http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=55 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=55&cpage=1#comment-111537 rbeard Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:51:19 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=55#comment-111537 There is no reason not to use this word as the name of your band. Most groups take words and phrases that are in use from the langauge for their names: Genesis, Journey, Culture Club, Chicago, Spice Girls, Nirvana, U2. Boomerangst is just a fascinating word for containing "boom", "boomer", "boomerang", and "angst". I know of no other words that pack so many other words inside it. There is no reason not to use this word as the name of your band. Most groups take words and phrases that are in use from the langauge for their names: Genesis, Journey, Culture Club, Chicago, Spice Girls, Nirvana, U2. Boomerangst is just a fascinating word for containing “boom”, “boomer”, “boomerang”, and “angst”. I know of no other words that pack so many other words inside it.

]]> http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=55&cpage=1#comment-111265 Doug Shelton Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:17:35 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=55#comment-111265 Thank you for the information. I was born in 1954 and am a physician in a 5 piece band that plays classic rock and jazz. We are all baby-boomers with three teachers, an attorney and myself. We have struggled with a name for the band and I thought of Boomerangst as a name because much of our music deals with the angst of love, loss, lust, war, money, etc. Now I find the word has already been used from an economic viewpoint. I can't help but say I am disappointed, of course for our band but also because I had felt the word would be better used to express "angst" in terms of feelings, dealing with conflict and the human condition rather than a financial, material struggle. I also liked the dual meaning of "boomerang" but I had thought of it more interms of the boomer angst of finding their identity in the world and now as our lives come to their end, the boomer angst again returning in finding what our lives really meant and how we are to deal with this. Also on another level, this is a boomerang in the world has now gone back to almost a Viet Nam atmosphere and we are again faced with these feelings. I don't think I am going to pursue using the name though as the former meaning seems to have taken hold. Thank you for the information. I was born in 1954 and am a physician in a 5 piece band that plays classic rock and jazz. We are all baby-boomers with three teachers, an attorney and myself. We have struggled with a name for the band and I thought of Boomerangst as a name because much of our music deals with the angst of love, loss, lust, war, money, etc. Now I find the word has already been used from an economic viewpoint. I can’t help but say I am disappointed, of course for our band but also because I had felt the word would be better used to express “angst” in terms of feelings, dealing with conflict and the human condition rather than a financial, material struggle. I also liked the dual meaning of “boomerang” but I had thought of it more interms of the boomer angst of finding their identity in the world and now as our lives come to their end, the boomer angst again returning in finding what our lives really meant and how we are to deal with this. Also on another level, this is a boomerang in the world has now gone back to almost a Viet Nam atmosphere and we are again faced with these feelings. I don’t think I am going to pursue using the name though as the former meaning seems to have taken hold.

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