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Revenge of the Nerds?
We’re always delighted to have self-serving tosh arriving on our desk in survey form. As, it seems by the coverage, are many national newspapers.
“The explosion of technology has created the fastest growing language in Europe, according to research published today,” says our email.
One can only imaging the thigh-slapping and glass-chinking that happened in the marketing department of Pixmania.com (“High tech products at unbelievable prices”) when they concocted this: “Dubbed ‘Nerdic’, this new way of communicating via technological terminology has developed separately to English and become the shared language of Europe.”
It was dubbed Nerdic only by Pixmania.com, and try using it for anything more useful than buying stuff from them, but now we’re splitting hairs.
“Nerdic is evolving faster than the English language, at a rate of more than 100 new words per year,” it continues. What’s new?
“HDMI – the new Scart lead allows you to connect High-Def devices together… Android – think iPhone but with a slightly different interface on phones from Samsung to HTC… DVB-H – newly announced mobile TV standard for Europe that allows you to watch TV on your mobile…Pixmania.com has applied to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to recognise Nerdic as an official language spoken by Europe’s population of over 700 million people,” it concludes, smugly proud to be wasting our tax revenue.
Of course Nerdic is not a language - just the result of a highly successful publicity stunt.
If you're looking for real (relatively) new language, take a look at Esperanto.
Posted by :Bill Chapman | April 22, 2008 12:19 PM
During the 1968 recording sessions for The Beatles (also referred to as the White Album), Harrison began working on a song that eventually became known as "Something." Initially based on the James Taylor song "Something In The Way She Moves," the song's first lyrics ("Something in the way she moves/Attracts me like no other lover.") were used as filler while the melody was being developed.[1] Indeed, Harrison's song is occasionally mistakenly referred to as "Something In the Way She Moves."
Posted by :Thomas | April 23, 2008 1:33 PM