#156778 - 02/13/08 07:20 PM
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defictionalization n.
When a product or object from a movie, book, or other fictional source is made in the real world.
—defictionalize v.
Example Citations:
Defictionalization isn't nearly so common. Not yet.
Consider the energy drink Brawndo, "the thirst mutilator." It first emerged in the blackly comic, 2006 cult film Idiocracy, directed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill.
The movie is set in a future where stupid people have outbred intelligent ones, and corporations have thoroughly dumbed down the populace. The sports drink Brawndo has completely replaced water (deemed to be inferior because it's used in toilets), even for farm irrigation. And, because Brawndo is high in electrolytes, it poisons all the plants.
Cut to last November, when Twentieth Century Fox, which released the movie, joined with Redux Beverages to bring Brawndo to the public. The bright green citrus drink, with its electrolyte, caffeine and vitamin jolt, comes with this tagline, adapted from the film's dialogue: "It's got what plants crave!"
—Patricia Hluchy. "When fiction becomes fact; Thank movies, TV, and literature for Holiday Inn, this jolt drink, and earthworm-flavoured jelly beans. Could 'defictionalization' become a new corporate strategy?," The Toronto Star, January 13, 2008
Whenever things claw their way out of books or movies and into the real world, I like to call it defictionalization. Favorite examples: when Spinal Tap went on tour in 1992, and when Buzz Rickson's started making jackets to match the one in Pattern Recognition.
—Lloyd Burchill, The object produced through suggestion (comment), Making Light, December 3, 2007
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For the past decade, "All My Children" viewers have watched Erica Kane's (Susan Lucci) cosmetic company, Enchantment, grow. Soon, those viewers will be able to smell like their favorite fictional characters.
ABC's popular soap and retail behemoth Wal-Mart are turning the fictional Enchantment perfume into a real-life specially formulated scent.
—"ABC, Wal-Mart team up to defictionalize soap scent," Zap2It, June 21, 2004
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#156856 - 02/14/08 07:12 PM
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 amative \AM-uh-tiv\, adjective:
Pertaining to or disposed to love, especially sexual love; full of love; amorous.
Theoretically, any given left-kisser should meet more right-kissers and, over an amative lifetime, or even good year in junior high, be subtly pressured to shift to the right in order to land a wet one -- or just avoid a broken nose. No?
-- Donald G. McNeil Jr., "Pucker Up, Sweetie, and Tilt Right", New York Times, February 13, 2003
In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of another nap even more often than it does to amative imaginings, Tennyson to the contrary notwithstanding.
-- "Touch of Spring Fever Makes Whole World Kin", Science News, May 23, 1931
Well, poetry has been erotic, or amative, or something of that sort -- at least a vast deal of it has -- ever since it stopped being epic.
-- Helen Deutsch, "Death, desire and translation: on the poetry of Propertius", TriQuarterly, March 22, 1993
Amative comes from Medieval Latin amativus, "capable of love," from the past participle of Latin amare, "to love."
—Related forms
am·a·tive·ly, adverb
am·a·tive·ness, noun
-Dictionary.com
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#156859 - 02/14/08 07:21 PM
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Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
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Hmmm... am I a left-kisser or a right-kisser? Never thought of that!
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#156954 - 02/15/08 08:59 PM
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hip·po·drome (HIP-uh-drohm) –noun
1. an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles.
2. (in ancient Greece and Rome) an oval track for horse races and chariot races.
[Origin: 1540–50; < L hippodromos < Gk hippódromos, equiv. to hippo- hippo- + drómos -drome]
—Related forms
hip·po·drom·ic (hip-uh-DROM-ik) adjective
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"A Hippodrome (Gr. from hippos, horse, and dromos, race, course) was a course provided by the Greeks for horse racing and chariot racing. Some present-day horse racing tracks are also called hippodromes, for example the Central Moscow Hippodrome." -wikipedia.com
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MORE -DROME WORDS:
air·drome (air-drohm) –noun
a landing field for airplanes that has extensive buildings, equipment, shelters, etc.; airport.
Also, especially British, aerodrome.
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autodrome (plural autodromes)
A circuit used for motor sports events, but not for high-speed racing.
from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autodrome"
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Derived terms
aerodrome / airdrome
hippodrome
loxodrome - If the surface is a sphere, the loxodrome is a spherical spiral.
palindrome - a word which "runs" (spells) the same in either direction
prodrome - a premonitory symptom (it runs before)
syndrome - a group of symptoms (they run together)
velodrome - a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing
from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-drome"
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Greek δρόμος dromos a course, race course, road
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#157472 - 02/18/08 12:17 AM
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Frenemy , noun,
can refer to either an enemy disguised as a friend or to a partner that is simultaneously a competitor. The latter can describe relationships involving:
People;
Politics and International Relationships; or
Commercial Relationships between Companies.
These type of relationships grow more common in times of great change and make for uneasy relations.
People
In personal relationships, the use of the term 'frenemy' has become increasingly used to describe two (or more) people who are apparently friends but are actually enemies. Such relationships may occur due to the desire (of either) to keep a close eye on the actions of their close rival (i.e. keep your friend close, keep your enemies even closer).
Alternatively, two people who are apparently enemies may actually be friends in private, with the apparently hostile relationship portrayed in order to deceive or for other forms of gain. Such an arrangement may even be used to cover up a secret relationship between the two parties.
In popular culture
Frenemies was used in the popular New Radicals song, You Get What You Give - released on April 20, 1999.
The word was further popularized when used as the title of an episode in the HBO series, Sex and the City episode #46 October 1, 2000 Frenemies.
On February 13, 2007, comedian Stephen Colbert quoted the word frenemy on his Comedy Central show The Colbert Report during his segment "The Wørd." He used the word to describe the foreign policy between the United States and China, saying that the United States is friends with China as far as the "invisible hand of the market," but enemies as the two nations are widely considered to be international rivals in military power. He then hosted an interview with New York Times editor Sheryl WuDunn, author of the book China Wakes, to discuss whether or not China is a "friend, enemy or frenemy" to the United States.
source: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Frenemy
also see the book forum of club/adventist
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#157655 - 02/18/08 09:24 PM
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Since the word 'hippodrome' and its several relatives pertaining to racecourses and 'running' I've been wondering about the word
'dromedary,'noun,
a word for the one-humped domesticated Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), used as a beast of burden in northern Africa and western Asia. Does the camel, aka 'dromedary,' run? The word sounds like drome-dairy! A running supply of milk? Or even drama-dairy! A theatrical milkhouse? Sure, I know, that is very very silly. So here, without any more verbal prankishness, is the serious etymology.
dromedary
c.1280, from O.Fr. dromadaire, from L.L. dromedarius "kind of camel," from L. dromas (gen. dromados), from Gk. dromas kamelos "running camel," from dromos "a race course," from PIE *drem-, from possible base *der- "to run, walk, step" (cf. Skt. dramati "runs, goes," Gk. dromas "running," M.H.G. tremen "to rock, shake, sway"). One-humped Arabian camels were bred and trained for riding. A charming early variant was drumbledairy (1570).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Did you see that!! Being silly was common as far back as 1570.  Unless I misunderstand those ancients and that could well be. Drumbledaiy! Goodness! More about camels: Camels are large mammals that live in dry areas. There are two types of camels: the one-humped camel (the Arabian Camel or Dromedary) and the two-humped camel (the Bactrian Camel). The Arabian camels are found in the very hot deserts of North Africa and the Middle East. Bactrian camels are found in the rocky deserts and steppes of Asia that get very hot and very cold. The Hump: The camel's hump contains fat (and NOT water). The camel can go without food and water for 3 to 4 days. It is well adapted to desert life. Anatomy: Camels are very strong mammals with wide, padded feet. They have thick leathery pads on their knees and chest. Camels have nostrils that can open and close, protecting them from the desert environment. Bushy eyebrows and two rows of long eyelashes protect their eyes from sand. Their mouth is extremely tough, allowing camels to eat thorny desert plants. Camels are over 7 feet (2 m) tall at the hump and weigh in excess of 1,600 pounds (725 kg). Diet: Camels are herbivores (plant-eaters). Most camels are domesticated and are fed by people; they eat dates, grass, wheat, and oats. Classification:Class Mammalia (mammals), Order Artiodactyla, Suborder Tylopoda, Family Camelidae, Genus Camelus, Species C. dromedarius (dromedary camel) and C. bactrianus (Bactrian camel). - source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/camel/Camelcoloring.shtml
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#157757 - 02/19/08 06:22 PM
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Well, there are bactrian camels too, besides the dromedaries. Bactrians we learned yesterday, have two humps, and live in the Asian steppes where it gets hot AND cold. Dromedaries have only one hump.
Bactrian Camel range
bactrian (BAK-tree-un), adjective
type of camel (Camelus bactrianus is a large even-toed ungulate), 1601, from L. Bactria, ancient region in what is now northwestern Afghanistan, lit. "the western province," from Persian bakhtar "the west."
used as a noun:
1. A native or inhabitant of Bactria (an ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains. Capital: Bactra.)
2. The Middle Iranian language of the Bactrians, known from scattered inscriptions and legal documents extending into the Islamic period.
A Bactrian camel in the Kyzyl Kum desert in Uzbekistan
Slower but hardier than Dromedaries, Bactrian camels have nostrils that can open and close, a double row of eyelashes, and two layers of hair, and inner down and an outer coat. They grow about 15 lbs. per year of fibers similar to cashmere wool, good for knitting.
sources: http://www.dictionary.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel
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#157765 - 02/19/08 08:08 PM
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The Bactrian language is an extinct Eastern Iranian language which was spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria, also called Tocharistan, in northern Afghanistan. Linguistically, it is classified as belonging to the Northeastern Iranian branch. It was written using the Greek alphabet with the additional letter ϸ for the Kushan sound "sh".
Bactrian was probably spoken by the local populations of Bactria when Alexander the Great invaded the area around 323 BCE, inaugurating a two-century period of Hellenistic rule by the Seleucid Empire and the then the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
Greek rule ended around 123 BCE with the invasions of the Yuezhi from the North, who adopted the Greek alphabet to write the local Bactrian language, a case which is unique among Iranian languages. Before that time, Bactrian was written in the Aramaic alphabet.
Bactrian seems to have been, together with Greek, the official language of the Kushans, descendants of the Yuezhi, and was used in their coins and inscriptions.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_language
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#157951 - 02/21/08 02:20 AM
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"Fictitious" is a word we are familiar with meaning, false, fake, made-up; but todays word has only one letter different (the first vowel).
factitious \fak-TISH-uhs\, adjective:
1. Produced artificially, in distinction from what is produced by nature.
2. Artificial; not authentic or genuine; sham.
The extreme arbitrariness of this color in relation to the "real" colors of the human figure indicates that Picasso's initial analysis turned on a redesignation of the idea of local color, displacing it from the surfaces of the natural world to the wholly factitious veneers in the world of cultural artifacts.
-- David Carrier, "Modernist art and its market", Art Journal, Winter 1998
When a significant level of distrust evolves among segments of the public, for genuine or factitious reasons, police may be seen as "them" as opposed to the "us" of the general populace.
-- Woody West, "Cops Get Caught in a Catch-22", Insight on the News, July 17, 2000
I sensed that it was time to step back, take stock, and try to untangle and think through a series of events, a great many of which I had either undergone with impassioned abandon or been asked to write about with factitious enthusiasm (a constant temptation for cultural critics who are expected to celebrate the new).
-- James Miller, Flowers in the Dustbin
Factitious comes from Latin facticius, "made by art, artificial," from the past participle of facere, "to make."
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