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Very interesting article.

I bet there's a small, yet fun, opportunity to create a service that will predict new slang words based on analysis of twitter and urban dictionary. I wonder if anyone would pay for that?




That's so jar. No really, I had a friend who tried to make "jar" the new "cool". It didn't catch on. But you're probably right. I could see a market for the notoriety, or at least self-satisfaction, of being the one who coined a popular term or phrase.





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