Benjamin Geer on 13 Oct 2000 06:02:05 -0000


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

<nettime> neologisms


My favourite recent neologisms from various mailing lists:

In English, `banksters' (modelled on `gangsters'):

    Letting the banksters "forgive" the debt means first world
    taxpayers will pay the debt and the next round of bankster loans
    to the third world will require real estate as collateral rather
    than government promises.

In French (via Spanish), `cocacolisation' (from `Coca-Cola'):

    La coalition [mexicaine] maintient des liens organiques étroits
    avec le grand capital nord-américain et, selon tous les
    pronostics, jouera un rôle bien plus important que le PAN dans le
    futur gouvernement. Cela est particulièrement dommageable pour les
    peuples indigènes et a conduit l'analyste Carlos Monsivais à
    dénoncer une prochaine « cocacolisation » de la politique.

-- 
Benjamin Geer
http://www.btinternet.com/~amisuk/bg
PGP key ID: 0x7B3F15A4
Key fingerprint: 66A7 639F 52DB FA83 59BB  7C4B C429 6D96 7B3F 15A4

#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net