Official Proclimation: Frood, Froods, and Froodness

[mishalak]

A New Definition

§ Whereas as I, Mishalak, the Minister of Memory and Culture for the incomparable City of Denver have noted that the need for a word meaning to know a person, but not well enough to call that person a friend.

§ Whereas using the word acquaintance to describe such persons is cool, impersonal, and awkward.

§ I do hereby declare that the world Frood coined by the extraordinary author Douglas Adams in his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to be used to describe such personages and relationships.

§ Given under my authority this day the 9^th of December in the year Two-Thousand and Three.

   Mishalak

Comments

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

I, rmoorman, by the power vested in me by the granfalloon of the Ministry of Pre-Legitimate Semantic Repurposiveness, do hereby recommend that:

• The noun "frood" be used to replace the word "acquaintance", especially when a lightweight friendship is conducted in 'real life' (that is, somewhere besides LiveJournal).


• The noun "frelj" be used to indicate "somebody on my LiveJournal friends list".

Examples:

"I would like to befrood the cute man. Ohhhh, yes I would!"
"If you can't stand his comments, just unfrelj the twerp."
"I wish she would stop behaving so froodily until we've been introduced."
"How he actually keeps up with three hundred and twelve freljs is quite beyond me."
"Froody? Him? Ha! *Completely* towel-clueless!"
"I'd like to enfrelj her, but I'm afraid to get sucked into the drama."
"You know, there must be a million people I'd enfrelj who I wouldn't befrood at all!"