Smenita: The Blogger Community reacts
Well, smenita has caused huge chaos in the past several days. Imagine how many people had to type that word over and over again. Lost productivity! Blog rage! One man threw his keyboard across the room.
Here are just a few of the amazing things happening out there because of this word:
The Velvet Blog and My Voice chose smenita as their word of the day. Spilt Milk has proposed "Smenita!" as a replacement for "Foobar." Roc Rebel Granny is going crazy! The rage generated by smenita is quite surprising. Even at the Philosophical Blog they're having trouble being philosophical about smenita. The "dreaded" word inspires Sidecar in the search for deeper meaning and also reminds him of the Czech composer, Smetana, and the Czech word for cream.
The first recorded instance of smenita used as a verb (smenitaed) was recorded at Taking A Long View. The predominant semantic collocation for smenita seems to be "dreaded." Three different blogs called it the "dreaded" smenita: Down the Trodden and Germany doesn't suck and An American in Aachen. Oasis of Sanity Blog is remaining calm on this situation. Several bloggers have noted the synomorphic form "srnenita" including The Mom Chronicles.
Up 'til now Smenita is universally recognized as a feminine entity, including at Educating Me and Downcaster Journal.
Kid Ric even got a response from blogger support on this in December.
It's being talked about in Swedish and Spanish. On another Swedish blog, smenita is called "a curse." There's another blog out there with Smenita in the title. Here's who got the original site name.
The happy news of the day: Gustav Smenita of Sofia, Bulgaria has his own blog! Welcome to America, Gustav!
posted by David Ker @ 12:42 PM
14 Comments:
Too funny and thanks for visiting granny and for the link.
I put that mini-post up in the hopes of saving people a little typing and flinging of laptops. I remember the last time only too well when we were all emailing each other "is it happening to you or is it just me"?
Best - come back and see me any time
Ann (aka granny)
We've all got to stick together on this one. Thanks for visiting.
I just wrote a short post and linked back to you. I want to share the joy.
My good friend over at Educating Me posits that Smenita is a female hacker.
(BTW, thanks for the link to my blog.)
Nex time ya get "smenita" as yer werd verifickation passwerd, try typin in "I AM SENT".
Same lettrs ... plus ya GOTTA get some points fer wishfl thinkin.
I was happy to know it wasn't just me. Sometimes I feel like blogger hates me with all the problems I've had lately.
No one hates you, carolyn. Smenita isn't even necessarily the enemy. Perhaps its purpose is to help us rally around a common cause.
Thanks for the link!
Genius. Thanks.
David,
I was the one who wrote about "the curse of smenita" in my Swedish blog A Place For Robots, which you linked to in this post. Just thought I'd let you know. It was the second time the smenita curse affected me since I started blogging in late 2005.
I reacted with slight anger and some trepidation when I noticed the curse was again bestowed upon my Blogger account. It was a much more calm and composed reaction compared to the first time, when I was reduced to a sobbing mess and had to undergo serious cognitive therapy to return to my old superb self.
As for the origins of the name, I can only assume a Blogger employee was scorned by his latina girlfriend who went by the name Smenita. I called random people in Mexico and asked for Smenita, often with the surname Gutierrez to specify further, but I failed to communicate with them as they didn't understand Swedish for some unknown reason (I thought everyone spoke Swedish?).
I found my way to this blog via StatCounter's referrer tracking and I decided to post a ridiculously long response as I am currently procrastinating vacuuming my apartment. Have a nice day.
Smenita may be a special code word. It's an anagram for INMATES; coincidence? When Word Verification goes into smenita mode, what happens?
That's right: prisoners. Trapped in blogular cells, cut off, unable to communicate. I say this is no ordinary outage.
One other thing. I haven't kept track in any formal way but I think a seven-letter WV is unusual, possibly even rare.
eff,
Thanks for your comments. I also think everyone should speak Swedish but they don't. Especially Norwegians. If Norwegians would just speak Swedish this world would be much simplified and so would the orthographies of the world.
I'm glad to see that you had grown between December and March and were able to better cope with smenita. Originally I saw smenita as a curse as well. I'm beginning to wonder if it is on the contrary a vehicle for personal growth for which we should all be grateful.
radioactive jam,
As others have mentioned, smenita is also an anagram for "I am sent." And as I've stated above, perhaps we need to see the duel nature of smenita: frustration but also enlightenment. Trapped in our blogule but simulataneously bonded together with others through shared suffering.
Smenita! Is it a blessing or a curse?
Hilarious. I love that this blog exists and the comments are funny as well. As I mentioned in my blog, "semita" (close enough), is a type of pineapple pie from El Salvador. (My husband's home country). This Blogger quirk has served in giving me severe cravings. Keep up the investigative reports! ;)
Thanks Tee, I love Spilt Milk and I'm sure my wife could totally relate to it (if she had any time to cruise the web).
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