Sure plays a mean pinball

Pinball flippers by ElHeineken, Wikimedia Commons

Min Gud, I love Radio Sweden. This was one of their features on today's (3 January 2012) broadcast, a segment on new words added to the Swedish language during 2011.

"Pinball parent" is pretty cute--and I'm oddly comforted to know that the "flipper" form of parenting isn't limited to the U.S. Really, it sounds like the lazy-assed manager approach to child-rearing, so I just assumed it was American, yet another "gift" from our MBA glut.

There are some other goodies, but my favorite has to be one of the terms mentioned in the podcast, "attitude incontinence," which refers to the phenomenon of someone rather too generously sharing their opinions about everything with everyone all the time.

It sounds so much classier than "diarrhea of the mouth," inte det?

Ja, it does.