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Werd
We, oppressed Humanities students, have discovered, through our weeks of crazed paper-writing, that Microsoft Word doesn’t know anything about anything. If “precolonial” isn’t a real word according to our computers, college is a lie. Here are some words Bwog was punished with that red squiggly line for writing recently. Add your own in the comments.
- Mugabe
- Historiographical
- Problematize
- Pwned
- Detente
- Freedpeople
- Radicalization
- Bwog
- Blub
- Precolonial
- Reappropriate
- Francophonie
- Monarchial
- Expositional
- Aristotelian
- Your name, so you [Anish Bramhandkar] don’t accidentally turn in a paper with the name “Amish Brandenburg”
- Heteronormative
- Appomattox
- Bacchae
- Aeneid
- Flyting
- Priapus
- Antagonization
- Privateering
- Commodification
- Heteropatriarchy
- Gauls
- Orientalism
- Recontextualize
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93 Comments
@SEAS 10 First time I wrote Barnard, word wanted to change it to Barnyard
@Anonymous good one. sure haven’t heard that before.
@Anonymous ANALYZATION.
@Anonymous ANALYSIS. Dumbass.
@Anonymous silvipastoral (economy)
@Anonymous Lockean
@Student Pumped for Orgo Night Orgo, gets the good old red squiggly.
When is orgo night anyway?
@This is a problem Velociraptor
@RealTalk heterosocial
@Anonymous apotropaic, performative, constative, phatic, rhetic, misexecution, transmodal, ventriloquization, decontextualization!
@SEAS boy carbothermic
@tired student mercy
rest
love
@Polisci student Also:
Hegemonic
Multipolar
Westphalian
Institutionalism
Disincentivize
al Jazeera
@I just found out that ironize isn’t a real word. would that be ironic if I were an English major?
@With all due respect, I’d like to add “SCATALOGICAL.” No list including words such as “commodification,” “heteropatriarchy,” “orientalism,” or my all time favorite– “problematize”– would be complete without it.
@Jonathan Rick FTW Lockean, willeth, ariseth.
@Jonathan Haňťa (writing about Hrabal)
Deng Xiaoping
Netanyahu
Sennacherib
Assyriology
varenyky
@science major everything
@Hooah Okay Bwog, admit it: you only wrote this post so you could up the big word count on the site and try to move up in Google’s reading level search: http://bwog.com/2010/12/16/the-world-still-turns-while-youre-stuck-in-a-finals-frenzy/
@Anonymous Please let this be true. If so, Bwog, I love you so hard.
@Somehow... …I don’t think one post is going to do it.
@Melanie Klein countertransference
@Reviewing a Psych Article “nonheroic” and “sociosexual”
@imsogladthispostexists ahistoric
Eurocentrism
phallocentrism
intersectionality should be a word
@Anonymous racialization.
UGH.
@PoliSci Precarity
Representativity
Complementarity
Legitimize/legitimization/delegitimize
Wahhabism
Salafism
Excisionist
Islamification/Islamization
Liminal
Anything in a foreign language, and most proper nouns.
@hmm undiagnosing
homonational
Islamaphobia
@Anonymous Grentrifier
Manhattanville
Garveyism
Racialized
Overspeculation
Harlemite
My own last name
@Japan shogunal. Frustrating when writing a Japanese history paper.
@Anonymous “localisms”
@Kristeva overdetermined
@Lacan Lacan
@Anonymous premodern, mythopoesis, bedounization, hadith…and that’s just from one paper.
@Anonymous ugh. *bedouinization. but it doesn’t even matter. either way, it’s not considered to be a real word.
@Anonymous polemicize
I checked the OED, and its correct.
@Anonymous diasporic!
@bio miRNA
@Anonymous Positivity
@Anonymous that’s because pre-colonial has a hyphen
@actually Within the social sciences, especially anthropology, it often doesn’t.
@Anonymous vernacularization, counterpose
@Anonymous racialization
@stupid econ words nonexcludable
nonrival
commodifying
@CC13 locational!
@bio major osmolarity, hypoosmotic, inspiratory, pepsinogen, submucosa etc. etc. etc.
@C5 fucking C5!
@cc '11 this is why i’m glad to be an econ major. our jargon is just as bullshitty as yours is, but at least it’s in plain english.
@ahaha slutsky equation
@Anonymous I don’t see how you can have bullshit jargon if it’s in plain English. Because then I’d understand it, and so then it wouldn’t be bullshit jargon because the point of bullshit jargon is that it’s unintelligible.
CIRCULAR ARGUMENT
oh snap
@Anonymous scopophilia. NICE
@scopophiliac heyyy film student
@Anonymous ughhhhhh regan….she annoys me SO MUCH
@Anonymous I misunderestimated the dearth of MW’s dictionary
@Anonymous Half of these are from papers for Mamdani’s class
@Anonymous Phylogenetic, amygdala. to name a few.
@awkward bro haa…liking the paper bwog is writing on priapus…
ya know….cause…of the penis…
@also deterritorialized
@Anonymous that was pissing the shit out of me on my glurb final
@Anonymous normativity
@How about Prezbo?
@nyt Mr. David as a “drug addict.”
@Anonymous Prospero
@Anonymous schismatics, simoniacs, nicolaism.
And how about all the medieval names I have to write because I’m a Med/Ren major?
@Anonymous Try typing up a lab report and your screen will glow crimson
@Anonymous Abelard FTW
@Anonymous Abelard’s hot. He can totally be my baby daddy.
@Heloise's uncle not after I’m through with him!
@Anonymous As long as you name your baby “Astrolabe”.d
@Anonymous Incestual
@oed is god i got a squiggle under “revealment”
@Anonymous That’s because it’s not a word. It’s “revelation,” dumbass.
@lol lol
@Ben Nothing like dropping “heteronormative reinforcement through cultural egocentricism” in a paper about the Social Network to make you take a step back.
@ALSO Islamophobia
@2011 medicalization
@It was an important moment in my life when I added “Obama” to the dictionary.
Then he copped out on taxes.
@Of course detente's wrong. Because it’s détente.
@On the other hand The always useful “antidisestablishmentarianism” doesn’t seem to trip off any alarms (though maybe my computer’s just thinking really hard)
@also “performative” and “Foucaultian”
@Anonymous foucauldian not foucaultian; though the former gets a squiggly line as well.
@deconstruction! differánce
@Anonymous différance*
Derrida est mon copain.
@Anonymous fetishization ftw
@uhh you know you can just add those to its dictionary if you’re on your own computer
@Do you have any idea ... … how time-consuming that would be? All the brilliant academic terms we have to use? It would take DAYS.
MS Word should be using the online OED!
@It's “monarchical”, not “monarchial”
@Anonymous Well, according to M-W, either works.c
@Anonymous had a lot of trouble with “essentialize” and “oversexualize” in my last essay.
@Anonymous hypersexualize is probably a better word to use anyways
@Same problem... …with “essentialize.” Also, “hybridity.”
@Anonymous Microsoft should just invent a yellow squiggly line for when it just needs to back the fuck off and admit it didn’t go to a liberal arts college.
@Anonymous or that it graduated from Princeton.
@Anonymous aspirational