12 English neologisms that you want to use
Forming / / December 19, 2019
Some new words have become so popular that they are firmly in the everyday language. Alex Shchetkin of American British Center gathered 12 capacious and funny English neologisms that have every chance to take root in the Russian language.
Alex Shchetkin
Deputy Director of Marketing at school American British Center.
English is considered to be the fastest growing language in the world. It was born in an English daily a large number of neologisms - new words, designed to succinctly and concisely indicate the changed concept or phenomenon of our lives.
Most of neologisms disappear as quickly as they came. But over time, some of the new words in the language is fixed and becomes an integral part thereof. By the way, once "Bitcoin" and "selfie" were also little known neologisms.
The compilation - words that are still little known in RuNet, but has gained popularity in the English-speaking segment of the web, and even got to offline. Ready? Ok, let's go!
1. Bedgazm
It is a pleasure that a person experiences, finally getting to the couch or bed after a hard day. Sometimes you can just fall out of reality and lie so 20-30 minutes with a deflated jeans in complete oblivion... It was the matter with you?
2. Chairdrobe
Chairdrobe - is the case when the chair becomes both hanger and cupboard, thereby losing its original function: to sit on it will not succeed.
3. Masturdating
This means going to the cinema, restaurant or café alone - a kind of goodbye with himself. You can suffer from loneliness, but you can enjoy it.
4. Afterclap
Afterclap - the man who was still clapping when everything is already settled. And because we are not only about the theater saying, right?
5. Askhole
Derived from the English ask ( «to ask") and coarse word asshole, indicating a very bad man. Hybrid proposed for naming the one who always asks tactless, unpleasant or frankly stupid questions.
6. Cellfish
This is a man who keeps talking on the mobile phone, not paying attention to what is annoying everyone else. Probably, many fall into a similar situation in the bus: all easy going, but here colorful-looking woman (although not necessarily be and a man) answers the call and starts animatedly discussing with a friend yesterday deuce younger son, which blanks do for the winter and a lot of things still. Lucky if you have headphones with you.
7. Textrovert
So you can call the person who prefers correspondence any other form of communication. Usually this sin programmers and system administrators: in most cases they prefer to send a message, rather than call or meet. Although there are exceptions. By the way, this word also has every chance to take root: it is capacious and reflects today's realities.
8. Errorist
This is a man who always makes mistakes. Everywhere. Word is very biting, bright, capacious, short, and most importantly - an international and friendly.
9. Textpectation
The very moment when we are someone wrote a message and look forward to an answer, nervously glancing at the screen mobile phone.
10. Dudevorce
We call it "divorce in the format of friendship." When the two friends no longer officially not friends. The phrase is a combination of a slang word dude ( «dude") and the word divorce ( «divorce").
11. Beerboarding
Beerboarding - scouting secrets colleagues and partners by soldering them.
12. Destinesia
It's such amnesia upon arrival at your destination. For example, you come to the kitchen and can not remember why do come here. For such a situation, in English and invented the neologism destinesia.