I learned two new words from students today. The Relational Communication course that I am assisting had an activity in which each student wrote down three traits that attract them to another person. They were told to write their own sex and the preferred sex of their partners. (Most students would just write female or male, rather than female interested in male.) Most responses included such things as "nice body, nice smile, sense of humor, intelligence, athleticism," and so on. A few students were more creative and indicated attraction to religious faith, a lack of neuroses, mental stability in general, and specific political views. From this data, I learned two new words. I here offer the original spelling, but my take on the implied definitions:
1. Conservitivity - the frequent consumption of Fox News and fanaticism for Glenn Beck, coupled with GOP party-line voting and affection for a certain Sheriff (aside: this state is incredibly conservative, with a high population of politically active Mormons)
2. Sportiveness - (1) the frequent consumption of ESPN and fanaticism for treadmills (aside: it is too hot here to be sportive outside);
(2) also, the tendency to be sexually adventurous (etymology: the adjective sportive is derived from the real adjective sporty, which may occasionally be used as slang for sexually adventurous tendencies).
