To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.Don't pluto me okay? Or I shall pluto you too. Ha!!
"Our members believe the great emotional reaction of the public to the demotion of Pluto shows the importance of Pluto as a name," said society president Cleveland Evans. "We may no longer believe in the Roman god Pluto, but we still have a sense of personal connection with the former planet."
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
2006 word of the year is Plutoed
The American Dialect Society comprising of linguists, grammarians, historians and independent scholars, has chosen Plutoed as its 2006 word of the year. From MSNBC:
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6 comments:
Don't worry. I won't pluto you IZ.
I dun pluto people one!
So it is an official word now?
It just sounds so vulgar to me like the malay word Butoh.
Hehehe... I hope my boss don't pluto me this year.
Haha!!
It sounds so vulgar that I like!
>linguists, grammarians, historians and independent scholars, has chosen Plutoed as its 2006 word of the year.
You mean all these linguists, scholars have no other real words to choose from so they invent a new one?!
Strange.
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