#neologisms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #neologisms, aggregated by home.social.
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New (to me) term identified in the wild: 'homoglyph attack' --> a scam that hinges on the use of identical or near-identical characters from the wrong unicode block or whatever to get you to click on something.
We've been talking about this for a long time, but didn't have the term.
(I wonder if screen readers would foil this kind of attack?)
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/20/how-to-spot-avoid-homoglyph-attack-scam
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New (to me) term identified in the wild: 'homoglyph attack' --> a scam that hinges on the use of identical or near-identical characters from the wrong unicode block or whatever to get you to click on something.
We've been talking about this for a long time, but didn't have the term.
(I wonder if screen readers would foil this kind of attack?)
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/20/how-to-spot-avoid-homoglyph-attack-scam
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New (to me) term identified in the wild: 'homoglyph attack' --> a scam that hinges on the use of identical or near-identical characters from the wrong unicode block or whatever to get you to click on something.
We've been talking about this for a long time, but didn't have the term.
(I wonder if screen readers would foil this kind of attack?)
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/20/how-to-spot-avoid-homoglyph-attack-scam
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New (to me) term identified in the wild: 'homoglyph attack' --> a scam that hinges on the use of identical or near-identical characters from the wrong unicode block or whatever to get you to click on something.
We've been talking about this for a long time, but didn't have the term.
(I wonder if screen readers would foil this kind of attack?)
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/20/how-to-spot-avoid-homoglyph-attack-scam
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Best new Estonian food words announced | News https://www.byteseu.com/2115340/ #Estonia #Food #neologisms #wordsmith
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In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed the phrase "gender expansive" in the wild for the first time, as in "women and gender expansive people".
Wiktionary defines it as: "Believing in, or conforming to, notions of gender that go beyond the traditional gender binary."
Is anyone familiar with the origins of the term?
Is it in use in your circles?
If you are A) familiar with this term, and B) included in it, how do you feel about it compared to alternative phrasings?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gender-expansive
#Gender #GenderExpansive #English #Language #Neologisms #LGBTQ
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In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed the phrase "gender expansive" in the wild for the first time, as in "women and gender expansive people".
Wiktionary defines it as: "Believing in, or conforming to, notions of gender that go beyond the traditional gender binary."
Is anyone familiar with the origins of the term?
Is it in use in your circles?
If you are A) familiar with this term, and B) included in it, how do you feel about it compared to alternative phrasings?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gender-expansive
#Gender #GenderExpansive #English #Language #Neologisms #LGBTQ
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In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed the phrase "gender expansive" in the wild for the first time, as in "women and gender expansive people".
Wiktionary defines it as: "Believing in, or conforming to, notions of gender that go beyond the traditional gender binary."
Is anyone familiar with the origins of the term?
Is it in use in your circles?
If you are A) familiar with this term, and B) included in it, how do you feel about it compared to alternative phrasings?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gender-expansive
#Gender #GenderExpansive #English #Language #Neologisms #LGBTQ
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In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed the phrase "gender expansive" in the wild for the first time, as in "women and gender expansive people".
Wiktionary defines it as: "Believing in, or conforming to, notions of gender that go beyond the traditional gender binary."
Is anyone familiar with the origins of the term?
Is it in use in your circles?
If you are A) familiar with this term, and B) included in it, how do you feel about it compared to alternative phrasings?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gender-expansive
#Gender #GenderExpansive #English #Language #Neologisms #LGBTQ
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"sloppelganger" "agentrification". #neologisms #AI
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"sloppelganger" "agentrification". #neologisms #AI
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"sloppelganger" "agentrification". #neologisms #AI
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"sloppelganger" "agentrification". #neologisms #AI
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*The "My Boyfriend is AI" glossary #neologisms #AI www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...
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*The "My Boyfriend is AI" glossary #neologisms #AI www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...
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*The "My Boyfriend is AI" glossary #neologisms #AI www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...
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*Instead of protesting when people label you "slop," you should gaze in the mirror and see where the slop is dripping *I'm wondering what's "sloppy" about me personally and the answer is really kind of a LOT. #detournement #pastiche #parody #cutandpaste #hallucination #handwaving #neologisms
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*Instead of protesting when people label you "slop," you should gaze in the mirror and see where the slop is dripping *I'm wondering what's "sloppy" about me personally and the answer is really kind of a LOT. #detournement #pastiche #parody #cutandpaste #hallucination #handwaving #neologisms
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*Instead of protesting when people label you "slop," you should gaze in the mirror and see where the slop is dripping *I'm wondering what's "sloppy" about me personally and the answer is really kind of a LOT. #detournement #pastiche #parody #cutandpaste #hallucination #handwaving #neologisms
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*So, do those papers have any distinct commonalities? Scientists can "use AI" for most anything, like, say, buttering your toast or commuting to work #neologisms *Some nice counterexamples here of "lawyers using AI" #slopwork www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n4dvorjnln6nbtkbvn5jynus/post/3m2dsokjhnk26
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Exp... -
*So, do those papers have any distinct commonalities? Scientists can "use AI" for most anything, like, say, buttering your toast or commuting to work #neologisms *Some nice counterexamples here of "lawyers using AI" #slopwork www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n4dvorjnln6nbtkbvn5jynus/post/3m2dsokjhnk26
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Exp... -
*So, do those papers have any distinct commonalities? Scientists can "use AI" for most anything, like, say, buttering your toast or commuting to work #neologisms *Some nice counterexamples here of "lawyers using AI" #slopwork www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n4dvorjnln6nbtkbvn5jynus/post/3m2dsokjhnk26
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New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication highlight:
➡️ The Role of #Neologisms in the #Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up #Social #Change?
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70004
Read our interview with author Greta Zella:
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-the-role-of-neologisms-in-the-climate-change-debate-canThe study bridges #linguistics and #environmental #psychology to show how new words help conceptualize climate issues and potentially trigger social tipping points.
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New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication highlight:
➡️ The Role of #Neologisms in the #Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up #Social #Change?
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70004
Read our interview with author Greta Zella:
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-the-role-of-neologisms-in-the-climate-change-debate-canThe study bridges #linguistics and #environmental #psychology to show how new words help conceptualize climate issues and potentially trigger social tipping points.
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New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication highlight:
➡️ The Role of #Neologisms in the #Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up #Social #Change?
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70004
Read our interview with author Greta Zella:
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-the-role-of-neologisms-in-the-climate-change-debate-canThe study bridges #linguistics and #environmental #psychology to show how new words help conceptualize climate issues and potentially trigger social tipping points.
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New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication highlight:
➡️ The Role of #Neologisms in the #Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up #Social #Change?
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70004
Read our interview with author Greta Zella:
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-the-role-of-neologisms-in-the-climate-change-debate-canThe study bridges #linguistics and #environmental #psychology to show how new words help conceptualize climate issues and potentially trigger social tipping points.
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Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.
It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.
https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/
#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics
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Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.
It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.
https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/
#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics
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Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.
It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.
https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/
#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics
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Ever notice how nobody 'solves' problems anymore? They solution them. And teams aren't busy—they're 'driving proactive synergy in adaptive ecosystems'.
It's not just silly—it's dangerous. Hype, jargon, and semantic inflation erode clarity, trust, and accountability in organisational life.
https://robert.winter.ink/why-hype-erodes-communication/
#SemanticInflation #OrganisationalCulture #Communication #ManagerialLanguage #Neologisms #CorporateJargon #EthicalCommunication #Leadership #Management #Ethics
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A blog post filled with words and things: https://daisybrain.medium.com/some-important-suggestions-to-fix-english-time-234034a27621 #puns #language #neology #neologisms
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A blog post filled with words and things: https://daisybrain.medium.com/some-important-suggestions-to-fix-english-time-234034a27621 #puns #language #neology #neologisms
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A blog post filled with words and things: https://daisybrain.medium.com/some-important-suggestions-to-fix-english-time-234034a27621 #puns #language #neology #neologisms
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A blog post filled with words and things: https://daisybrain.medium.com/some-important-suggestions-to-fix-english-time-234034a27621 #puns #language #neology #neologisms
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Merriam-Webster has started a slang dictionary, if you've been wondering what on earth "skibidi", "cheugy", or "high-key" means:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang#slang #language #dictionary #words #neologisms #lexicography #LanguageChange
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Merriam-Webster has started a slang dictionary, if you've been wondering what on earth "skibidi", "cheugy", or "high-key" means:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang#slang #language #dictionary #words #neologisms #lexicography #LanguageChange
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Merriam-Webster has started a slang dictionary, if you've been wondering what on earth "skibidi", "cheugy", or "high-key" means:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang#slang #language #dictionary #words #neologisms #lexicography #LanguageChange
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Merriam-Webster has started a slang dictionary, if you've been wondering what on earth "skibidi", "cheugy", or "high-key" means:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang#slang #language #dictionary #words #neologisms #lexicography #LanguageChange
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The Strunk cost fallacy
Myths have serious sticking power. This is true not just of the myths of antiquity but also of more modern and niche types, like the myths of English usage. It seems that nothing will ever stop people peeving pointlessly about split infinitives, double negatives, passive voice, singular they, &c.
One thing that makes usage myths sticky, and spready, is that when we’ve gone to the trouble of learning something, we’re often reluctant to unlearn it, even in the face of contradictory truth – especially when that knowledge gives us a pleasurable feeling of authority or expertise. Renouncing it means accepting that we’ve wasted our time, so instead we double down.
This makes it a form of sunk cost fallacy or sunk cost effect. The term is from economics but has spread to more general use. I’m about to spread it further, with a goofy twist: Doubling down on a bogus rule of language use because you’ve invested time or cognitive effort into learning it is hereby known as the Strunk cost fallacy (or Strunk cost effect).
Regrettably, there is no way to include E. B. White in the coinage without spoiling the pun, but both he and William Strunk Jr. bear some responsibility for promulgating a range of egregious misunderstandings about English grammar, usage, and ‘correctness’.
The dogmatic tone in those authors’ influential Elements of Style also fuels, among some of its devotees, intolerance of non-standardized dialects and informal varieties of English, because readers gain (or strengthen) the impression that in language use there can be only one right way. This is another fallacy, an insidious and socially toxic one.
If you find evidence that you have a mistaken belief about language use – it happens to us all – then my advice is to heed that evidence. Instead of allowing your defences to reject the possibility that you’ve wasted your time learning and maybe promoting a falsity, embrace the opportunity to revise your beliefs. Don’t fall for the Strunk cost fallacy.
In closing, here’s a related piece of snark:
Accidentally typed “Strunk and Why” and this sums up my feelings better than any tired rant I might muster
— Stan Carey (@stancarey.bsky.social) Oct 16, 2024 at 20:33
(I tried embedding an equivalent Mastodon post, but it didn’t work the way Bluesky’s did. I’m using both platforms for now.)
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A few other coinages you might like: Whom’s Law of Hypercorrection; Indo-European Jones; scary quotes; the apostrophantom; the Typographic Oath for editors.
#books #EBWhite #grammar #humour #language #neologisms #peevology #phrases #prescriptivism #TheElementsOfStyle #usage #WilliamStrunkJr
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The Strunk cost fallacy
Myths have serious sticking power. This is true not just of the myths of antiquity but also of more modern and niche types, like the myths of English usage. It seems that nothing will ever stop people peeving pointlessly about split infinitives, double negatives, passive voice, singular they, &c.
One thing that makes usage myths sticky, and spready, is that when we’ve gone to the trouble of learning something, we’re often reluctant to unlearn it, even in the face of contradictory truth – especially when that knowledge gives us a pleasurable feeling of authority or expertise. Renouncing it means accepting that we’ve wasted our time, so instead we double down.
This makes it a form of sunk cost fallacy or sunk cost effect. The term is from economics but has spread to more general use. I’m about to spread it further, with a goofy twist: Doubling down on a bogus rule of language use because you’ve invested time or cognitive effort into learning it is hereby known as the Strunk cost fallacy (or Strunk cost effect).
Regrettably, there is no way to include E. B. White in the coinage without spoiling the pun, but both he and William Strunk Jr. bear some responsibility for promulgating a range of egregious misunderstandings about English grammar, usage, and ‘correctness’.
The dogmatic tone in those authors’ influential Elements of Style also fuels, among some of its devotees, intolerance of non-standardized dialects and informal varieties of English, because readers gain (or strengthen) the impression that in language use there can be only one right way. This is another fallacy, an insidious and socially toxic one.
If you find evidence that you have a mistaken belief about language use – it happens to us all – then my advice is to heed that evidence. Instead of allowing your defences to reject the possibility that you’ve wasted your time learning and maybe promoting a falsity, embrace the opportunity to revise your beliefs. Don’t fall for the Strunk cost fallacy.
In closing, here’s a related piece of snark:
Accidentally typed “Strunk and Why” and this sums up my feelings better than any tired rant I might muster
— Stan Carey (@stancarey.bsky.social) Oct 16, 2024 at 20:33
(I tried embedding an equivalent Mastodon post, but it didn’t work the way Bluesky’s did. I’m using both platforms for now.)
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A few other coinages you might like: Whom’s Law of Hypercorrection; Indo-European Jones; scary quotes; the apostrophantom; the Typographic Oath for editors.
#books #EBWhite #grammar #humour #language #neologisms #peevology #phrases #prescriptivism #TheElementsOfStyle #usage #WilliamStrunkJr
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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#EURALEX2018 🎥 video lectures are online.
- Imputing #CEFR levels via #Wiktionary views (joint research with Robert Lew): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_wolfer_look_up_behavior
- Preference in the use of neologistic synonyms in the #German Language (talk with Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_klosa_kuckelhaus_treatment
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#EURALEX2018 🎥 video lectures are online.
- Imputing #CEFR levels via #Wiktionary views (joint research with Robert Lew): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_wolfer_look_up_behavior
- Preference in the use of neologistic synonyms in the #German Language (talk with Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_klosa_kuckelhaus_treatment
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#EURALEX2018 🎥 video lectures are online.
- Imputing #CEFR levels via #Wiktionary views (joint research with Robert Lew): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_wolfer_look_up_behavior
- Preference in the use of neologistic synonyms in the #German Language (talk with Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_klosa_kuckelhaus_treatment
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#EURALEX2018 🎥 video lectures are online.
- Imputing #CEFR levels via #Wiktionary views (joint research with Robert Lew): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_wolfer_look_up_behavior
- Preference in the use of neologistic synonyms in the #German Language (talk with Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus): https://videolectures.net/videos/euralex2024_cavtat_klosa_kuckelhaus_treatment
