That should be a word : a language lover's guide to choregasms, povertunity, brattling, and 250 other much-needed terms for the modern world
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Finally there's a word for it: Fidgital --excessively checking one's devices. Martyrmony --staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular That Should Be a Word feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick's wittiest wordplays--more than half of them new--arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships. Complete with definitions, ? pronunciations, usage examples, and ?illustrations, That Should Be a Word ?features words on our obsession with ?food: carbiter --one who asserts that? someone else cannot be hungry. On? social media, like twiticule --to mock? someone in 140 characters. On the ?modern family, like brattle --to discuss one's children at great length, which leads to words like spamily --Facebook or Twitter updates about kids--and spawntourage --a group of approaching strollers. From highlighting the profound financial anxiety of a post-recession society ( bangst ) to mocking the hyper-vain celebrity circle that abstains from anything? of import ( celebracy ), That Should Be a Word delves deep into all the most humorous, and maddening, aspects of life in the 21st century.