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People whose lives are precarious because they have little or no job security. Blend of "Precarious" + "proletariat".


Source: WordSpy

A word coined by the language scholar John Algeo to describe excessive reverence for the authority of a dictionary.

Source: Boston.com

Terminology extraction tools or terminology extractors can help suggest possible terms for inclusion in translation glossaries. Term extractors may automatically suggest lists of glossary candidate words and phrases based on a number of factors including repetition, uniqueness, and clustering with other words: fivefilters.org
maui-indexer (downloadable too)
TerMine (downloadable too)
AlchemyAPI keyword / terminology extraction
Terminology Extraction by Translated Labs Free Term Extractors for Download (APIs, Code, and Desktop Versions)
Wordfast (part of PlusTools 4)
KEA
topia.termextract
Araya Bilingual Term Extraction Tool Many of these tools, like:

ExtractKeyword.com or
SEOKeywordAnalysis.com
were originally developed to aid in SEO keyword identification or indexing, but they can still be helpful to translators.


Source: globalization-group.com

Read also: Terminology extraction

glossary
collection of words that have special meaning in a project

term
word that has a special meaning in a given subject field

termbase
database that contains a collection of words that have special meaning in a given subject field

terminology
collection of words that have special meaning in a given subject field

terminology management
effort to control the usage of words that have special meaning in a given subject field

terminology management system
type of translation software that enables users to efficiently collect, process, and present terminology

validation
process of checking that an entry (or a part thereof) complies with certain established requirements

Source: tcworld.info

Portmanteau of "enjoying" and "engineering" used by car-maker SEAT.


"When you get behind the wheel of a SEAT car, you don’t just go for a drive, you go for an experience. One that will capture your imagination and touch your emotions. That’s the essence of ENJOYNEERING."




Sources:
Schott's VocabSEAT

The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of a simpler time when Internet technology needed to be explained very carefully.

The move follows the AP Stylebook’s decision to change “Web site” to “website” last year, at which time we wrote, “[We] hold our collective breath for other possible updates, such as changing “e-mail” to “email.’”

Since then the recently much more progressive organization also published a set of 42guidelines and definitions for social media, though the future of “e-mail” remained very much in flux.

Today’s news, fittingly enough, was first announced on the AP Stylebook’s Twitter page, where they tweeted: “Language evolves. Today we change AP style from e-mail to email, no hyphen. Our editors will announce it at #ACES2011 today.” Look for the change to be in effect immediately in the online version of the stylebook and in…

"Tsunami" is made up from two Japanese words, "tsu", harbour and "nami", wave or waves ("tsunami" is singular and plural in that language).

Out at sea the energy of a tsunami is dispersed through a tall column of water and the wave may be small enough to be missed. As it approaches land the shoaling water increases the height of the wave and speeds it up until it powers ashore. Japanese fishermen at sea wouldn't notice a tsunami passing them until they returned home and found their harbours destroyed by a wave that seemed to come from nowhere.

How Tsunami Became an English Word After National Geographic Reported 1896 Disaster

On the evening of June 15, 1896, the northeast coast of Hondo, the main island of Japan, was struck by a great earthquake wave (tsunami), which was more destructive of life and property than any earthquake convulsion of this century in that empire.

Thus began an article in the September 1896 issue of National Geographic Mag…