Wednesday, February 04, 2009

'To Erdogan' Is a Verb - Nine Things I Learned in Davos - TIME

"'To Erdogan' Is a Verb
By JUSTIN FOX

It didn't take long for Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan's headline-making walk-out during a panel discussion with Israeli President Shimon Peres to begin inspiring linguistic innovation. Bailing out on a discussion early—even without getting visibly angry about it—became known as 'Erdoganning' (As in, 'Steven Schwarzman totally Erdoganned on that lunch.'). Let's hope this catches on outside Davos as well."

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