Wow, I'm truly impressed! 50 inspired and inspiring new neurowords were entered in the contest by 30 people. Ranging from jokiness to snarkiness to serious descriptions of science, I think a lot of them are destined to enter the lexicon. Now that you've invented them, you'll use them, right?
Ultimately, that's what determined the winner.
"Neurologism: a word created by prefixing "neuro" to almost any normal word" was the first entry in the contest, and the gold standard. As soon as I read it I laughed and said to myself, damn, it's going to be tough to beat that.
It was. My mind was open though, I was a fair judge, so I was torn between neurologism and several other outstanding words. I didn't decide until today when I saw it used on other blogs. That did it – a word that not only defined the entire concept behind the contest but was instantly adopted by all who read it? Yep. That's a winner.
Congratulations, Neil H.!
And congratulations to everyone who coined a neurologism – your imagination keeps language alive.
great! and a lot of cool links too :) thank you!
ReplyDeleteneurocongrats!
ReplyDeleteok, now i'm getting silly :D
Hi, I'm a little late to address this, and its really not a burning issue for me, but I used "neurologism" in an article I wrote in 2004. It can be found at http://www2.tku.edu.tw/~tddx/jfs/ in the article "Neurofutures: The Brain, Politics, and Power. page 8, at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteHell, someone probably coined it long before then.
I would be interested in feedback about the article itself from readers of this blog too.
Jake Dunagan.
Hi Jake - thanks for bring this to my attention. I'm going to post about it this week; have been on hiatus.
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