Comedian Alex Horne
With the hope that Alexe Horne is able to use the words in some form or another that shall be a great form of influential person contributing towards the filtration of the words. He seems very eager and I certainly think he shall use the words…it’s just a matter of having the opportunity to use them!
He has however said he plans to use them at this years (2014) Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.
“what I need is a tv or radio appearance and I just don’t have any coming up. I tend to do a load of publicity in the run up to Edinburgh but that’s not till june/july”
Despite that being past the deadline for this module, I am certainly encouraging him to continue doing so…so watch this space and I shall see if I can capture some footage of it being used by him!
Reporters & Editors
I have been in contact with a fair number of reporters and editors but with no avail. It would appear that the use of a non-existent word is not encourage, allowed or seen to be professional of such people in the journalist field.
“I couldn’t use a new unrecognised word in the paper or on the Web I’m afraid…”
Despite back and forth conversation with Charles Arthur at the Guardian he responded rather disappointingly, “…Nope. I don’t use words without knowing their meaning unless they’re words I’ve made up myself to be honest…”
I also tried other reporters/editors at The Guardian and tried also with people from the Daily Mail but with no joy.
Copyrighters
Brother who knows has a friend who is a copyeditor/proofreader “…and posts on her business social media pages amusing pictures of language mistakes. She cross-posted one on her Facebook & Twitter pages last Sunday and it went viral in 24hours, got 500 retweets (including by a comedian/actor and The Poke) and increased her followers from a couple hundred to over 2,500! And it got reposted on my timeline a couple of days later by a friend that she doesn’t even know.”
Unfortunately she too was unable to assist due to the fact that “…most of her clients on her social media business pages with whom she’s gained a good reputation for language/grammatical accuracy. So propagating new words which aren’t yet established or have new meanings created for them, wouldn’t fit in with that I’m afraid.”
But later you’ll see this last part may not be such a disappointment see Success on Twitter…
