Coping with Coinages - Facultad De Humanidades

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DOWNSIZING Euphemism for firing workers (also known as RIFing for Reduction in Force). Appeared during 1990s but became common during Great Recession of 2000. Now applied to almost anything that can be measured or valued. Cars, houses, and grocery products are now being downsized .
MALL-RATS Pre-teens or young teens who practically live at the mall and spend hours walking around in small packs, only rarely buying anything.
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COPING WITH COINAGES: NEW ARRIVALS
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NEOLOGISMS Another name for coinag
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Onomatopoeia: blahs, yahoo, boo-hoo
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ling-bling ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
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BUZZ (BUZZ WORD) Buzz, meaning "a b
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GOTH Goth originated in England dur
Page 13 and 14: RE-GIFT Re-gift was coined on The S
Page 15 and 16: logging cutting-edge flame war (f
Page 17 and 18: CUTTING-EDGE This adjective was cre
Page 19 and 20: GAMER Rosie and her brother are gam
Page 21 and 22: LANDLINE Hey, call me on my landlin
Page 23 and 24: MICROPUBLISHING Micropublishing is
Page 25 and 26: dirty tricks Thursday global villa
Page 27 and 28: GLOBAL VILLAGE oMarshall McLuhan po
Page 29 and 30: RED STATES VS. BLUE STATES States d
Page 31 and 32: URBAN VILLAGE Came out of the Briti
Page 33 and 34: CARB LOADING This refers to ingesti
Page 35 and 36: GLUTES Glutes are short for the glu
Page 37 and 38: SIX-PACK This refers to the hard ri
Page 39 and 40: CLING-FACTOR This refers to the ten
Page 41 and 42: CYBERSTALKER The cyberstalker uses
Page 43 and 44: GENDER-INCLUSIVE Gender-inclusive l
Page 45 and 46: ROAD RAGE oMotorist hostility often
Page 47 and 48: YADA-YADA This is another coinage f
Page 49 and 50: DO-RAG A do-rag (also spelled doo-r
Page 51 and 52: HOODIE A hooded sweatshirt with lar
Page 53 and 54: TENCEL Brand name for a manmade fib
Page 55 and 56: FRANKENFOOD Genetically-modified fo
Page 57 and 58: TANGELO A tangelo is a cross betwee
Page 59 and 60: io-waste Black Friday bottom feed
Page 61 and 62: BLACK FRIDAY The day after Thanksgi
Page 63: CARBON FOOTPRINT A measure of our i
Page 67 and 68: oWe have seen that coinages are ver
Page 69 and 70: SOURCES ON COINAGES Dent, Susie. (2
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