Lenguas: las no-palabras favoritas en inglés | Favourite non-words
Merriam-Webster Inc. (la editora del Merriam-Webster Dictionary, el diccionario de referencia para el inglés estadounidense) le pidió a quienes visitaban su página web que enviasen su palabra favorita (que no estuviera en el diccionario). Estas son las diez "no-palabras" que han sido enviadas más veces:
1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous
2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends
5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway
6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."
7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number
8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy
9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed
10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms (el antónimo sería vocabularian: a person who make up new words)
No sería de extrañar que alguna acabase haciendo fortuna.
¿Hay algún traductor temerario que se atreva a buscar los equivalentes de estas "no-palabras" en español?
(Vía Boing Boing)
1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous
2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends
5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway
6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."
7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number
8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy
9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed
10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms (el antónimo sería vocabularian: a person who make up new words)
No sería de extrañar que alguna acabase haciendo fortuna.
¿Hay algún traductor temerario que se atreva a buscar los equivalentes de estas "no-palabras" en español?
(Vía Boing Boing)
2 Comments:
Excelente palabras gracias! jajajaja
By Anónimo, at jueves, mayo 08, 2008 8:57:00 p. m.
1. ginormous mamarruo en Venezuela
By Emilio Rojas, at martes, junio 28, 2016 10:26:00 a. m.
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