Date:    Mon, 18 May 1998 09:43:16 -0700
<br>From:    Yongwei Gao <951208[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FUDAN.EDU.CN>
<br>Subject: Re: Neologisms
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<br>Dear all,
<br>
<br>Here is my questions:
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<br>1. Jonathon Green (Neologisms: New Words since 1960) 1991  s definition
<br>for "-core" is  an all-purpose rock music suffix: it includes
<br>thrashcore, grindcore and grunge core  which, of course, means nothing
<br>in this case:
<br>
<br>-core        In 1987, G.B. Jones, guitarist for the all-female low-fi
<br>pioneers Fifth Column, coined the term homocore in J.D.s, a Toronto
<br>fanzine, just as queer-punk scenes began to emerge in reaction to the
<br>prevalence of racist and homophobic skinheads within punk. (95/5/18
<br>Rolling Stone p38)           Like its nearest American rap equivalent,
<br>horrorcore#-a ungenre that includes Gravediggaz and Jeru the
<br>Damaja#-trip-hop soaks up the dread and uncertainty of the 90 s and
<br>musically conjures up a kind of paranoiascape: an aural simulation of
<br>the urban environment. (95/5/29 NYT H26)            Another category,
<br>known as Loungecore, consists of orchestral covers of rock songs from
<br>the late sixties and early seventies. (97/4 Esquire p75)
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<br>2. How to define corporatize?
<br>Example:  H.R.3460 is a bill that has already passed the subcommittee.
<br>This bill, which I call the Steal American Technology Act, would
<br>literally destroy the current Patent Office and corporatize it. (96/6/5
<br>Congressional Record H5926)
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<br>3. American Speech's new-word column--Among the New Words-- gives
<br>"cyberize" the following definition "v. n.  cause someone to be
<br>interested in the use of the computer and the information
<br>superhighway"     Its quotation is "The cyberizing of Joe and Jill
<br>Six-Pack that forces such media attention to what until recently had
<br>been the province of us propeller heads stems from a carefully
<br>orchestrated campaign by virtually the entire computer establishment."
<br>However, this word in my own quotation "These days, even hotels are
<br>flogging the notion that anything s better if you cyberize it. (Newsweek
<br>2/17/97 p46)" does not have the same meaning. Is there anyone who knows
<br>the definitions for this neologism?
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<br>Thanks for your help.
<br>
<br>Yongwei Gao
<br>Fudan University,
<br>Shanghai, China
<br>E-mail: 951208[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]fudan.edu.cn
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