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When you think of a new word, and it is rather obvious, the odds are that someone else has thought of it. With the supply of media outpacing the inventory of messages, it is no wonder that some things are blown up out of proportion. The outcry over the Cheerios commercial is one recent example. The commenters at Youtube are not the arbiters of American thought. Even the ones employed by General Mills to spike cereal sales.
So PG began to ponder the word nontroversy, obviously derived from controversy. It only generates 24k results at google, which means it is almost an original thought. Word spy and urban dictionary have it listed. There is a twitter hashtag, #nontroversy. Most of the tweets use the word controversy.
There was a story in Coeur d’Alene ID. “Councilman Mike Kennedy thought he’d struck gold Thursday when he conjured the word “nontroversy.” According to Mike’s definition, “nontroversy” means roughly “a ginned up scandal, controversy or otherwise politically inspired nonsense by some political partisan (from either side).” In jest, Mike was busy on his Facebook wall calling for a lawyer to help him copyright the word when a buzz-killer noted that “nontroversy” was already defined in the “Urban Dictionary. Approximate same definition.”
Since the opposite of con is pro, a search for protroversy. This is not the same as the movie Promtroversy. This word only has 87 results on google. It is also tough to say out loud.
The best result is from Arguments Anonymous. “Harry, I once created a great deal of controversy. Or was that PROtroversy? I know that the pro’s are better at it than the cons, but of course, pro’s have not yet been busted and cons have been incarcerated. Or, did I lose the subject? I mean, a verb and a predicate make a sentence, and a con gets to serve it!”
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