Dyslexicon

NPR this morning did a bit on the satirical Hipster Handbook, and seem to have been taken in by the faux vocabulary the book's author presents in his "hipster glossary." Apparently, enough people have called him on this that he finds it necessary to attempt to prolong the joke:

"These terms are definitely on the periphery," Lanham says. "They're underground terms. They're emerging. They're for real."

I'm either much more out of the loop than I thought, or this is bollocks, because not once in five years living in New York did I hear anything described as "deck," unless it was a box you play tapes on or the top floor of a boat. And if I ever heard anyone refer to dancing as "busting a Moby," I guarantee I'd have laughed my ass off.

But let's pretend, for a moment, that someone, somewhere did talk this way. Wouldn't the publication of this glossary be the surest guarantee that the lingo in question would be strangled in infancy?