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The neologism topolect has been coined as a more literal translation of fangyan in order to avoid the connotations of the term " dialect " ( which in its normal English usage suggests mutually intelligible varieties of a single language ), and to make a clearer distinction between " major varieties " ( separate languages, in Western terminology ) and " minor varieties " ( dialects of a single language ).
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Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “ mail ”, however “ chain-mail ” has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.
Through extensive advertising, the neologism " moxie " has entered popular American usage with the meaning " courage, daring, and energy ," as in " This guy's got moxie!
* neologism: The use of a word or term that has recently been created, or has been in use for a short time.
A neologism (; ) is defined as a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language.
In the introduction to the book Gorkhas Imagined ( 2009 ) Prem Poddar makes an important point about the Gorkhas in Nepal versus the Gorkhas in India: " the word ‘ Gorkha ’ ( or the neologism ‘ Gorkhaness ’) as a self-descriptive term ... has gained currency as a marker of difference for Nepalis living in India as opposed to their brethren and sistren in Nepal.
Geisert and Futrell maintain that the neologism has always had a kinship with the Enlightenment, an era which celebrated science, free inquiry, and a spirit of skepticism ; they have endorsed the use of super as the antonym to bright.
In Argentina, all neologism that has reached a minimum level of acceptance is considered a Lunfardo term.
Although the word is a neologism, it quickly became part of the local vocabulary, and has even been used in official council documents, for example when giving notice of temporary footpath closures.
Ulster Scots, the local dialect of Lowland Scots, which has, since the 1980s, also been called ' Ullans ', a portmanteau neologism popularised by the physician, amateur historian and politician Dr Ian Adamson, merging Ulster and Lallans-the Scots for Lowlands-but also an acronym for " Ulster-Scots language in literature and native speech ".
In visual media such as film and television, exposition that is delivered against a diverting backdrop of sex or nudity has been called " sexposition " since that neologism was coined in 2011 to describe the practice as used in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.
The local dialect of Finnish, Torne Valley Finnish or, with a neologism, Meänkieli, has today been acknowledged as a minority language in Sweden.
Minoritarianism is a neologism for a political structure or process in which a minority segment of a population has a certain degree of primacy in that entity's decision making.
* Facebook ambassador, a colloquial term that has become a social networking idiom and neologism popularized by Globcal International in an open citizen and public diplomacy program that includes many types of ambassadors that are involved in social enterprise development and social mission driven organizations dedicated to themes like the environment, humanitarian aid, fair-trade and the eradication of poverty.
As a compromise, " Hangul " was selected, but this has led to the use of the neologism " Hangul language " ( ハングル語 ) to refer to the Korean language ; although it's technically incorrect since hangul itself is a writing system, not a language.
A blend of the words " veep " and " sweepstakes ", the neologism has been found in print as far back as 1952.
The term has also been applied as a neologism to describe the tendency of a younger generation to manifest the undesirable traits of a previous generation, despite the repudiation of these traits when they were young.
It comes from the fusion of aberri ( a ) (" fatherland ", a neologism created by Sabino Arana ) with the suffix -( t ) zale ( someone who loves, is a friend of, has affection towards, or dedicates him-or herself to something ).
The approving neologism ' bootylicious ' has entered the mainstream English language as part of the ' crossover ' of African-American popular culture, fashion and sexual politics.
Writing for the Irish Independent, Irish journalist Kevin Myers has criticised the craic spelling as being " pseudo-Gaelic " and a " bogus neologism ".
This neologism has not gained widespread acceptance in the mathematical community.
It has in at least one case been transferred into standard English as a neologism: a bovver boy is a thug, a " boy " who likes " bother " ( fights ).
" Anti-art " has been referred to as a " paradoxical neologism ," in that its ostensible opposition to art has been observed concurring with staples of twentieth century art or " modern art ," in particular art movements that have self-consciously sought to transgress traditions or institutions.
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This is not a neologism, as Luvic had been used in the early 20th century to mean the Anatolian language group, or languages identified as Luvian by the Hittite texts.
Since the 1980s Ullans, a portmanteau neologism popularized by the physician, amateur historian and politician Ian Adamson, merging Ulster and Lallans — the Scots for Lowlands — but also an acronym for “ Ulster-Scots language in literature and native speech ” and Ulstèr-Scotch, the preferred revivalist parlance, have also been used.
* It has also been popularized as the " monkeysphere ," a neologism coined by David Wong in an article, What is the Monkeysphere ?, which introduces this concept in a humorous manner.
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The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.
Generation Flux is a neologism and psychographic ( not demographic ) designation coined by Fast Company for American employees who need to make several changes in career throughout their working lives due to the chaotic nature of the job market following the 2008 – 2012 global financial crisis.
It is a neologism coined in the late 1960s as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, and refers to history ( reinterpreted as " his story ") written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.
Open content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify.
During the 2007-2012 global financial crisis in the United States, the neologism " pessimism porn " was coined to describe the alleged eschatological and survivalist thrill some people derive from predicting, reading and fantasizing about the collapse of civil society through the destruction of the world's economic system.
Often attributed to a neologism coined by Isaac Bonewits in 1974, Patricia ' Iolana traces the early use of the term to 1976 crediting both Bonewits and Valerie Saiving in its initial use.
Populitism is a neologism coined by Nelson, a portmanteau combining " populism " with " elite.
The resulting neologism is called a back-formation, a term coined by James Murray in 1889.
" It may be a neologism coined by Henry Schoolcraft, who was a borrower of words and pieces of words from many languages ( including Arabic, Greek, Latin, and various American Indian dialects ).
In 1843, the name was changed to Alpena, a pseudo-Native American word — a neologism coined by Henry Schoolcraft, meaning something like " a good partridge country.
Five years after the first English translation of Le temps des tribus, writer Ethan Watters claims to have coined the same neologism in a New York Times Magazine article.
The English word " organism " is a neologism coined in the 17th century, probably formed from the verb to organize.
The origin of the Paracelsian invented word spagyrici from the Greek: Spao, to tear open, + ageiro, to collect, is a neologism coined by Paracelsus to define his spagyric type of medical-orientated alchemy ; the origins of iatrochemistry no less, being first advanced by the Swiss physician.
The blogger Atrios coined the neologism " Friedman Unit " to refer to this unit of time in relation to Iraq, noting its use as a supposedly critical window of opportunity.
Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, " east ".
* Tui ( intellectual ), a neologism coined by Bertolt Brecht to describe a type of intellectual, as depicted in his play Turandot
The term " conurbation " was coined as a neologism in 1915 by Patrick Geddes in his book Cities In Evolution.
Bioneer ( root: " biological pioneer ") is a neologism coined by founder Kenny Ausubel.
Hoplophobia is a pejorative neologism originally coined to describe an " irrational aversion to weapons, as opposed to justified apprehension about those who may wield them.
He asserted that, in his book, Dershowitz attributes an Orwellian neologism to George Orwell, when actually Peters coined it in her book in an allusion to Orwell, in which she mentioned him by name: her neologism " turnspeak " alluded to Orwell's famous Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Innumeracy is a neologism coined by an analogue with illiteracy.
Giclée ( or ), is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers.
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