Wednesday, October 15, 2008

A lesson in linguistics

Zonino: (zoh-nee-no)
"Used in the same context, and with the same emotion as "Woohoo!" when you are celebrating/very satisfied with something. Originating from predictive text on mobile phones when "woohoo" is typed in." (Courtesy: Urban Dictionary)

If you use T9 word for text messaging, open your phone right now and try to type in "woohoo".
I'll wait.

Zonino came up, didn't it! I knew it!

Thank Sri for discovering this gem in a celebratory text message early this year.
Use it at your leisure- it is not restricted to text message use. I find it gets a particularly entertaining reaction when used ironically the subject line of an [other wise boring] office email.
Zonino!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thank you for clarifying.
Also, I love it. i will use it with great pride and claim it as my own. Thank you for being nice and sharing.

whitney! said...

I said it outloud the other day... got some confused looks, but no one directly questioned me!