2012年11月19日 星期一

GIF, omni-, omnishambles, anthology, omnibus, verbal, omnivorously


A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days, people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one. “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PAC and Eurogeddon, shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles. Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as one observer put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011, at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re free to goof off on Reddit all day.
MORE: Thanks, Sarah Palin: ‘Refudiate’ Dubbed 2010 Word of the Year


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A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days, people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one. “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PAC and Eurogeddon, shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles. Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as one observer put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011, at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re free to goof off on Reddit all day.


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/12/and-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year-is/#ixzz2CioLNUP9

And Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year Is ...
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing "words of the year"
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days, people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one. “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/12/and-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year-is/#ixzz2CiodITrq
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days, people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one. “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PAC and Eurogeddon, shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles. Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as one observer put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011, at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re free to goof off on Reddit all day.
MORE: Thanks, Sarah Palin: ‘Refudiate’ Dubbed 2010 Word of the Year


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/12/and-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year-is/#ixzz2CioW57Cg

And Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Is …

dictionary
Getty Images
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days, people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one. “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PAC and Eurogeddon, shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles. Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as one observer put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011, at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re free to goof off on Reddit all day.


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/12/and-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year-is/#ixzz2CioLNUP9

GIF

 
音節
GIF
発音
gíf
[名]《コンピュータ》静止画像を圧縮するための規格.
[Graphics Interchange Format]
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days, people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one. “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/12/and-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year-is/#ixzz2CiodITrq

'Omnivorously curious'

even years later, shortly after the Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Beckett returned to Germany, this time to conduct a grand tour of galleries and museums.


Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Susan Howe

Howe’s poems have appeared in Anthology of American Poetry, The Norton
Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and Poems for the Millennium. She
has received two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation
and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew2lxqI44va89pI0

USA Today leads with a look at how the $410 billion omnibus spending bill contains $227 million for pet projects requested by lawmakers who aren't even in Congress anymore.



The 4th volume, The World of C.Y. Tung, contains an anthology of articles, letters, reports and speeches by C.Y. Tung. It also features various interviews with C.Y. Tung's friends and counterparts by Alice King, C.Y.'s eldest daughter, in the last four years. They are themselves valuable verbal history records. Commentaries on C.Y. from around the world are included to complement the collection.


《董浩雲的世界》是《董浩雲日記》的姐妹篇,收錄董浩雲各 個時期所發表的重要論文、報告、書信及演講;長女金董建平於過去 四年,更專誠走訪她父生前友好 及部屬,記錄各人對董浩雲的印象和評價,均為寶貴的口述史料。在此基礎上,本書又選編了當時海內外各界對他的評論,冀能從不同的層面揭示出這位世界船王的 內心世界與傳奇人生。

pronunciation The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. — Jane Garmey.

an・thol・o・gy



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━━ n. 名詩選, 名文集, 詞華集.
an・thol・o・gist ━━ n. その編者.
an・thol・o・gize ━━ v. 詩文選を編む[に収録する].

anthology
noun [C]
a collection of artistic works which have a similar form or subject, often those considered to be the best:
an anthology of modern quotations/American verse
This Bob Dylan anthology includes some rare recordings of his best songs.
Compare omnibus (SEVERAL PARTS).omnibus (SEVERAL PARTS)tics
noun [C]
1 a book consisting of two or more parts that have already been published separately
Compare anthology.

2 UK a programme consisting of two or more parts that have already been broadcast separately:
the omnibus edition of a soap opera


omnibus (TRANSPORT) Show phonetics
noun [C] OLD USE
a bus
the man/woman on the Clapham omnibus UK OLD-FASHIONED
an imaginary person whose opinions or ideas are considered to be typical of those of ordinary British people:
The man on the Clapham omnibus probably knows nothing about Rwanda.


omnivore
(ŏm'nə-vôr', -vōr') pronunciation
n.
  1. An omnivorous person or animal.
  2. One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
[From New Latin Omnivora, omnivores, from neuter pl. of Latin omnivorus, omnivorous. See omnivorous.]



Omnivorous(ŏm-nĭv'ər-əs) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Eating both animal and vegetable foods.
  2. Taking in everything available, as with the mind: an omnivorous reader.
[From Latin omnivorus : omni-, omni- + -vorus, -vorous.]
omnivorously om·niv'o·rous·ly adv.
omnivorousness om·niv'o·rous·ness n.




verbal (SPOKEN) Show phonetics
adjective
spoken rather than written:
a verbal agreement/description/explanation
Airport officials received a stream of verbal abuse from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.

 (中央社倫敦13日綜合外電報導)英國媒體四分五裂,政府又失態連連,英國牛津字典(Oxford Dictionaries)今天選出的年度風雲字:「全脫序」(omnishambles),似乎很能貼切形容現今狀況。

牛津大學出版社(Oxford University Press)2012年度風雲字「全脫序」,意為:「一種完全失控的狀況,特徵是老捅漏子、頻頻誤判。」

牛津大學出版社每年都會追蹤英語如何改變,挑選最能反映年度氣氛的字,通常英式英語與美式英語各選一字。今年美式英語年度風雲字是「gif」,也就是「圖形交換格式」(Graphics Interchange Format)的縮寫。

「全脫序」這個新字出自英國諷刺喜劇「幕後危機」(The Thick of It),可用來形容政府公關疏失、倫敦奧運準備工作危機重重,各種情況都適用。

牛津大學出版社編者鄧特(Susie Dent)說,「全脫序」是因為普及性以及「語言學創造性」獲選。

她說,此字來自「羅姆尼脫序」(Romneyshambles),美國總統候選人羅姆尼(Mitt Romney)質疑倫敦主辦奧運能否成功時,英國媒體以此字嘲諷。

「全脫序」擊敗的其他入選字包括:「師奶鹹濕文學」(Mummy Porn, 美式英語寫作 "mommy porn"),形容暢銷書「格雷的50道陰影」(50 Shades)代表的文學類型,以及意指阿富汗軍警攻擊外國軍隊這種中立部隊發動的「綠對藍」(green-on-blue)軍事攻擊。

奧運相關字有多項入選,包括用作動詞的「奪牌」(medal),以及稱呼數千名奧運志工的「奧運締造者」(Games Marker),長距離跑者法拉(Mo Farah)的勝利之舞「法拉機器舞」(Mobot)也有入圍。

歐洲金融危機貢獻結合「歐洲」(Europe)與「末日決戰」(Armageddon)的「歐洲末日戰」(Eurogeddon),科技用詞則有形容看電 視同時用電腦、電話或平板的「第二螢幕觀看」(second screening),另有社群媒體上常見的「你只能活一次」(YOLO)入選。

最後一個入圍的是老字新用的貶抑詞「死老百姓」(Pleb)。據說英國內閣部長密契爾(Andrew Mitchell)曾用這個形容中下階層庶民的貶意詞辱罵警察,密契爾否認,但他後來請辭。(譯者:中央社鄭詩韻)1011113

omni-[om・ni-]
  発音記号[ɑ'mni- | ɔ'm-]

「すべて(all)」
omnicompetent
全権を有する
omniparity
万物平等.


shambles[sham・bles]
 

  • 発音記号[ʃǽmblz]

[名]
1 ((通例a 〜))((略式))混乱状態
make a shambless of ...
…をめちゃくちゃにする.
2 と場.
3 ((英方言))肉屋の売り台[店].

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