[Ads-l] "Kondo" as verb

[Ben Zimmer]

I wrote about this verbing in my Wall St. Journal column on Jan. 17:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/kondo-ing-a-guru-of-organizing-becomes-a-verb-11547745648

Text on Outline (no paywall): https://outline.com/TyjUzm

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 1:32 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > "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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