[Ads-l] "Kondo" as verb

[Barretts Mail]

My guess is that this will be a short-lived verb, but there are a number of Googits out there:

http://kondoed.com/ <http://kondoed.com/>
THESE “KONDO-ING” PICTURES ARE TOTALLY TAKING OVER INSTAGRAM

https://themagichappinessof.com/self-help-binge/review-the-konmari-method-and-me/ <https://themagichappinessof.com/self-help-binge/review-the-konmari-method-and-me/>
We ‘Kondoed’ the kitchen and the bedrooms and the house feels fresher.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/554089.page <https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/554089.page>
31 May 2016
It's been about a month, but my entire house is almost Kondoed.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA


> On 11 Feb 2019, at 10:28, David Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
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> "I might also urge you to kondo your prose of what I call the Wan Intensifiers and Throat Clearers® - the 'very's and 'quite's and 'rather's and 'actually's in which many (most?) of us bury our writing like so many packing peanuts."
> 
> —Benjamin Dreyer, "Writing proper English: let's call it an act of resistance," Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Feb 2019. https://www.smh.com.au/national/writing-proper-english-let-s-call-it-an-act-of-resistance-20190210-p50wuk.html
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