Moving forward with Dave Gobel's word contest, orignial thread found here, please choose one(1) of the above terms which you think most meets Dave Gobel's prize ($100) request for word to describe future people who do not age.
Poll Ends: Dec 31 2005
ORIGINATIONS
ageless - (Originator: John Schloendorn)
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infy - (Originator: Infernity)
----1. At the core, he wants to be an infineon.
2. She managed to reverse her aging process, she's now part of the infy crowd.
rev - (Originator: Nate Barna)
revirescent (rev ih RES unt) adj. growing young or strong again
revirescence n.
This word seems to precisely describe an inverse perpetuation of getting chronologically older while getting physically younger.
The Revirescentians.
Reference:
Would you consider doing something for me? It drives me nuts that we do not have an adjective to describe someone who has many years, but has a biological age of a 26year old. We have "young" and "old" but not a word to describe a healthy, hearty and exuberant 500 year old...a word that would be attractive and desirable to "become". The closest I've been able to come is superannuated meaning 'lots of years', but it's not positive and too abstruse - not suitable for "marketing".
Would you consider doing a contest for folks to invent a cool word for this? The only thing I ask is that we capture email addresses and that MF would get a copy of the list generated...We would be willing to offer a $100 bounty to the winner - I'd suggest that the winner be derived by a multivote system if you're familiar with that method.
Then we can begin to memefect the language with the new word.
Dave Gobel
Exec Dir
Methuselah Foundation
