Yet More Words of the Future

1. Anglosplaining -- the process by which a white person of non-Hispanic descent chooses to lecture a Hispanic person on Hispanic issues; a word that originally referred to people of English descent lecturing Germans on their own history.
2. Anglx -- English equivalent of Latinx.
3. Ben-and-Glory moment -- a moment in which you find yourself explaining the same thing over and over again.
4. Do an Elsa -- let it go.
5. Go all Sally Field -- seem overly anxious to be liked.
6. The Juan Peron Syndrome -- a term inspired by a story told by my late father about how his American teacher taught him one year that Juan Peron was a great friend of the United States and taught him the next year that Peron was a great enemy of the U.S.

More Words of the Future

Words that are not yet part of the English language but might someday be:

1. bully logic -- the reasoning that bullies use to justify their actions; also, the logic that is used by apologists for said bullies.
2. cradle envy -- envy directed at parents by childless adults.
3. deimocracy -- rule by terror.
4. drugstore revolutionary -- a person who talks a lot about being a revolutionary but never carries it out in practice.
5. evolutionary dictatorship -- a regime that once embraced Marxism but has gradually "evolved" in a less left-wing but not necessarily more democratic manner.
6. extreme art appreciation -- the notion that any art worth appreciating should not be all that pleasurable to experience.
7. fatwa envy -- envy certain Christians feel for demonstrations of Islamic intolerance.
8. genfem -- genetic female.
9. genmal -- genetic male.
10. global primate change -- what happens when the apes take over.
11. gotcha conservativism -- a philosophy held by conservatives who are more concerned with showing how much more enlightened they are than with actually accomplishing anything useful.
12. gotcha liberalism -- a philosophy held by liberals who are more concerned with showing how much more enlightened they are than with actually accomplishing anything useful.
13. hairshirt art -- art that is based on the theory that any artistic work that is not pleasurable to look at must be great art.
14. leucification -- the process of making someone or transforming one's self into a white person.
15. leucify -- to change one's self or another into a white.
16. notophobia -- fear of the South.
17. political southpaw -- liberal, leftist or one sympathetic to the liberal or the left's point of view.
18. vanity politics -- political beliefs that are driven more by ego than by ideals.
19. vespification -- the process of making someone or transforming one's self into a WASP.
20. vespify -- to make one's self or another into a WASP.

Oops!

Apparently one of my Words of the Future is a Word of the Present.

Of course, my siblings and I were using that word way back in the 1980s but still...

Mea culpa.

Mea maxima culpa.

Words of the Future

Words that are not yet part of the English language but might someday be:

1. antisocial disease -- disease that brings about social ostracism of its victims.
2. apprehension fatigue -- weariness of endless doomsday predictions.
3. Artificial American -- cyborg or robot of American origin.
4. Boerish -- pro-apartheid.
5. bookoholic -- one addicted to books or reading in general.
6. caudillo complex -- desire for a strong leader.
7. centros -- “centers”; those who believe themselves to be at the center of the universe.
8. cosmedy -- cosmic comedy.
9. culture Nazi -- would-be censor.
10. culturebabble -- cultural equivalent of “psychobabble.”
11. decade envy -- envy of another (usually earlier) generation.
12. ethnomonophrenia -- the notion that all members of a certain ethnic group either think or should think alike.
13. guerocentrism -- a system in which everything is centered around light-skinned people.
14. guerocracy -- rule by light-skinned people.
15. guerophobia -- fear of light-skinned people.
16. instant history -- a tendency to ignore any sort of historical perspective when analyzing the latest news.
17. Karoshi-prone -- prone to death from overwork.
18. libroholic -- bookworm.
19. madonna envy -- envy of pregnant women.
20. mayfly journalism -- journalism that makes little attempt at historical analysis.
21. mayfly politics -- politics that is concerned only with the present day.
22. milkaholic -- someone who likes to drink a lot of milk.
23. moradodinosaurophobia -- fear of purple dinosaurs; especially acute in Gen-Xers.
24. morenophobia -- fear of dark-skinned people.
25. morocracy -- rule of fools.
26. moroculture -- culture of foolishness.
27. New Hidalgoes -- modern folk with same work ethic as the Conquistadors.
28. nohemians -- liberals who define themselves by what they DON'T indulge in.
29. Old Romans -- ones who believe in traditional values.
30. otros -- “others”; those who are not considered to be at the center of the universe; outsiders.
31. reconquistador -- one who is obsessed with regaining long-lost territory.
32. Roanoked -- absorbed into the surrounding population.
33. rubialatry -- worship of blondes.
34. sincaras -- faceless ones
35. sluritans -- Puritans who like to slander other people.
36. spitwater -- a puritanical Latina.
37. venereal killer -- a person who deliberately spreads or chooses to spread a fatal venereal disease.
38. venereal roulette -- having sex with a succession of unknown partners without using a condom.
39. zopilote journalism -- celebrity journalism that focuses primarily on dead people.
40. zopilote politics -- the use of dead people to advance a political agenda.