Monday, February 4th, 2008...10:15 pm - Rachael Hainsworth
Pod slurping informania with a touch of password fatigue, please. Hold the sauce.
Pod Slurping is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year for 2007.
Announcing the award today, the Australian dictionary’s three-member selection committee said the expression’s inventive and sensuous appeal had seduced them. Pod slurping, officially listed as a noun, is the downloading of large quantities of data to an MP3 player or memory stick from a computer.
The committee gave an honourable mention to the noun infomania - the tendency to give immediate attention to incoming messages such as email and text messages, resulting in constant distraction and a corresponding drop in the recipient’s attention levels and work performance.
People’s Choice Award went to password fatigue. This noun means the level of frustration caused by having too many different passwords to remember, resulting in an inability to remember even those most commonly used.
1 Comment
February 6th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Infomania and password fatigue, that’s what I suffer from.
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