Neologism ahoy!

[flewellyn]

So, my friend Kitling (not her real name) mentioned that she ate fish and fowl, but not pork or beef. And she said "There needs to be a word for 'eats fish and fowl but not beef or pork'".

My idea: "nonmammaltarian!"

Comments

[eclipsis.livejournal.com]

You of all people will appreciate this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7e0qd_the-new-office-girl_animals

:-D

[aggiebell.livejournal.com]

...It would help if I could read*. I was like, noMmammaltarian? Wouldn't that be nomming on mammals? Buzzuh? And then I realized it was an n.

*9 down became much more obvious when I realized** it was geneTic material, not geneRic material.

**Somewhere around reread number 11.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

I read it that way too. XD

[neintales.livejournal.com]

I just did a post about it in my own LJ, but it's too good to keep to just my flist.

A newish food blog done by IT geeks and their ilk (including a good friend of mine from Michigan):

http://www.nomnomicon.com/

[mrz80.livejournal.com]

How about "prejudiced against birds and fish" :-)

(*duck run hide*)

Remember the t-shirt: I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

[happiestsadist.livejournal.com]

Hmm, there actually should be a word for it. There's a damn lot of them.

[nimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Well, for people who eat fish but no other meat, there's pescetarian, which is catching on a little bit, finally, and is a damn sight better than "pesco-vegetarian." Lacto-ovo-vegetarian is the term for people who eat eggs and dairy on a vegetarian diet, so the terms for people who eat fish and/or chicken but no other meat (or any of the various other rationalizations people use to call themselves vegetarians even while they still eat meat) tend to follow suit.

[happiestsadist.livejournal.com]

I'm aware of those terms. And always a bit annoyed at the folks who keep trying to call themselves vegetarians when they're not.

Part of me thinks there should be a term for people like Flew described (and I think "nonmammaltarian" is at least really funny), on the other hand, part of me just thinks "Isn't "no pork or red meat" good enough?"

[nimbrethil.livejournal.com]

I know. I have a friend who says to people, "I don't eat beef," and people actually ask her if she's a vegetarian. She's always, "No. Didn't say I don't eat meat. Said I don't eat beef."

[happiestsadist.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Which is really strange to me, but it does happen a lot.

[nimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Okay, that sounds like an obscure and dangerous medical condition.