Be thankful that we're not prickly or sniffy about the English Language. It's untidy, it's oblivious to boundaries, can take root in even the thinnest of soils, totally adaptive to any environment, and generally seems, well, inexhaustible. Simply more fertile.

Do we realise it? Probably not, or if we did, we've forgotten and it needs something to remind us. Like me after reading a dull tract on social media, but one that was fairly well stuffed with new word plums, and they made me remember how ever evolving it is.

Here are those plums. Whether they'll all survive to a healthy old age is any one's guess. All of them inspired by the relatively new discipline of knowledge management (itself, a neologism, and an indefinable one for that), and I'd be stumped if I was asked to say what any of the actually mean. But, it's their vigour and freshness I like, so here's the roll of honour:

• Wiki gardeners
• Idea engines
• Crowdsourcing
• Prediction markets
• Answer market places
• Persistent environment
• Mind share
• Thought leadership
• Sentiment analysis, and what must be a close cousin, Intent analysis

Ten years time and they're mainstream, possibly; ten years time, and they're all but forgotten, probably. I'm simply enjoying the pleasure of witnessing a rudely healthy language generate new terms, new words, new slogans without stopping.