Thursday, November 19, 2009

A New Word for the English Language

I would like to propose what I believe is a new word for the English language. That word is MAVINIZED; as in to be mavinized. Based on the original noun, maven, mavenized describes the effects of disapproval of a maven upon those who violate the maven's sense of propriety or social mores. This disapproval may or may not be based in reality as maven's tend to define reality in their own terms. The insidious nature of a maven is that they do not privately hold their views of others actions, but see it as a responsiblilty to alert their social networks of their personal views and decisions about the propriety of others. Mavin's are at their most destructive when dealing with other mavens or those in positions of social popularity. I'm suspicious that E.A. Poe actually meant maven instead of raven as the pronouncement "nevermore" is the intended outcome of being mavenized.

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