New fortnightly review by the FundéuRAE of words and expressions that have appeared in the media that have caught our attention, because they are unusual, new, curious or have some point of interest.
We clarify, as usual, that the inclusion of these voices and expressions does not necessarily imply acceptance or censorship.
⇒ Some economists predict a very prolonged or even permanent crisis, and for it the name of permacrisis. Although it has been created in English, in Spanish it can also work as an acronym for permanente y crisis.
⇒ The President of Colombia has presented Pope Francis with a ballpoint pen, an object that was created with the signing of the 2016 Peace Agreement and consists of a bullet-shaped pen. It is considered a symbol of the transition from weapons to education and culture.
⇒ In tourism you can not only enjoy the monuments and cultural activities, but also the local gastronomy, both in the markets and in the restaurants. For this, the adjective is used. gastrocultural.
⇒ The mataleón It is a criminal technique to rob a person that consists of approaching him from behind and encircling his neck with his arm, so that he loses consciousness.
⇒ With the possibility of entering the human brain through increasingly sophisticated technologies (the neurotechnologies), both to extract and introduce information, the establishment of specific rights is proposed, such as the preservation of identity and protection against manipulation (the neuroderechos).
⇒ The licuachela is a michelada which is served in a blender glass, although the ingredients are sometimes changed or not limited to beer, the lemon juice, the chili, sauce and salt.
⇒ It is suspected that after the cyber attack on a hospital in Spain there is an organization specializing in the data exfiltration, that is, the dissemination of information that has been obtained from a computer network without authorization. Although ex- is usually associated with the meaning of ‘that was and has ceased to be’, it can also have the meaning, as in this case, of ‘out’ o ‘further there’.
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