Selective Apathy on Urban Dictionary and how about an Online Mauritian Creole Dictionary

Very busy with writing my MSC thesis which the boss wants a first draft of by Monday but I thought I’d treat myself and blog.

Those of you who have read the section about Selective Apathy will know loosely what I am getting at; although sometimes I think I need to express myself a bit better regarding that. Anyways last week I decided why not add an entry concerning Selective Apathy to Urban Dictionary? For those not familiar with urban dictionary, it is an web-based dictionary tool where users upload their slang words and phrases although there are legitimate entries as well. It is a hugely popular site which also sells merchandise such as “your definition on a mug”, it used to be T-shirts but I think they pulled that after numerous entries in the dictionary of T-shirt being “Something UrbanDictionary.com is selling now to increase popularity amonst teenagers who see their friends wearing the said shirts.”

Anyway I love Urban Dictionary, its funny, creative and allows anybody to express themselves in their own way. So I submitted a definition of Selective Apathy which was then approved by the moderators and published on the site this week. While I take Selective Apathy as a concept a bit too seriously sometime Urban Dictionary usually stays true to its roots and words or phrases usually have to be cool or slang which is sometimes degrading to be approved and added, so I had to dirty my definition a bit and here it is, Selective Apathy:

Selectively choosing things to be Apathetic towards.
In other terms this can be interpreted as choosing selectively things to care about.
Through Selective Apathy, you do not feel Apathy towards everything but only at certain things so that you can say fuck it to some things and don't care about them but still care about others.
To employ empathy or care only when needed.
This can be to dismiss negative things and care or be empathetic about positive ones or dismiss negative things and care about personal things or similar combinations.

"Dude, you've lost your job, have no education and you smell."
"Selective Apathy man, who cares about that shit. I'm gutted that my team lost the league though. That's something to care about."
or
"Dude you just lost your leg".
"Don't care about that, it enabled me to eventually find a cure for that flesh eating disease and help others - Selective Apathy."

So what do you think?

I also had an idea some years back about a Mauritian version. This stemmed from the fact that I was twelve when I moved to Scotland and missed all the cool new words you learn as a teenager in Mauritius and whenever I go back I’m like what does that mean. I ran this idea by my cousin who said it wouldn’t work and I really did not know how to go about creating a dictionary site anyway. Recently with the interest of standardising Mauritian Creole, I thought how about an online Mauritian Creole dictionary, where you can submit your word, how you would spell it but if it means the same as another word spelt similarly, they would get grouped together and then you can have votes on a standard spelling?