Dorkus Vocabularis

I've been here, Getting to the Good Stuff, fairly consistently for a few months now, so I decided to Google my favorite descriptor, word geek, to see if this blog popped up anywhere. (Before I go any further, let me clarify that I have never Googled myself, as many people do. I do not have illusions of grandeur, and I really don’t give 2 hoots if I have zero, three, or 33 pages full of Google links.) I really like my little blog I have going here, and I know that at least a couple other people read it, and seem to enjoy it (although I never am quite satisfied that they get the jokes as I’ve intended them to be gotten). However, I was curious if my little piece of cyberspace is visible at all, or just floating, vaporous, into oblivion.

Alright, yes, that end is a little overly dramatic. Sorry.

And, once again, I digress.

After the first 20 results on the aforementioned Google search came up with nada, I began to question these other yahoos... Who the hell are they to use my grand, unique, and extremely witty idea first?? Ok. Maybe I do have illusions that I’d be the first person to call myself a word geek, but that’s not such a toxic one is it?

I browsed a handful of blogs from the search results, and what I found is, in its totality, a bunch of geeks who happen to also like words. Now, a geek is no enemy to me, certainly. I’m kind of a geek myself, but probably more of a dork. I guess what I’m saying is, I found that except for the word kinship, I don’t think I have anything in common with any of those other writers. So I may just have to create (what’s new?) another term for word geek that suits me better and maybe is less common.

How about dorkus vocabularis?

YES! That, my dear readers, is a winner. I found absolutely no other entries on Google with this specific phrase, but when I Googled “dorkus” I found several sites, these two here and here being my favorites, for obvious reasons, unless you weren’t engaged enough in the process to actually have clicked those links. And in that case, back it up baby and try it again!

Now that’s a pay-off if I’ve ever seen one! I love the internet, for its comic relief if nothing else.

Dorkus vocabularis© it is. And as of that very last moment, I made it official by adding it to my Microsoft Word’s list of approved, and therefore, real and recognized members of the English language. I’m okay with it only being an associate member for the time being. Certainly the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary hasn’t gotten word yet…

The question remains though: How could someone of my irreverent and witty variety have chosen the same nomenclature as those other, not so much bland, but cookie cutter variety writers? I don’t understand it. Except that here’s the thing. I’ve done my research. And now I’ve played my hand. I am taking my stand, to set myself apart (not above, apart) from those other unoriginals.

Side note: I just looked to see if I could find a better word for “unoriginal” as we all know I am wont to do from time to time, and found these synonyms:

Blah, bland, common, conventional, ho hum, imitative, mundane, musty, pedestrian, predictable, shopworn, stereotype, timeworn, tired, unimaginative, vapid

Although I wouldn’t describe myself as any of these, I think my least favorite is pedestrian. It sounds so “Shit. Any old body could do that!” Of course “shopworn” and “timeworn” both bring to mind another kind of pedestrian, another kind of person “walking the street”, so I’m not all over that one either. And vapid? Yeah, vapid conjures Anne Hathaway for me. That “deer in the headlights” expression. Hello. Hello? Anybody home? Nah. Guess not. And how about that MUSTY! Yeah! Every woman wants to be...... musty.

Anyway, I think I’ve made my point well, ad infinitum, if you will, that I’d prefer to be original, and witty, and unique. Sometimes maybe even bizarre, quirky, and somewhat outlandish. But ya doesn’t has to call me Johnson.

©Dorkus vocabularis