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A new dictionary term for those in the flight sim community

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crashaz

Pearl Harbor Project developer
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I was talking with my Dad and struck by the simularities.

In a year following a national crisis some irresponsible official took it upon themselves to act rashly and destroy something that members of the community cherished. The sudden and overnight buldozing left many in the community feeling that something had been stolen from them.

To commemorate these days of infamy I am introducing a new word to our vocabulary here in the flight sim community:



<I>Meigd <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> var interfaceflash = new LEXICOFlashObject ( "http://cache.lexico.com/d/g/speaker.swf", "speaker", "60", "18", "<img src=\"http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/speaker.gif\" border=\"0\" />", "6"); interfaceflash.addParam("loop", "false"); interfaceflash.addParam("quality", "high"); interfaceflash.addParam("menu", "false"); interfaceflash.addParam("salign", "t"); interfaceflash.addParam("FlashVars", "soundUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.lexico.com%2Fdictionary%2Faudio%2Fluna%2FS02%2FS0222800.mp3"); interfaceflash.write(); </SCRIPT> <NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT>/may-gd/ </I>

–adjective <TABLE class=luna-Ent><TBODY><TR><TD class=dnindex>1.</TD><TD>Mayor Daley of Chicago having Meigs Field bulldozed in the middle of the night having a prized historical airfield destroyed in March 2003. Leaving 16 planes stranded.




</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=luna-Ent><TBODY><TR><TD class=dnindex>2.</TD><TD>Microsoft closing down Aces Studio virtually overnight (and via email) on Jan 23, 2008 and thus ending the run of Microsoft Flight Simulator... one of the longest running successful software titles in history.Leaving 94 people stranded without jobs.




</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>



<HR class=ety>Origin:
2003–2008

Used in a sentence.

OMFG... I can't believe we just Meigd again! :blind:
 
crashaz said:
I was talking with my Dad and struck by the simularities.

In a year following a national crisis some irresponsible official took it upon themselves to act rashly and destroy something that members of the community cherished. The sudden and overnight buldozing left many in the community feeling that something had been stolen from them.

To commemorate these days of infamy I am introducing a new word to our vocabulary here in the flight sim community:



<i>Meigd <script type="text/javascript"> var interfaceflash = new LEXICOFlashObject ( "http://cache.lexico.com/d/g/speaker.swf", "speaker", "60", "18", "<img src=\"http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/speaker.gif\" border=\"0\" />", "6"); interfaceflash.addParam("loop", "false"); interfaceflash.addParam("quality", "high"); interfaceflash.addParam("menu", "false"); interfaceflash.addParam("salign", "t"); interfaceflash.addParam("FlashVars", "soundUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.lexico.com%2Fdictionary%2Faudio%2Fluna%2FS02%2FS0222800.mp3"); interfaceflash.write(); </script> <noscript></noscript>/may-gd/ </i>

–adjective <table class="luna-Ent"><tbody><tr><td class="dnindex">1.</td><td>Mayor Daley of Chicago having Meigs Field bulldozed in the middle of the night having a prized historical airfield destroyed in March 2003. Leaving 16 planes stranded.




</td></tr></tbody></table><table class="luna-Ent"><tbody><tr><td class="dnindex">2.</td><td>Microsoft closing down Aces Studio virtually overnight (and via email) on Jan 23, 2008 and thus ending the run of Microsoft Flight Simulator... one of the longest running successful software titles in history.Leaving 94 people stranded without jobs.




</td></tr></tbody></table>



<hr class="ety">Origin:
2003–2008

Used in a sentence.

OMFG... I can't believe we just Meigd again! :blind:
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If it flies, you will have claim to a legacy.
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LOL, I like it.

So basically, MS royally Meigd up! :ernae:
 
The airport was named after Merrill C, Meigs - so if you're going to coin a new phrase, you would have to say Meigsd up and to make it typographically correct and readable in Anglic languages, you'd have to add an "e".

As in they've really meigsed that up...
 
I gotta chuckle. I love it, truly i do, but i grew up in a small illinois town called LaSalle, and to us, Meig was always pronounced Mig. The reason i chuckles is that in some ways, it really does feel like we got mig'd.. Congrats on this, i hink it's a wonderful term.
 
I heared once that if you want to have a word added to a dictionary, is to have an article about this word in a major news paper or magazine. This was done for the dutch word serendipiteit (serendipity) which means an not intential discovery while you are looking for something completely different.
I think it might be possible to wright an article about "meigd" with the examples presented above and have the word added. It would be very cool if this community had the power of adding words to a dictionary.

kind regards,

Meso
 
*meigsed*
I like it.
Kinda goes well along with the old sailor's term "being shanghai'd" when they got lured, tricked and robbed on forreign soil.
 
Hopefully the aces team will move down here to Pensacoala NAS (The birthplace of naval training aviation) And re-start the process..because here nobody gets laid off..our country depends on it..the planes fly all day long here...The most beautifull suntaned girls are here too on sugar white sands of pensacola beach...and by the way--they love aviators and FS9/FSX types..there are no corporate bosses here..just those who know what is the right thing to do..Get out of the frigid go nowhere cold and come down here:amen:
 
I think a much more approprite word is BALLMERED !!!

I can see this being used frequently in the future to describe being screwed by an idiot.

:typing::typing::typing::typing: :173go1: :hand: :hand: :hand:
 
I heared once that if you want to have a word added to a dictionary, is to have an article about this word in a major news paper or magazine. This was done for the dutch word serendipiteit (serendipity) which means an not intential discovery while you are looking for something completely different.
I think it might be possible to wright an article about "meigd" with the examples presented above and have the word added. It would be very cool if this community had the power of adding words to a dictionary.
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As I understand it to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary (the big one that has words no one has used for decades and fills up several shelves) a word has to appear in two separate instances in a published document. I'm fairly sure they can now be online. However the editors still have the final say so there has to be some merit in including the word.
 
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