The idea is pretty simple. Wallraff writes, "A word fugitive is a wanted word or expression, one that someone has been unable to call to mind. Quite probably no exactly apt term exists -- but maybe one should."
Readers write in with particular situations that seem happen to everyone, but have no word that precisely describes the given circumstance.
And so I bring you: Echo word fugitives, situations that happen to all of us that the English language has failed to capture. Until now.
Our first scenario: working with kind, well-intentioned volunteers who have no idea what's going on, and the desire to take over while yelling, "JUST LET ME DO IT."
Post your ideas in the comments, and I'll select a winner and run it in the next installment of the series. Winners will receive a prize yet to be determined.
Also, if you have an EWF of your own, feel free to get it out there.
Happy neologizing.
4 comments:
An ACL plus
The Triple F-- Free, Friendly, Floundering
WUP:
Well-intentioned
Unqualified
Parishioner
(for Harry Potter fans: a Parish Squib)
FUPIB:
Fewer
Unpaid
People
Is
Better
or, in my parish it would have to be...
FPPID:
Fewer
Paid
People
Is
Better
(just as the word doesn't make sense, neither does my parish staff...)
ineptippreciate (v): saying that you "really appreciate all the hard work" one has done while actually trying to deal with their ineptitude
territeer (n):
(1) a volunteer who is terrible at what they do. Yesterday, I saw a territeer catechizing 4th graders that Jesus' body was merely a disguise.
(2) a volunteer who strikes terror into a director, coordinator, or apprentice due to their ineptitude. The DYM expressed concerns about the territeer leading small groups, saying he hoped that the youth would still want to be Catholic after the retreat.
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