August 27, 2008

Flava-flav word of the day

Have you heard the new Wendy’s commercial for some sandwich called The Baconator? A guy is sitting at the table and a woman asks him if he wants a bite of her salad. He says no thanks. He then explains it's because he's a "meatatarian" (sp). Huh? I'm all for being creative and making up words. People have been making up words in ads for years. There is a place for it. That place is not in this commercial. There is a word for people who only eat meat. They are said to be carnivorous, or a carnivore. You're probably thinking that carnivore is the opposite of herbivore. Thing is, vegetarian is just a cool way of saying herbivore. In a way, I guess it makes sense. They're just trying to come up with a cool way to say carnivore. For some reason, it just sounds ridiculous to me. You can't just make up your own word for one that already exists, pass it around and hope it sticks—especially if the word is stupid. At least Comcastic sounds cool. So does Farfignugin. Meatatarian does not. There's a word for people who use their brains. It’s called intelligent. I'm going to make up a word for people who don’t, and it’s going to be called meatatarians. The only person who is allowed to make up words is Flava flav. That's not a compliment, either. He only does it because his grasp of the english language is about as deep as a thimbleful of milk.

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