<br />Pluto has been recategorised as a dwarf planet <br />"Plutoed" has been chosen as word of the year for 2006 by the American Dialect Society, beating "climate canary" in a run-off vote. <br />If you have been "plutoed" you have been demoted or devalued, just as happened to the former planet Pluto when its status was downgraded. <br /><br />A "climate canary" is something whose poor health indicates a looming environmental catastrophe. <br /><br />This is the 17th time ADS members have voted to choose a word of the year. <br /><br />"It was good that the society focused on a genuine scientific concern, though I believe the nomination came in from outer space," said committee chairman Professor Wayne Glowka. <br /><br />Racial slur <br /><br />The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided last year that Pluto <br />
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Hi alokmohan.<br /><br />Interesting article, but looks as if it has been cut short. Would like to see the rest of it.<br /><br />Hope that life is treating you well in Kolkata.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
Ah, I found a link: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004010.html<br /><br />That's good. I'll need it for Free Space.<br /><br />"<font color="yellow">Pluto got plutoed, but it still won WOTY<br />Breaking news from Anaheim, where the American Dialect Society is holding its annual meeting: the winner of the 2006 Word of the Year vote is (drum roll, please)... plutoed. To pluto, as the ADS press release states, means "to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet."<br /><br />Pluto actually received a double accolade in Anaheim. The American Name Society (which, like the ADS, holds its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America) selected Pluto as its Name of the Year. ANS President Cleveland Evans said, “Our members believe the great emotional reaction of the public to the demotion of Pluto shows the importance of Pluto as a name. We may no longer believe in the Roman god Pluto, but we still have a sense of personal connection with the former planet."<br /><br />Perhaps it was this "personal connection" that swayed the ADS and ANS voters, who felt compassion for Pluto's sad relegation to "dwarf planet" status. Or perhaps it had something to do with the selections taking place so close to Disneyland.<br /><br />If you'd like to relive the plutoing of Pluto, check out the extensive Language Log coverage here: <br /><br />"Gay marriage and counting the planets" (8/17/06)<br />"The Planet Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli" (8/20/06)<br />"New planet mnemonic: Language Log is there for you" (8/20/06)<br />"Piling on 'pluton'" (8/21/06)<br />"Good-bye plutons, hello Plutonian objects" (8/23/06)<br />"Iceballs, revisability, language, and intelligent life in the universe" (8/23/06)<br />"Pluto is a dwarf planet, but</font>
"Make Very Excellent Mnemonics; Just Start Using Noggin!<br /><br />I was going to copypaste the article in full, but upon proofreading noticed this one:<br /><br />"<font color="yellow">Molesting Very Excitedly, Michael Jackson */Edit/* Underage */Edit/*<font color="white">".<br /><br />Hmm...OK, so I'm going to edit this one (leave it white since it's not a quote any more):<br /><br />"Some submitted haikus like this one:<br /><br />Most Vogons Envy<br />My Jovian Silhouette,<br />Usually Not "<br /><br />But, this one is probably going to be the new mnemonic:<br /><br />"<font color="yellow">Mary's Violet Eyes Make John Stay Up Nights<font color="white">".<br /><br /><font color="green">............<font color="white"><img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /><br /><br /></font></font></font></font></font></font>
Try 'Plutoed' voted US word of year. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>
I'm very tired of people saying that Pluto was demoted or devalued, or that its status was downgraded. It was reclassified, and that's all. Whether or not I agree with the new definition of planet, to change from being a planet to not being a planet (or being a dwarf planet) is not a demotion. All the word plutoed should mean is reclassified. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>--____________________________________________--</p><p><font size="1"> Don't be too hard on me...I'm only in PHY 1010 
</font></p><p> </p><p><font color="#339966"> The following goes without saying:</font> </p> </div>
</font></p><p> </p><p><font color="#339966"> The following goes without saying:</font> </p> </div>Only one "s" in those spellings, ceresed and erised.<br /><br />And how would you define them?<br /><br /><br />OK. "Ceresed" would be someone or something promoted beyond their capabilities, like (sorry, can't help it (<img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" />)) "W was ceresed into the presidency".<br /><br />So how would you define "erised"? Does it have any simlarities to "erased"?
<i>Be good to explain.</i><br /><br />I will be good then! Pluto got downgraded, but Eris and Ceres got an upgrade. So if 'plutoed' became a word describing a demotion or downgrade, 'erised' and 'ceresed' (thanks Mike) could become words describing a promotion or upgrade, right? Someone just needs to start using them. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>
Hi, qzzq;<br /><br />I think probably "ceresed" for an upgrade.<br /><br />But what verb or adjective can you use "xena'd" for?<br /><br />Yeah, I know, English is not your native language. But you speak it very well.
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