Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Neologism

I don't recall where I saw it now, it may have been in an article on the Internet, but I really like this neologism:
Multishirking.
Instead of multitasking, I think I may be more successful at multishirking!

Shirking means to avoid responsibility, and Multi means to do it multiple times. So I don't think a definition is necessary. I also don't think it will be in my dictionary anyway. But new words are invented every day. If they catch on, they eventually get into the dictionary and gain respectability.

Neologism is a fancy word for a new word! (It comes to us through French.)

1 comment:

KA said...

Multishirking and multitasking are one and the same .. shirking A means doung B and so on