Online Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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river of news n. Radio Userland helped jump-start RSS in that format’s early days, and it still warrants a look today. Though it requires a download, Radio Userland works as an online reader, listing all feed items in one column, in reverse chronological order. This format, which has come to be called the “river of news” look, is akin to the inbox interface of most email apps. [English Media Online] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2006)

SaaS n. Intacct—the name is short for “Internet accounting”—exemplifies a broad business trend on the Web often called SaaS—short for “software as a service” and pronounced “sass.” [English Online Technology Acronym] [full cite] (Jun. 9, 2008)

screwgle v. Suggested addition of a new word into the language of the web. Screwgle, as in “My wife caught me leaving a strip club on Google Street View, I got screwgled!” [English Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2007)

sexting n. Van Hollen said that online sexual predators often use chat rooms to obtain and trade images. He also noted that predators also use cell phones for explicit chat, a practice known as sexting. [English Crime & Prisons Online Sex & Sexuality Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 12, 2008)

shmup n. This shoot ’em up, or “shmup” as such games are known in gamer’s parlance, features more than 200 enemies, 57 different weapons and a unique graphics style. [English Entertainment Online Technology Slang] [full cite] (May. 2, 2006)

shogging n. The company has coined the term “Shogging” to refer to the process of shopping and blogging. [English Business Online Factitious New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jun. 29, 2006)

siblog n. So what’s left to drive? Try to find a 1994 Geo Metro XFi, recommended Wired (and so did a commenter on Wheels, our siblog). [English Media Online] [full cite] (Jun. 11, 2008)

slagosphere n. In a recent interview about his controversy-baiting wife Ayelet Waldman, novelist Michael Chabon condemned “the slagosphere”—that merciless virtual coliseum in which anyone with a DSL can publicly eviscerate any celebrity, political figure or, heck, private citizen who happens to offend. [English Online Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 4, 2006)

sleeveface n. Sleeveface is the art of “one or more persons obscurings or augmenting any part of the body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.” [English Arts & Literature Music Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jan. 15, 2008)

smeet v. The first time members of the leading online virtual world got together for the face-to-face reality of the Second Life Community Convention, it was a lexicographer’s dream. “People actually coined a new phrase: ‘Nice to “smeet” you.’ S-M-E-E-T,” says Randal Moss, executive director of the conference. “Smeet,” Moss explains, is short for “second meeting,” the first one having happened on the Second Life grid. [English Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 25, 2007)

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