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Friday, January 16, 2004
I Hate This Word No . 1.
Word of the Day for Friday January 16, 2004 yen \YEN\, noun:
A strong desire or inclination; a longing.
intransitive verb:
To have a strong desire or inclination; to long. But all that duty must have incubated a yen for rebellion.
--Michael Tomasky, "The Candidate," [1]New York Times,
March 26, 2000 Mojo, a fellow who's started a successful ice-cream
business, likes to think of himself as "a post-Marxist with
a yen for a Porsche."
--Michiko Kakutani, "Alienated Young and Their Solipsistic
Pleasures," [2]New York Times, May 7, 1988 We come into the world with a yen for sweets (newborns can
even distinguish among glucose, fructose, lactose, and
sucrose) and a weak aversion to bitterness, and after four
months develop a fondness for salt.
--Jeffrey Steingarten, [3]The Man Who Ate Everything
Yen? Seriously, what a dumb word. I just don't like it.
I mean, Yen is the Japanese currency. Why should it mean anything else, especially something lame like this?
What a dumb word.
"I was very yenny today. The yen of my body flew about me all yened and lined, as if I was in Japan and had a large amount of yen which to spend my yendesires on. I yened to have all I had ever yened to have."
See how horrid that sounds?
I do.
I hate lame words.
Now banal, that's a cool word. Banal should be a word of the day every day.
I can just see people going:
"O Yen is Me. O Yen is Me. O YEN IS ME!"
O Yen is Me too.
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