If you go back into the ancient history of this blog, you will find one of my personal favorite posts, that of shambolic. Now it turns out that Oxford Dictionaries has a certain predeliction in that direction, at least, based on their current choice for UK Word of the Year 2012. As they say in their blog post about it, this doesn't meant that 'omnishambles' will make their dictionaries any time soon. But this word from a British television favorite, The Thick of It, has gained a lot of currency over the last few years. As they point out, a promising aspect of any words longevity is how well it spawns new words. As an American left-leaning Democrat, Romneyshambles is about as good as it gets--that is, if you discount Romnesia, which I do not.
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But the other side could counter -- or could have countered -- with Romneypotent or even Romneypresent.
ReplyDeleteI will say that I like omnishambles much better than I do clusterfuck.
ReplyDeleteCoulda, shoulda--didn't.
ReplyDeleteOmnishambles is good, but I can't say I see myself using it in conversation.
It's like the good china -- one is proud of it but rarely uses it.
ReplyDeleteI could see myself using "onmishambles" on deadline at work some night.
Have you ever watched The Thick of It, by the way? I know you've seen a fair amount of discussion of it.
ReplyDeleteI'd start with the first two seasons.
I started watching the first episode and thought it looked promising, but got distracted before I got too far. It's on my list though.
ReplyDeleteAs the OUP article said, omnishambolic is a bit more somber, and I think I might be able to work that into a sentence at some point, though I hope I won't have to.
This could be the omnishambolic century!
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah--if we get past that pesky December 21st doomsday thing.
ReplyDeleteOh, the 21st? Is that when the world ends?
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