Rester branché en 2006
Monday, December 26th, 2005
Pendant une lecture attentive de “Stratégies” dans les toilettes au bureau, je suis tombé sur une chronique assez exceptionnelle sur les mots à la mode, qui m’a donné envie de partager ce petit moment de plaisir (je parle de la lecture) avec vous.
Je suis donc parti à la chasse aux nouveaux mots branchouilles en anglais à sortir lors de la prochaine fanny’s party ou à l’occasion d’un dinnog (dinner consacré aux blogs)
Voici donc en anglais la plupart du temps les termes à retenir :
- Blamestorming - sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible
- Salmon day - the experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
- Mouse potato - the on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
- Percussive maintenance - the fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
- Adminisphere - the rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the “adminisphere” are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded “administrivia” needless paperwork and processes.
- 404 - someone who’s clueless. From the world wide web error message “404 not found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located. (un peu viex, mais toujours sympa a sortir)
- Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you’ve just made a big mistake (e.g. You’ve hit ‘reply all’)
- Beer coat - the invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3 in the morning.
- Beer compass - the invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you’re too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you’ve come from.
- Bobfoc - body off baywatch, face off crimewatch.
- Breaking the seal - your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
- Mystery taxi - the taxi that arrives at your place on saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-pinter in your bed instead. (c’est arrive a tout le monde)
- Crackberry : a cause de la dependance creee par le blackberry
- Ubersexuel : c’est un metrosexuel avec un cote macho en plus
- Retrosexuel : l’homme, le vrai, l’original
- Technosexuel : le metrosexuel technophile
- Starter marriage : a short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets
- Blirting : contractionde berry fet flirting : flirter par blackberrys interposés.
A vos commentaires et merci d’enrichir ce petit glossaire.
