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What in the Blinch is Wordlab?
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The leading free resource for naming and branding, Wordlab is both
a Universal think tank, where users employ the services of anyone
and everyone willing to contribute their own personal naming and
branding genius to the Wordboard for immediate use, and an ever-expanding
database of brainpan drippings
from the site's co-creators, Quark and Snark. With over 40 categories
ranging from Acronyms to Zen Koans, Wordlab's original think-bank
will have you sometimes smiling, sometimes howling and sometimes
running for the trademark office. Browse and explore the vast riches
herein. At Wordlab, we start at the far-out, and keep on going.
(Oh yeah - you'll find "Blinch" in the "Buzzwords"
feature category.)
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Am I free to harvest this rich lingoplasm?
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While it is true that 99.6% of the original Quark/Snark database
was conceived entirely within the primordial amygdala pond of the
two creators of this little microVerse, that doesn't mean that someone,
somewhere, has not already beaten us to the punch with the same
content. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS NOT ALREADY STAKED
A CLAIM ON ONE OR MORE OF OUR WORDS, PHRASES, OR SLOGANS, perhaps
as a Trademark, Fictitious Business, or Domain Name, or may soon
make such a claim. Please note the fine print at the bottom of every
page.
Common sense plays a role. For instance, we offer "Clorox"
as a nice Pet name; feel free to use it for such an intimate personal
use. But should you decide to launch a successful Internet Bleach
Business with that name, you may get an intimidating letter from
someone else's legal department; never from ours, however,
as our lawyers are all too busy inventing new Wordlabisms for the
Court of Pubic Opinion. Clorox as a pet name is a situation whereby
original content is created by re-contextualizing existing material,
but Wordlab would never suggest you make business-like use of trademarked
content. The bottom line? Whatever mess you get yourself into, in
no way is it our fault.
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I like my neologisms defined for me. Why don't you do that?
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We've kicked it around a few times, but we're lazy, and busy, so
we never got around to it. Actually, as incredible as it may sound
we have philosophical reasons not to define our nomencreations.
Many words or phrases we invent may have a distinct meaning to us,
but many more do not. Each person who reads or uses a coined word
brings a different possible interpretation to it. We prefer not
to limit the scope of your imagination by imposing a single definition.
To us, Dow Jonestown may mean one thing, but to you it may
mean something else entirely. Why should we tell you which color
Kool-Aid to drink?
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Who can benefit from Wordlab's brilliance?
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Whether you are a writer, editor, webmaster, entrepreneur, rock
'n roller, English professor, racehorse owner, overworked advertising
copywriter, marketeer, Hollywood producer, deadline journalist,
leery linguist, would-be Great American Novelist, penurious poet
or future Nobel laureate, you're sure to find something here to
inspire or retire you.
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How do I use Wordlab?
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Wordlab's ever-expanding database of lingoventions is at your disposal.
Select from over 40 different Feature Categories in the pull down
menu, from Acronyms to Zen Koans, and you will automatically be
taken to that category. The Big
List shows the most recent 250 additions to the Wordlab database,
along with all entries arranged alphabetically by letter. Or, enter
any single word or string of letters in the search box to the left
and press GO!
There is also an Advanced
Search page, where in addition to the Standard Search just mentioned
there are two other options for finding informatin on Wordlab: 1)
Beginning String Search, which finds all entries that begin
with whatever string or word you enter; and 2) Site Search - a search
engine from Atomz where you can enter entire phrases (in quotation
marks) and search all of Wordlab, from the Big List to individual
Wordboard entries.
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Are you looking for a unique name or slogan for your business or
personal use?
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Simply post your specific needs to Wordlab's discussion forum,
the Wordboard, where
you are sure to get a variety of responses from members of the Wordlab
community as well as the Wordlab team. You can also browse through the archives of
the old Wordboard and look at the responses to past threads.
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Does it cost me anything?
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An Alm and a Lug, perhaps, but no dinero. Wordlab content is entirely
100% FREE! Save for the domain names we have registered, some of
which are for sale. All we ask is that you tell us how you use our
material, so that we may incorporate that information into our own
shameless self-promotion.
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How can I participate?
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While we are unable to add your suggestions to Wordlab's original
content database, you can say anything you want to us, to each other,
and to the world about anything relating to naming, branding, language
and wordplay on the Wordboard
forum. Also, we are continually working to develop new
features, ideas, and games, both static and interactive, so come
back regularly.
Fell free to email us your spam comments, suggestions
and hostile takeover offers from our Contact
page.
Wordlab - Reinverting the English language.
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