I wondered if you might like a link to both my Foreign word site and my English word website or press release details of my ensuing book with Penguin Press on amusing and interesting English vocabulary?

http://www.thewonderofwhiffling.com

with best wishes

Adam Jacot de Boinod

(author of The Meaning of Tingo)

(www.themeaningoftingo.com)

adamjacot@fastmail.co.uk

or wish to include:

1) THE MEANING OF TINGO
When photographers attempt to bring out our smiling faces by asking us
to “Say Cheese”, many countries appear to follow suit with English
equivalents. In Spanish however they say patata (potato), in Argentinian Spanish whisky, in French steak frites, in Serbia ptica (bird) and in
Danish appelsin (orange). Do you know of any other varieties from around the world’s languages? See more on http://www.themeaningoftingo.com

2) THE WONDER OF WHIFFLING

The Wonder of Whiffling is a tour of English around the globe (with fine
coinages from our English-speaking cousins across the pond, Down Under
and elsewhere).
Discover all sorts of words you’ve always wished existed but never knew,
such as fornale, to spend one’s money before it has been earned; cagg, a solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time; and
petrichor, the pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a
dry spell.
Delving passionately into the English language, I also discover why it
is you wouldn’t want to have dinner with a vice admiral of the narrow
seas, why Jacobites toasted the little gentleman in black velvet, and
why a Nottingham Goodnight is better than one from anywhere else. See
more on http://www.thewonderofwhiffling.com

with best wishes

Adam

We have a joke around my office about our podcast episodes to mock this stuff. We jokingly call our videos “videodisodettes”.

I say, let’s crowd source for an answer. Wiki it. Leverage the community. Do a viral campaign.

I kid.

But seriously, we’re only annoyed by these terms because we work with them every day. But worse, we have to explain them to nOObs almost every single time we answer the question “What do you do?”

And I agree, Scott — ‘Webisode’ and ‘minisode’ should probably get tossed in the old Dumpster 2.0.

If I hear one more person at a conference say User Generated Content or Viral Video, I might take a pencil to my eye.

Well, not really. If I did, I would definitely YouTube it. ;)

I figured out years ago to just call it “Internet TV” if you want normal people to have any idea of what you are talking about….

http://maketelevision.com/log/what_is_a_vlog_what_is_a_vodcast

– Charles Iliya Krempeaux
http://changelog.ca/