T-Rex: I am a guy who tries to not let corporations colonize his language! I STILL don't like the word "podcast" because it's got iPod branding in the first three letters!! And yet, I do use one corporate word! And that word...
T-Rex: ...is LOOMSTER.
T-Rex: It's from a brief McDonald's placemat printing 30 years ago, where they had an "improve your fry-cabulary" section. Loomster was defined as the longest fry in the box!
Dromiceiomimus: And you use that a lot? You have a lot of opportunities to discuss long fries??
T-Rex: YES!
T-Rex: Because I've SEMANTICALLY EXPANDED IT.
Utahraptor: Really?
T-Rex: Yep! Over time it's grown to mean "the largest or longest item (especially to an unusual degree) in a set". It comes up surprisingly often - so much so that I've NEVER forgotten the word, despite not ever wanting to memorize it!!
T-Rex: Honestly, in the history of corporate words surviving in my idiolect, it's the loomster
