Words are Louder than Actions?

Oh this is so worth sharing around...Some of the words have been around a while but have only just been recognised. Some I have never heard of.....

The Macquarie Dictionary Words of the Year 2007

POD SLURPING
noun the downloading of large quantities of data to an MP3 player or memory stick from a computer. In this increasingly tech-savvy world we live in, it seems pod slurping really is the new memory bank for us busy bees. Why carry around vast reams of documents, or CDs or anything for that matter, when you can download absolutely everything! Pod slurping has an inventive and sensuous appeal. The committee felt that the most important criterion for word of the year should be linguistic creativity and evocativeness, rather than simple worthiness or usefulness. Pod slurping also dips its lid to pod, a potent little word of our times.

INFOMANIA
noun the tendency to give immediate attention to incoming messages such as email, text messages, etc., resulting in constant distraction and a corresponding drop in the recipient's attention levels and work performance. [info(rmation) + -mania] –infomaniac, noun –infomaniacal, adjective Infomania is a neat coinage for an obsession to which many of us can so easily succumb, and a word which was created in the early 1980s - very much ahead of its time.

CARBON FOOTPRINT
noun the carbon dioxide emissions for which an individual or organisation can be held responsible, as by their travel, fuel consumption, diet, energy requirements, etc. Obviously carbon footprint is one of the environmental words which is of significance to us all, and a very useful term to express a new social concept.

PASSWORD FATIGUE
noun a level of frustration reached by having too many different passwords to remember, resulting in an inability to remember even those most commonly used. Password fatigue was the most popular word in the online voting, clearly registering a widespread dilemma of the online world.

FLOORDROBE
noun Colloquial (humorous) a floor littered with discarded clothes, viewed ironically as a clothing storage system. [floor + (war)drobe]

TART FUEL
noun Colloquial wine coolers and alcopops, viewed by men as deceptively alcoholic drinks that will lower a woman's resistance to sexual advances.

FOOD MILE
noun a unit of measurement of the distance which a food product has to travel before it reaches the place where it is consumed; regarded as a measure of sustainable development, since the fewer food miles a product travels the fewer harmful effects it has on the environment.

ARSE ANTLERS
plural noun Colloquial a tattoo just above the buttocks, having a central section and curving extensions on each side.

PASSWORD FATIGUE
noun a level of frustration reached by having too many different passwords to remember, resulting in an inability to remember even those most commonly used.

INCIDENTAL EXERCISE
noun exercise that is built into the routine of one's daily life, such as walking up and down stairs rather than taking the lift, cleaning the house rather than employing a cleaner, etc.

FAUXTOGRAPHY
noun the manipulation of photographic or video images to convey a false representation of events. [faux + (pho)tography]

NERDCORE
noun a subgenre of hip-hop music characterised by subject matter considered of interest to nerds, such as technology, politics and science fiction; geeksta rap. Also, nerdcore hip-hop. [nerd + (hard)core]

CYBER CHEATING
noun 1. plagiarism of material sourced on the Internet. 2. engagement in an online romance, the conduct of which constitutes unfaithfulness to one's spouse or lover.

GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA
noun (humorous) the Internet blocking system which prevents access for Chinese Internet users to sites deemed undesirable by the Chinese government.

SLUMMY MUMMY
noun (Colloquial) a mother of young children who has abandoned all care for her personal appearance. See yummy mummy. [slum+ -m-+ -y + mummy]

FACIAL MAPPING
noun the identification of a person from a photograph, video footage, etc., by comparing key features of the face in the image with those of the person. –facial mapper, noun

CYBERATHLETE
noun a professional player of computer games.

BLOATWARE
noun Computers software that takes up a large amount of memory but has, in proportion to the space it takes up, minimal functionality.