This week I’m on holiday and spending most of it with my parents in the wilds of Lancashire in the northwest of England. Yesterday, while waiting for a train, I heard an announcement about a different train being ‘replatformed’. This word caught my attention because it sounded quite strange, and even though I’d never heard before, I knew exactly what it meant.
Have you heard any strange new words recently?
While using wireless internet I came across the word “contactivity”: limited or no contactivity. True, I am not a native speaker of English, but I’ve read a lot. I believe it’s a new word.
Contactivity sounds like a blend of contact and connectivity, so I suppose it means being able to keep in contact and being connected (to the web).
Sounds more like a complonym: A complex word used to describe what could’ve been said in simpler terms. One example: “panarchy” for totalitarianism.
Or is that the other way around?
I get irritated by the recent popularity of the term “dialoging”. It’s a little pretentious, I think. What happened to ‘talking’ or ‘chatting’ or ‘trying to convince’.