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Smooth Operators:The word "smoothista" has been coined, recently, and is discussed on Language Log in two posts, here and here. It is surmised that "smoothista" is a neologism that is analogous to the word barista, a coffee bartender. According to the Wikipedia:

Since approximately 1990, the term barista (the Italian word for bartender - masculine or feminine) has been used in English to denote a professional maker of espresso coffee beverages. Prior to that time, the less elegant prevailing term was "espresso puller." The shift of terminology probably comes, at least in part, from the fact that most espresso machines manufactured since the 1980s no longer require pulling down on a big handle.

For those in the smoothie biz, it's also worth noting that the Internet domains smoothista.com and smoothistas.com are both available at this time, neither having been registered previously. It probably won't be long before these domain names are registered by some smoothie and, hopefully, used creatively--and "smoothista" becomes a familiar word on the street, and gets listed on a lexicon, like barista.

Posted by abnu on Thursday, June 24, 2004 @ 9:46 PM [ + ]

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