Spreading a word
I realized that I have not yet blogged about the extreme usefulness of a word L-M and I coined several months back.

The word is "helpy", a backformation from the also-coined "helpiness", which was created by analogy to "truthiness"; the analogy should make the meaning fairly clear.

Something which is helpy has the outward appearances of being helpful, while not actually being at all helpful and usually being actively detrimental. Ever baked cookies with an enthusiastic three-year-old, and noticed that the more the three-year-old did to "help" the more work it meant for you? The three-year-old was being "helpy".

L-M's sister has already started using the word. This word actually serves a useful purpose -- spread the joy. I'd love to see it become popular.

I'm leaving this post unlocked just so there's a record on the off chance it DOES take off.