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Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd  n.— «On the Internet message board at Utefans.net, the very names “Kentucky” and “Wildcats” are banned. In the always intriguing slang of the Internet, Kentucky is referred to on the site as...

Hajji mobile

Hajji mobile  n.— «Right after I sent out my letter yesterday, George got a message that Raad, our interpreter, had been stopped by gunmen while driving his Hajji mobile.» —“11-12 May” by clcperky Between Iraq & a...

exformation

exformation  n.— «A Danish writer, Tor Norretranders, invented a term for this in his book The User Illusion: exformation. Exformation is short for “explicitly discarded information,” the information you strip out of a message...

DWT

DWT  n.— «How many times have we been stopped on the road for DWT (Driving While Teen-aged)? No matter what guise it appears under, the prevalent message is that teen-agers can’t be trusted.» —“Teenagers: The discounted...

unbwogable

unbwogable  adj.— «If you were in Kenya during the elections you would certainly have discovered that Kenyan Swahili got a new word into the vocabulary: “unbwogable.” The rap song “Can you bwogo me?” by the Luo...

linglei

linglei  n.— «What happens when a booming consumer culture collides with an emerging counterculture? In China the result is linglei chic—advertising that associates products with the images of rebellion and individualism. The message is...

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