{"id":1736,"date":"2014-03-26T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2014-04-04T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:37:37","slug":"we-need-a-word-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"We Need a Word for That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/694499591_3616a3dcb2_o_converted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"owl, wordbirds, Liesl Schillinger\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/694499591_3616a3dcb2_o_converted.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Charming description of <a href=\"http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/24\/bookshelf-wordbirds-a-fine-feathered-compendium-of-modern-day-neologisms\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\">Liesl Schillinger<\/a>\u2019s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wordbirds-Irreverent-Lexicon-21st-Century\/dp\/1476713480\">Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century<\/a> in the <i>New York Times<\/i> this week, illustrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethzechel.com\/birds.html\">Elizabeth Zechel<\/a>. When confronted by some mind-freezing dilemma, did you ever say, \u201cthere oughtta be a word for that?\u201d Well, maybe there is, in her collection of 200. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/wordbirds.tumblr.com\/\">tumblr blog<\/a> is updated weekly, too.Some of her favorites are collected in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of gems with Schillinger\u2019s definitions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Icyclist:<\/em> a person who bikes in the dead of winter<\/li>\n<li><em>Occuplaytion:<\/em> the fanciful jobs invented for heroines of Hollywood romantic comedies<\/li>\n<li><em>Nagivator:<\/em> a person constantly giving directions to the car\u2019s driver<\/li>\n<li><em>Cancellelation:<\/em> the joy you feel when you cancel something you didn\u2019t want to do in the first place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/?post_type=review&amp;p=84632\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.zemanta.com\/233618465_80_80.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 83px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; background-image: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/?post_type=review&amp;p=84632\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t You Know About the Bird? Liesl Schillinger&#8217;s &#8220;Wordbirds&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/10\/the-word-for.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.zemanta.com\/214383460_80_80.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 83px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; background-image: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/10\/the-word-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Word For&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charming description of Liesl Schillinger\u2019s book Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century in the New York Times this week, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. When confronted by some mind-freezing dilemma, did you ever say, \u201cthere oughtta be a word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"We Need a Word for That!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,51],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-morgue","category-words","tag-creativity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-s0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}