Tuesday, Feb. 03, 2009
2. Erdogan Is a Verb
It didn't take long for Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's headline-making walkout 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 an Erdogan (as in, "Steven Schwarzman totally Erdoganned on that lunch"). Let's hope this catches on outside Davos as well.
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