Martha and Grant discuss a strange new word making the rounds: lecondel. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Lecondel Means Coming and Going to Meetings with Few Results”
So Grant, earlier we were talking about nominations for this year’s Word of the Year.
And we’ve heard from several people about a new verb supposedly making the rounds among the Israeli government. The word is Lee Kondel, and it means to come and go for meetings that produce few results. And according to an article in the New York Times, the word Lee Kondel is based on the name of U.S. Secretary of State Kondeliza Rice.
I don’t know, Grant, do you think Lee Kondel has legs? I don’t know. I don’t speak enough Hebrew to say. The only thing I could say that is, ma?
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