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

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Verwaltungsvereinfachungsmassnahmen n. They’ve assigned the effort to rid their writing of fogginess a name. It is Verwaltungsvereinfachungsmassnahmen—that is, “simplified administrative procedures.” [German Germany Business Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 9, 2004)

viewser n. Now, the technology is so advanced and changing, even the industry word for a person who watches TV has changed, Heizman says. It used to be “viewer.” The new word is “viewser.” Today’s viewser doesn’t necessarily watch TV. He might click to the station’s Web site, instead. [English Entertainment Media Technology Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2006)

viewser n. The aim is no longer simply to entertain but to engage the viewer/ user (viewser?) in a multitude of life-enhancing services, such as video phone, hundreds of channels, online browsing, video on demand, PC capabilities, etc. [English Media Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2006)

viewser n. The display device for the data broadcast service would typically be the television receiver connected to a set-top box of some sort and destined for a target group of viewer/users (or as Gary Arlen, of Arlen Communications prefers, viewsers). That would put the traditional television service and the enhanced broadcast service in the same user environment, on the same platform. [English Entertainment Media Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2006)

viewser n. This organisation seems inordinately preoccupied with its visitors, or “viewsers” as it quaintly calls them. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2006)

viewser n. The idea that the “viewer” is truly participating is somewhat misleading at this stage of devlopment and some interactive film makers believe a term like “viewser” (from “viewer” and “computer user") would be more appropriate because the state of the art is more to do with combining features of both films and computer games. [English Entertainment Media Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2006)

viewshed n. She sows her speech with buzzwords of the movement—viewsheds, easements and takings. [English Environment Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 23, 2006)

viremic controller n. Traywick was diagnosed 21 years ago and has been healthy ever since, despite never having taken anti-HIV medications. Antibody tests demonstrate conclusively that he harbors the virus. But his immune system has controlled it so effectively that repeated blood assays have never shown a detectable level of the invader.…In the argot of AIDS research, Traywick is an “elite controller.” Elites are extremely rare, accounting for an estimated one-third of 1% of known HIV-positive people and numbering perhaps 2,000. They and so-called viremic controllers, healthy infected people whose immune systems keep the virus at very low, although detectable, levels in the blood without drugs, are of keen interest to AIDS researchers. [English Health Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2006)

visible minority ethnics n. The Metropolitan Police will no longer describe black people as black, as part of a new attempt to counter charges of racism in the force. Both black and Asian people will in future be referred to as “visible minority ethnics.” [English United Kingdom Police Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 26, 2004)

vog n. The island of Hawaii does have a monitoring system and a Vog index, the researchers point out, but it is measured only along the Kona Coast, not in Kau. This “volcano-smog” index—Vog is a locally coined term—also is based on aerosol visibility, not SO2. [English Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 17, 2005)

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