Writing for Greater Greater Washington, Matt Johnson has compiled a list of neologisms to describe the unique encounters of contemporary city living.
"The other morning, a taxi making an illegal right turn on red prevented me from entering a crosswalk," writes Johnson. "There's no term for that phenomenon, so I decided to coin one: I was 'walkblocked.'"
Johnson notes that many of the common experiences of city living lack nomenclature, so he details a new lexicon—some of his own invention and some (e.g., sneckdown and salmon) that will already be familiar to the more expressive urban observers. Another one that I particularly liked: "Zonely: adj. The state of an area of on-street parking reserved only for residents of the ward, thus excluding anyone else from parking there ever." (Also known as all of Santa Monica, for those of us here in Southern California.)
Commenters have been chiming in with more neologisms. Maybe you'll do the same here if you also share Lewis Carroll's tendency for linguistic invention?
FULL STORY: Have you been "walkblocked"? Are you "zonely"? New terms sprout in the urbanist lexicon
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