "humblebrag" in NCIS Los Angeles early in 2011 (which I
>> noticed in an recent re-run).
>>
>> http://goo.gl/f7hAxF
>> (February 23, 2011)
>>> The "humble brag" references were hilarious. You know people who do
>>> this if you think about it. I am absolutely calling them out using
>>> this phrase next time.
>> The two earliest UD mentions are from the same date, one directly
>> quoting the show:
>> http://goo.gl/ByT5VI
>>> Person 1: The referee tripped over my feet last night AT THE LAKERS GAME.
>>> Person 2: Wow. Thanks for the Humble Brag.
>>       VS-)
>>
>> On 4/21/2011 3:55 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>>> WOTY contender?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704570704576275320082913808.html
>>> Whether we like it or not, and especially on social media, we're all
>>> self-promoters, broadcasting even our quasi-achievements to every
>>> friend and follower.
>>> In response, Harris Wittels, a standup comedian and a writer on the
>>> NBC series "Parks and Recreation," created a Twitter feed called
>>> Humblebrag, which compiles examples of the offense...
>>> [Wittels:] "Humblebrag is a Twitter account I started where I re-tweet
>>> people who have committed flagrant humble brags. And a humble brag is
>>> basically a specific type of bragging that masks the brag in a
>>> faux-humble guise."
>>> ---
>>>
>>> --bgz
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