Posts tagged with “lingo”
- noun
- An optical character reader and universal language translator for text.
- Origin
- Derived from legere (to read) and Automat (machine).
- Source
- Changing Planes
- noun
- A universal language translator for speech.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘translate’ and Automat (machine).
- Source
- Changing Planes
- noun
- A word, which when spoken inveigles its way into the mind of the speaker and manifests itself in his flesh.
- Origin
- Named for the parasitic manifestation caused by the word.
- Source
- Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia
- noun
- A hardware/software device that synthesises speech.
- Origin
- Formed from vox (voice) and the suffix ‘-ware’.
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun
- The shared language of the League of All Worlds.
- Origin
- Corruption of ‘galactic’.
- Source
- City of Illusions
- noun
- The shared constructed language of the Culture.
- Origin
- Possibly derived from maireannach (long-lived).
- Source
- Consider Phlebas
- noun
- The language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc.
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- noun
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- A youth dialect.
- A teenager.
- Origin
- -надцать, the Russian equivalent of ‘-teen’.
- Source
- A Clockwork Orange
- noun
- A multilingual street dialect.
- Source
- Blade Runner