Fitzpatrices
n. (thanks, Jamison)
- More than one Fitzpatrick.
n. A new word created by improper analogy with the grammatical structure of other words. For example, burgle was created by misinterpreting the -ar in burglar as "one who." —
n. (thanks, Jamison)
n. (from analogy with common synergy; from Oligopoly Watch via Terry Frazier)
The Time-Warner proxy rebels led by Carl Icahn have announced they want the company split even further, into four new firms, namely Time-Warner Cable, motion pictures and TV networks, magazine publishing, and AOL. As with Viacom, the idea is to “release” a lot of pent-up value, the very opposite of synergy, namely antergy. —Oligopoly Watch
n.
All these artifacts share the quality that Philip K. Dick, in his 1962 novel “The Man in the High Castle,” calls historicity, which is “when a thing has history in it.” In the book, a dealer in antiquities holds up two identical Zippo lighters, one of which supposedly belonged to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and says: “One has historicity, a hell of a lot of it. As much as any object has ever had. And one has nothing. Can you feel it? … You can’t. You can’t tell which is which. There’s no ‘mystical plasmic presence,’ no ‘aura’ around it.”
Back in the real world, in 1996, Sotheby’s sold a humidor that had belonged to John F. Kennedy for $574,500. It had historicity. —James Gleick, “Keeping It Real,” New York Times Magazine
n. (from Steve Jobs’ description of the OS X Aqua interface in his MacWorld Expo 2000 keynote)
v. (from analogy with -ant words like servant, pleasant)
n. (from portmanteau and -eur from analogy with, e.g., saboteur)
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