Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Yahademic

I think I may have coined a new word and it is a noun. Actually, it is a portmanteau of 'yaha' (Wolof word for waste) and 'academic' in its noun form, but an uninspiring intellectual to be exact. The word is:

yahademic
/yahə’dɛmɪk/

A person who after all the money and sweat invested in his or her education is finally declared learned. And soon after all the excitement from family and friends, he or she chooses to return to regular mindset. You know, of everyone blaming everyone but doing nothing different from the same desperate hunt for convenience and distinction and in a conduct similar to what the Thirteenth Amendment abolished a long time ago.

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