This blew my mind.....

susan p · 01-03-22, 08:06 PM

Both videofit and vidiot are real words in Words with Friends.

Pam · 01-03-22, 08:22 PM

I thought the word was created on VF! Here's some history of the word "vidiot", that I found, dating use in the English world to 1949!

https://time.com/74838/you-vidiot-7-...n-you-thought/

bubbles76 · 01-03-22, 08:33 PM

Then Joni-O needs to make the list. It's a verb

KarenJo · 01-03-22, 09:01 PM

The OED needs to update and add a second usage. Though I do often spend more time in a day previewing DVDs than doing them, on whole I don't think I qualify as a couch potato viewer. Or undiscriminating, despite the size of my collection.

From the Time article: 'The Oxford English Dictionary dates the word vidiot back to 1949 and defines one as “a habitual, undiscriminating viewer of television or player of video games,” a cousin to the lifeless couch potato.'

And why doesn't our spell checker recognize vidiot? Oh, it's my spell checker. Just added it.

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01-03-22, 08:06 PM
susan p VF Supporter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Kansas City	This blew my mind..... Both videofit and vidiot are real words in Words with Friends.

01-03-22, 08:22 PM
Pam Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Colorado mountains, USA	I thought the word was created on VF! Here's some history of the word "vidiot", that I found, dating use in the English world to 1949! https://time.com/74838/you-vidiot-7-...n-you-thought/ __________________ Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it. Ron Fletcher

01-03-22, 08:33 PM
bubbles76 VF Supporter Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New Jersey	Then Joni-O needs to make the list. It's a verb __________________ "You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are - if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It's not your fault. You just don't know how to work your hearts right yet. That's why there are dogs." - Jim Butcher, Zoo Day

01-03-22, 09:01 PM
KarenJo VF Supporter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Northern California Foothills	The OED needs to update and add a second usage. Though I do often spend more time in a day previewing DVDs than doing them, on whole I don't think I qualify as a couch potato viewer. Or undiscriminating, despite the size of my collection. From the Time article: 'The Oxford English Dictionary dates the word vidiot back to 1949 and defines one as “a habitual, undiscriminating viewer of television or player of video games,” a cousin to the lifeless couch potato.' And why doesn't our spell checker recognize vidiot? Oh, it's my spell checker. Just added it. __________________ Karen Jo I now have a doctor's order to never again do push ups (yippee!)