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| I propose a new verb: Iselinate | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 8 2010, 03:55 PM (362 Views) | |
| Post #1 Feb 8 2010, 03:55 PM |
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I propose a new verb: iselinate (ize'-lә-nate), iselinating, and iselinated. Also, the noun iselination should be added to the language. The verb can be used with an object or without. The object would be a statistic, usually a number. When someone iselinates a statistic, he repeats is often, can keep the number straight, and generally has made it up out of whole cloth. For example, Senator Iselin iselinated the number of communists in the Defense Department when he stated that "there are exactly fifty-seven card-carrying Communists in the Defense Department." Iselination would be the act of iselinating. Senator Iselin is guilty of iselination. If you haven't guessed by now, the word is named after the fictional Senator Iselin from the movie The Manchurian Candidate (the original, of course). Senator Iselin repeated the communist statistic over and over again, never with the same number of known communists. Once, when being interviewed by a mob of reporters, he repeats the statistic twice, within seconds of each other, citing a different number each time. From current politics, members of the Obama administration are iselinating the number of jobs "saved or created" by their stimulus bills. Can anyone think of other examples of islenation? |
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