Man-words in the media
Bromance gets a shout out in the New York Times--the real New York Times no less, not even in the Styles section. W00t!, perhaps, a fan of the Merriam-Webster word of the year might exclaim. Unfortunately, the article classifies the word as "goofy throwaway blends in which two words combine syllables and meanings to make one". This author has clearly never been bromanced.
On the other hand, the article does properly identify lolcat, or "an odd or funny picture of a cat given a humorous and intentionally ungrammatical caption in large block letters", as a word of the year. I agree with that assessment because how can one argue with this:
On the other hand, the article does properly identify lolcat, or "an odd or funny picture of a cat given a humorous and intentionally ungrammatical caption in large block letters", as a word of the year. I agree with that assessment because how can one argue with this: