WoUtNW

[kirisutogomen]

The Word of Until the Next WoUtNW is pastiche.

It is from the same root as pasta and paste, which trace back to Greek words meaning "barley porridge" and before that, "sprinkled with salt". Its modern meanings exhibit only slightly less range, as it can refer to an early stage of pidgin language development, a postmodern drama technique, professional fanfic, or hodge-podges of whatever kind. Closely related to bricolage, which was the other strong contender for this WoUtNW.

(Oh, and in an unrelated note, I hope people actually clicked through on the infographic in this post, "Infographic" as it is almost entirely unreadable at the resolution I got by posting from Flickr. Why Flickr insists on only letting me post at such an unhelpful size is unknown to me.

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I tried to do an internal vocabulary lookup for "bricolage" but all I came up with was this.

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

"The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement."

wtf youtube

Does this mean the makers of Ricola actually sent legal threats to have their own advertisement removed? Are they super-embarrassed that people might find it catchy? Have they got a new all-monotone ad campaign they're more proud of?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

How often do you link-check the comments in your journal, anyway? :)

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Not especially often, but I wanted to watch a commercial for cough drops.