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The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).
' The Dictionnaire offers many such ingenious coinages but they generally lack the pithiness and sprightliness that enliven such a great deal of scientific and technological terminology in English.
The coinages and cadences of the Tyndale Bible--"eat, drink, and be merry"; "a fool's paradise"; "fight the good fight"; "suffer the children"; "the salt of the earth"; "in his right mind"; "the powers that be"--and of the King James Version have for three centuries served both as psychic libretto and as percussion section for English speakers everywhere.
As is to be expected, most of the entries are scientific--that is, not particularly gemutlich ; some may be disputable, as in the cases of words like geochemistry, geomedicine, geophyte, geoscience, etc., which are described as translations from German Geochemie, Geomedizin, Geophyt, and Geowissenschaft , respectively: unless such formation is acknowledged by an author in their first manifestations in English text, these (and others) could just as well have been English coinages and many are so characterized in English dictionaries.
Capital now moves swiftly and freely around the globe--a phenomenon Friedman calls, in one of his catchier coinages, an "electronic herd."
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