معجم مصطلحات الكلمات الجديدة

[وحيد فرج]

New coined words

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mancation n. A vacation in which the participants are all men. Also

: man-cation. [Blend of man and vacation.]
—mancationer n.
—mancationing p

p.
Example Citation:
When fellow travelers saw Larry Meadows and his buddies palling around on vacation, they assumed they all worked together. Wrong. Or that they were all friends from the same town. Wrong. Or that they were in some special club. Wrong again.
"I'd tell them we're on a 'mancation,'" Meadows said jokingly. "That kind of clicked with people."
A lot of people.
Without realizing it, Meadows and his friends — Bill, Paul and Chris, who have taken a yearly vacation together, just the boys, since 2002 — have been part of a growing trend in the travel industry toward getaways for guys. Meadows, who lives in Tampa, Fla., likes to think he and his fellow mancationers coined the term (they registered the site www.mancation.com to share their vacation stories and help others plan their own mancations), which is now a buzzword in the travel business.
—Greg Morago, "Boys Gone Wild," The Hartford Courant, December 31, 2006
Posted on January 19, 2007
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social media n. Onlines sites and technologies that enable people to contribute or share content, discuss, rate, or categorize content, or connect or communicate with each other.
—social-media adj.
Example Citation:
When Mena Trott and her husband, Ben, started producing software in 2001, they were 23 years old and unemployed casualties of the dotcom crash in San Francisco.
The couple decided to take a few months out. Mena was a recent convert to the then-new blogging (online diary) craze, so she asked Ben to help her produce a better version of her web log — the aptly named Dollarshort.
Little more than five years later, the Trotts have become Silicon Valley celebrities, the couple at the centre of the ''social media'' phenomenon of which blogging is a part.
—Paul Durman, "Couple make the big time in blogs," Sunday Times, January 7, 2007
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
One of the most influential linguistic urban legends of all time: the idea that Eskimos have countless words for "snow." In truth, Inuit and Yupik language families (there is no one "Eskimo language") don't have many more terms for snow than other languages do.
—Nathan Bierma, American journalist, Chicago Tribune, January 17, 2007

collabulary n. A common vocabulary with which Web users categorize the data they find online, particularly one created in collaboration with classification experts to ensure relevance and consistency. [Blend of collaborative and vocabulary]
Example Citation:
People have a tendency to affect tagging-based search negatively in two primary ways: by not using enough or relevant tags; and by tagging the same links using vastly different tag words. For example, a link about "horses" may be tagged with "equine," "saddles," "mares," "foals," etc. In fact, it should be tagged as simply "horses". To overcome these problems, PreFound.com crawls the web sites that users are indicating they would like to share, automatically adds tags based on site content, and then runs the site through a process much like a "reverse thesaurus" which reduces large numbers of synonyms into single "collabulary" words.
—"Tackling the Tag-Based Search Dilemma, PreFound.com Social Search Engine Introduces Automatic Tagging," Business Wire, September 18, 2006

male answer syndrome n. The tendency for some men to answer a question even when they don't know the answer. Also: MAS.
Example Citation:
Try an experiment. Ask a male friend a question, something completely outside his sphere of expertise.
Will you get an answer? Chances are, you will. The male friend is exhibiting behavior known as Male Answer Syndrome. It's the compulsion by many individuals (mostly men, but sometimes women) to answer questions readily, regardless of knowledge.
—Jean Godden, "Males Have the Answers, Even if They Don't," The Seattle Times, February 9, 1992
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giggle test (GIG.ul test) n. A symbolic test used to determine whether something is legitimate or serious.
Example Citation:
Another lawyer, who handles a high volume of welfare cases, put it this way: "there used to be a 'giggle test' — the court could be counted on to reject arguments made by government lawyers that were laughable — but now members of the panel will pick up on those arguments."
—Daniel Wise, "First Department's Image Shifts," New York Law Journal, April 24, 2001

opportunivore n. A person who eats whatever he or she can find, particularly food that has been discarded.
Example Citation:
Forget buying brie from local producers. Or stocking up on strictly organic oranges. Or even insisting on cruelty-free tofu chops instead of four-legged fry-ups. The latest wave of ethical eaters are opting out of the grocery-food chain entirely — and into dumpster dining.
Called freegans, urban foragers, opportunivores, these social activists are so repulsed by the food waste in developed countries — and the larger politics of the food industry — they rifle through trash cans to salvage "corporate leftovers" for their meals.
—Jenn Gearey, "Consumed with less: not buying any food," The Globe and Mail, January 13, 2007

fauxtography (foh.TAWG.ruh.fee) n. The practice of creating faked photographs, usually by manipulating the images with software.
—fauxtographer n.
Example Citation:
The illusionists of fauxtography have created a powerful tool for propaganda. Faking a photo is a simple and effective means of propaganda, and an image once implanted is all but impossible to remove. Complex ballistic trajectories are boring and will always be trumped by a picture of a dead child. My roommate had no clue who al-Durrah was, but he certainly remembered "that kid and his dad who got shot."


digital dieting n. Photographers' euphemism for the digital retouching techniques used to make subjects look younger and thinner.
—digital diet n.
Example Citation:
It's a Hewlett-Packard (insert spying joke here) digital camera that offers a special "artistic effect" called "slimming," which basically takes a digital image and sort of smushes it, creating a narrowing effect. That's right. Now body dysmorphia isn't just in your head! You can actually execute your self-distortion in your own photos — just like magazine art directors do to the models who give us our own warped senses of what the female body is supposed to look like to begin with! Yay!
The best part about the Hewlett-Packard advertisement is, of course, the women they've decided require a digital diet. Two models are shown. Unsurprisingly, both are beautiful and utterly healthy looking. But not beautiful enough. Nosirree. They need to be slimmed!
—Rebecca Traister, "Digital dieting," Salon.com, September 19, 2006
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voluntourism n. Travel that also includes volunteer work. Also: volun-tourism. [Blend of volunteer and tourism, or a play on volunteerism.]
—voluntourist n.
—voluntour n.
Example Citation:
Doctors used to tell travellers to "peel it, boil it, cook it or forget it."
But that's just not realistic anymore given that a growing number of tourists — especially aging Baby Boomers and students — are keen to explore some of the darkest corners of the world, and maybe even work there for a while on "voluntourism" projects.
—Jay S. Keystone, "Battling the bugs, "The Toronto Star, January 6, 2007
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brand slut n. A consumer with no loyalty to a particular brand.
Example Citation:
5 Brand Sluts: Yeah, we're talkin' to you. Trendster and JWT Exec VP Marian Salzman defines "brand sluts" as consumers who flit from one brand to the next with no sense of fidelity to any of them. While the connotation is negative, brand sluts are in fact savvy consumers.
—Rich Thomaselli, "Trends to watch in 2007," Advertising Age, December 18, 2006
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silver industry n. The business sector that focuses on products and services for seniors.
Example Citation:
"As parents age, families deal with a series of complicated decisions that affect the elder as well as adult children," says Deputy, of Bristol, Ind. "Trying to agree on the best course of action brings up all sorts of family dynamics, and suddenly people are dealing with their emotions, not reason. Too often what happens next is that people begin to lose sight of the primary objective, which is the safety and dignity of the older relative."
That experience helps her in her work today as an elder-care mediator — one of the latest of what Harry Moody, director of academic affairs for AARP, calls "silver industries," services developed to respond to the special needs of an aging population.
—Korky Vann, "Mediators resolve disputes over care," Hartford Courant, August 16, 2006
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techno-creep n. The gradual encroachment of technology into every aspect of society. Also: technocreep, techno creep.
Example Citation:
Technology is also infringing on our home lives, with Moggridge citing a "frightening" trend in South Korea to have sophisticated workstations fitted in the bedrooms of children as young as eight. But he doubts such techno-creep will be pandemic — after all, in the US, he says, "most homework is done in the car".
—Peta Tomlinson, "Watch this space," South China Morning Post, November 24, 2006
to say and they were demanding their parents get in touch. When the children came on the line I found they spoke clear and fluent Irish in a new and modern urban dialect. They told me how they spoke the language all the time, as did all their friends. They loved it, and they were outraged that I could suggest it was dead. These were the children of the new Gaelscoileanna, and were burdened with none of the sense of inferiority that had been instilled in the rest of us. ... They were reared on Irish versions of SpongeBob SquarePants and Scooby-Doo on TG4. They've invented words for Xbox and hip-hop, for Jackass and blog. They were fluent in Irish text-speak and had moulded the ancient pronunciations and syntax in accordance with the latest styles of Buffy-speak and Londonstani slang. I realised it was they I should have turned to for help on the streets. These are the new generation.
—Manchلn Magan, Irish writer and broadcaster, The Irish Times, January 5, 2007
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American academic and critic, The Weekly Standard, January 4,
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pumping party n. An illegal gathering at which the participants are injected with large quantities of silicone by an unlicensed cosmetic surgeon.
Example Citation:
An appeals court has overturned the third-degree murder conviction of a man who prosecutors claimed injected a woman with a fatal dose of silicone at a private "pumping party." ... Vera Lawrence, 53, ... received the injections to enhance her buttocks at an apartment in March 2001.
—"Conviction in silicone poisoning death voided," St. Petersburg Times, April 28, 2006
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so September 10 adj. Representing attitudes or ideas that were significant or applicable prior to but not after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Example Citation:
Apparently, programmes like The Apprentice and Big Brother expose people to members of different ethnicities and that can only be a good thing.
And, actually, Phillips is right. Because if anything, watching Big Brother for any length of time has shown us that there are more rational reasons to really, really hate these people than simply the colour of their skin. After all, pigmentation prejudice is so September 10, darling.
—Ian O'Doherty, "Bob Geldof attacked by common sense," Irish Independent, June 30, 2005
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glass cliff n. A senior job or important project, particularly one given to a woman, with a high risk of failure (cf. glass ceiling).
Example Citation:
The Glass Cliff has been demonstrated in a number of fields, including FTSE 100 companies, British politics, law and policing, and the research suggests that precarious Glass Cliff positions may be particularly prevalent in male-dominated fields such as ship-ping, logistics and transport.
This may be because women in these industries are often isolated and lack the networks of their male colleagues.
One female executive described what happened to her: "I was placed on a project to manage that was the 'project from hell'. Was I set up for failure? I do not know."
—"Balancing on the edge of the Glass Cliff," Lloyd's List, September 21, 2006
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