Thursday, May 10, 2007

New Word Thursday: 'Strumbling'

Strumbling [Strum-Bling]
verb
1. The confused action associated with someone who is far more comfortable typing and using a word-processor, than reading and writing on paper. The word describes the impulse such afflicted persons have, when they want to quickly navigate to a word on the page (Cmd+F, or Ctrl+F) and mime the keystroke action with their fingers. This also might occur when a reader wishes to copy text for later use, and instinctively mimes the Cmd+C or Ctrl+C action on the table with their fingers.
Also: Strumbled
"I was reading this newspaper yesterday, and there was a link to a website, so I totally strumbled and reached for a mouse to click on it."

"I had this essay printed out, and I saw a paragraph that had been misplaced, so I hit command+c, with my fingers on the table. The teacher walks in and sees me strumbling; it was terrible, he took off his tie, sat down and laughed for five minutes."

ORIGIN Modern English : Derived from Fumble (umbling) and Keystroke (Str).

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