Prankle is the New Cool
Anne Zelenka talks about the dilemma of too much “cool” thusly:
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One problem I have in blogging is that people have really good ideas, let’s call them “cool.” And so that’s what I call them in comments on their blogs: “that’s cool” or if it’s a really good idea “that’s really cool.” But I’m tired of “cool” and “hot” is too Paris Hilton. I could say something like “you rawk!” but I’m not kewl enough for that.
Fortunately, my five-year-old has come to my rescue. Late to the talking game, she wants to make her mark on the English language by concocting new adjectives. One day in the car she said this: “cool means hot and hot means cold and cold means lama branch and lama branch means prankle.” So we’ve started calling things “prankle” if they’re, well, cool. She coined “brangle” for the opposite of prankle. So if something’s bad it’s brangle. I think that the origin of prankle has to do with sprinkles, which are, as every five-year-old knows, very cool.
The problem is, no one else knows what prankle is, so if I were to come by your blog and say “what a prankle idea!” you’d be like, “who is this idiot” and you’d delete my comment and make me cry.
Anne, a rising blog star, writes interesting tech and web stuff at Anne 2.0, as well as interesting to parents stuff at The Barely Attentive Mother.
In my book, Anne epitomizes prankle.
P.S. Extra points if you recognized my snowclone title for this post.