Totes Ridictionary

by Balthazar Cohen

Totes ridic! Presh! Amazeballs! Adorbs! Obvs!

Whether ‘words’ like these make you roll your eyes in recognition or wonder what the hell everyone is talking about (or both), The Totes Ridictionary will help you survive life in a world where text-message abbreviations and Twitter slang are dancing on the grave of the Oxford New English Dictionary .

Everywhere you look – in emails, tweets, Facebook posts, text messages, blogs and even real-life conversations – Totes Ridicheads are turning words into twee ‘abbrevs’, communicating in internet acronyms, and embracing hashtags as a way of life. And, like it or not, sooner or later you’ll need to become fluent in totes ridicularity.

Packed with ‘hilar’ illustrations and a satirical glossary that’ll help you sort the ‘jel’ from the ‘awks’, correctly identify what’s ‘perf’ and what’s ‘tradge’, and know how to react if someone describes you as ‘gorge’ or ‘cray-cray’, The Totes Ridictionary takes a totally ridiculous look at what happens when language and technology collide.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 2013

Reviews

[Niklas Pivic · Rating 2 out of 5]

Balthazar Cohen's level of being lost is found in this book, where he makes fun of Nicole Scherzinger for being a "linguistic trailblazer" while having himself produced this fairly humourless book where the major spoiler, the one to actually save you money, is on the contents page: "everything's abbreviated". Also, the cheap fonts that permeate this book even make hellaciously unfunny "memes" at the end even more unfunny than if they would have kept the classic Impact font.

[Writerstewie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny.

[Jeni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not quite amazeballs but deffo totes hilar, lol. :D

[Jenny Houle · Rating 2 out of 5]

I spent the entire time I was reading this texting a friend a list of words from it that would make me delete someone from my social media. It would appear 35 is "totes" too old for the internet.