Another word of the year candidate is immappacy, which is formed by analogy with “innumeracy,” and means the inability to understand maps. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Immappacy”
Every year when I put together my words at the year list, I like to sneak in a couple that haven’t really caught on yet.
Yeah, those are some of my favorites.
Yeah, because there’s always that question, are they going to make it? Has Grant chosen well?
You know, usually I don’t choose that well.
Oh, yes, you do.
But it’s fun in the meantime. And one for you this year is Imapacy.
Imapacy.
With an I. I-M-M-A-P-P-A-C-Y.
And it’s like a literacy with maps.
You don’t know how to use them, make them.
You just can’t understand them.
A mapacy.
I love it.
It’s like innumeracy, right?
Yes, exactly.
It’s modeled after innumeracy.
So it can be a phrase.
It doesn’t have to be new, but it has to be important to the year 2010.
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