With the world working from home amid the coronavirus lockdown, businesses have found several virtual ways to connect with their employees and clients. Webinars, webcasts, and web meetings have become the ‘it’ thing RN. But looks like business tycoon Anand Mahindra is done with these virtual seminars and want to ban ‘webinar’.
In a tweet, he asked his virtual family if it was possible to petition for banishing this word from the dictionary.
If I get one more invitation to a ‘webinar’ I might have a serious meltdown. Is it possible to petition for banishing this word from the dictionary even though it was a relatively recent entrant?? pic.twitter.com/2iBQtqoUa6
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) May 28, 2020
And surprisingly, a lot of people agreed to his idea:
Seriously #COVID19Pandemic has caused #WebinarEndemic! Google Hangout to Zoom to Microsoft Teams, life has become dizzy. Plus if you have board based in US it is morning 830 onwards and evening 830 pm onwards. Won't be surprised if business of Psychiatrist booms soon!
— Cavutur Ashok kumar (@CavuturK) May 28, 2020
— Jaya Goyal (@JayaGoyal3) May 29, 2020
Seriously I am fed up with flood of webinar invitations. Somebody must check it’s utility in real term.
— Dr. Rajesh Singh (@drrajeshsingh) May 28, 2020
Soon after, expressing his annoyance at the word ‘webinar’, he came up with customized labels for people organizing/attending the virtual meeting, reported NDTV.
Giving examples of his creative tags, he suggested that a webinar organised by a gentleman from Chennai would be a ‘Webinarayan’ and one organised by a guru would be a ‘Swaminar’.
To alleviate my annoyance at the word ‘webinar’ my family suggested more customised labels… a webinar organised by a gentleman from Chennai would be a ‘Webinarayan’. A webinar by a guru would be a ‘Swaminar’. More ideas are welcome..😊 https://t.co/Rybt17mscA
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) May 28, 2020
He also asked people for more such tags and was soon flooded with hilarious comments. Here’s what people had in mind:
A webinar with four people in it would be Charminar
— Akhilesh Prabhugaonkar (@AapiE10hat) May 28, 2020
a webinar hosted by a female can be called "webinaari"
— Veg Momo 🌀 (@veg_momo) May 28, 2020
Webinar by a malayali – webi-nayar 😂
— ananda raj (@4444anand) May 28, 2020
Money got from webinar done in Kuwait is called WebiDINAAR?🤔
— ग्रामीण (@Graaamin) May 28, 2020
A webinar by an intelligent woman be "ek chatur naar"😎
— YamRaj- naam to suna hi hoga😎 (@gud_for_nuthin) May 28, 2020
Looking at current situation let’s call it “Quarantinar”
— Pawan Singh (@raibahadurpawan) May 28, 2020
How about Webi-NA!! 😓
Just can't keep up!! #NoMore #Webinar— Aparna Popat OLY (@aparnapopat) May 28, 2020
If done by a Charming person – Charm-inar
If done by a Cute person – Qutu-bminar— Ronak Morjaria (@RonakMorjaria) May 28, 2020
B-Town actor Riteish Deshmukh also came up with a tag for people who refuse to attend a webinar.
Or ‘Webafah’
— Riteish Deshmukh (@Riteishd) June 3, 2020
Loved the new vocabulary. Wonder if any of these tags actually make it to the dictionary. Which one got you cracking? Tell us.