{"id":38228,"date":"2023-01-18T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38228"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:53:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:53:38","slug":"word-of-the-day-859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/18\/word-of-the-day-859\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAFO<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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But with all due respect to the society\u2019s distinguished crew of linguists, I\u2019d say it was a college writing center from Sioux Falls, S.D., that nailed the word of the year with\u00a0its choice<\/a>: FAFO. In case you don\u2019t already know, FAFO is an acronym for \u201ceff around and find out.\u201d It\u2019s a cheeky way to tell people that if they play with fire, they might get burned \u2014 or to announce they already have been. The Sioux Falls gang put a positive spin on FAFO, citing it as representing the \u201cgumption\u201d of their fellow students \u201cwhen encountering a novel challenge\u201d and noting that the Urban Dictionary calls the phrase an \u201cexclamation of confidence.\u201d It is that \u2014 but it\u2019s also a whole lot more. [“Why the scary, funny, profane \u2018FAFO\u2019 was 2022\u2019s word of the year<\/a>,” Amanda Katz, <\/em>WaPo<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yep, I cheaped out, not once, but twice: taking someone else’s word of the day, and going with an acronym. It can be a long, hard slog from acronym to actual word, and it’s not as a sexy as the onomatopoeia route, the portmanteau path, or even the rhyming Cockney slang path, but it’s a way to get on the map.<\/p>\n

And I’m not a fan, as the literal meaning doesn’t appear to include the obvious risk to reputation and even person. It doesn’t have that ringing sense of a word that the President will be using in one hundred years, does it?<\/p>\n

But, hey, it’ll probably get there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAFO: But with all due respect to the society\u2019s distinguished crew of linguists, I\u2019d say it was a college writing center from Sioux Falls, S.D., that nailed the word of the year with\u00a0its choice: FAFO. In case you don\u2019t already know, FAFO is an acronym for \u201ceff around and find \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38229,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38228\/revisions\/38229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}