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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5956 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 10 20 April 2013 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Because language nerds, such as myself, are often awake, contemplating linguistic matters, when all the world of normal humanity is decently sleeping, I just found an interesting article on recent words that the Internet has given to the English language.
I'm assuming this happens in other languages, too, but I hope there is variation out there and all the new technological terms aren't in English. These should be familiar to anyone online, and I know you are, because you are reading this. Anyway, here's the article: Recent English neologisms My favorite part was the etymology of the word "geek"! "Geek" arrived in English from Low German, in which a geck denoted a crazy person; in travelling circuses, the geek show traditionally involved a performer biting off the heads of live chickens. By 1952, the sense of a freakishly adept technology enthusiast had appeared in science fiction maestro Robert Heinlein's short story "The Year of the Jackpot" ("the poor geek!" being the phrase) – and by the 1980s it had become a common label for socially awkward children obsessed with new technological devices Does anyone know Internet neologisms that are not in English? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4421 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 2 of 10 20 April 2013 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I always liked the ironic use of 'Muka buku' in Malay to talk about Facebook. But there are plenty more
that I know in English. In fact, the Walrus, a Canadian literary magazine, had a bit on it a few years back. I can't seem to dig it up anywhere though. Words like 'bootylicious' or 'Twittersphere' are commonplace nowadays online, especially on blogs/Tumblr and Twitter. Even old words have been recycled with new meanings, like 'troll' for instance, which is both a noun and a verb meaning antagonization/to antagonize (sparing no expense of vulgarity), that even Stephen Fry used in this recent interview: http://www.upworthy.com/this-man-gives-advice-to-his-15-year -old-self-the-kid-should-listen? c=ufb1 Other common phrases are: 'to creep' to view someone's Facebook profile (with the intent of uncovering personal information, whether private or not) 'to stalk' a bit less colloquial than 10 years ago, but essentially, to creep a profile habitually 'duckface' / 'duckfacing' what girls do in Facebook profile photos 'selfie' / 'to take a selfie' a photo of yourself, often as habitual a method as duckfacing 'to photobomb' / 'photobombing' when you ruin a couple/group photo by appearing in the background unbeknownst to the subjects and ruining the sincerity of the moment by making faces, or doing something ridiculous '[to] facepalm' usually typed alone, meaning that someone is so embarrassed of something they're putting their palm into their face 'Google' / 'Youtube' / 'Facebook' to search a particular website, often followed by a clause (i.e. 'Google 'headache fever stomache ache' for me, I need to know what my symptoms mean!') 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6586 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 10 20 April 2013 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have to admit that in my family to google has become a synonym of to search, even offline. Like "where is ... ?" - "google it in the kitchen" (погугли на кухне).
as for something specific to Russian, we have a colloquial word for saving/sending something, usually to a memory stick or an email address (or a site like sendspace) - скинуть/скидывать (perf/imperf), literally to throw off. the most common usage is "throw this to me, please" - again, we use this one jokingly for giving something offline. some other examples are "i need to throw this to my memory stick first" or "just throw it to yourself" (instead of having to use the public computer). oh and the terms for downloading are commonly non-English - скачать in Russian and спампаваць in Belarusian both mean to pump. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 10 20 April 2013 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Then what is the difference between загрузить and скачать?
Googlen, in Dutch, is an official word in the Van Dale and means "to look up, to google". Edited by tarvos on 20 April 2013 at 4:02pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sizen Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4328 days ago 165 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Catalan, Spanish, Japanese, Ukrainian, German | Message 5 of 10 20 April 2013 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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In the same vein, the Japanese use ググる (guguru) and ヤフる (yafuru) to mean "to google search" and "to
yahoo search" respectively. Which I've always found hilarious because they conjugate like any other verb, therefore making it possible to say ridiculous things like ググらせられなかった (guguraserarenakatta) meaning "(I) was not forced to google search" and ググればググるほど (gugureba guguruhodo) "the more (you) google the more..." There's also a lot of sound association that is used in Japanese Internet slang which produces words like 今 北産業 (ima kita sangyou) which would translate character for character as "now, north, industry" but really means "I just found this thread (I just came). Could someone explain to me what's going on in about 3 lines worth of text" seeing as it comes from 今来た三行 (ima kita sangyou: now, came, 3 lines). Abbreviation is fairly common, too, like うp (up) for upload and あざす (azasu from Arigatou goZAimaSU) for thank you. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4421 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 6 of 10 20 April 2013 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
This is my new favourite one! That's great! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5521 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 10 20 April 2013 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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My favorite is clavardage, which is the official term for "online chat" in French-speaking Quebec. It's a combination of clavier (keyboard) and bavarder (to talk aimlessly and without direction). Unfortunately, this word is not widely used in France.
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4522 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 8 of 10 21 April 2013 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I like the German verb 'surfen', in the sense of Internet surf, but usually sounds to me when I hear it used like someone is about to hit a few waves. It must have entered the German language when the phrase surfing the web was still popular in English, which I haven't heard anyone say in years so there is an interesting dissonance when I hear it in German.
I guess now days you might end up with a German verb like "onlinen" which would give you excellent expressions like "Ich online das Internet". I have also seen verbs like downloaden, chatten, frenden, and I am sure there are many others. I think a lot of these originally come from advertising copy, that tends to borrow English words and generates a Denglish equivalent, which can then potentially enter everyday conversation. Edited by patrickwilken on 21 April 2013 at 1:31am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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