Scrutinizing, recording and carefully watching the media is the basis of FundéuRAE’s work. In the fortnightly scout we offer a selection of voices that have caught our attention because they are new, curious, recovered…
The inclusion in this list does not imply that its use is validated or rejected, since the purpose is only to reflect the evolution of the language.
⇒ Tourism based on going from town to town for several days instead of staying in one place is booming. For this activity we are using the verb populate and the corresponding noun town.
⇒ In a basketball game each team consists of five players. similar to tripletwhich is a ‘set of three people, animals or things’, we have quintetwhich is also seen in other contexts, such as when talking about a quintet of businessmen o a quintet of goals.
⇒ Not every change in a person’s appearance is achieved with plastic surgery. The rhinomodelation It can be considered a kind of non-surgical rhinoplasty in which the aim is to give shape, through implants, to the nose (hence the presence of the element rino-).
⇒ The English protest movement of weavers and other craftsmen against machines in the 19th century is known as playfulness. This concept returns in the context of new technologies to refer to the rejection of changes that, according to some opinions, degrade the quality of work and products. the people are playedas an English adaptation ludditeo playerwhich is the direct correlate of playfulness. Updating this idea to the current situation is also called neoludism.
⇒ The neuroarquitectura combines architecture and neuroscience, and starts from the principle that the environment in which we live (homes, workplaces, schools, etc.) influences the brain and affects well-being, emotions, behavior, memory… It is In other words, not only the merely functional or aesthetic aspects count.
⇒ In Mexico, it is not uncommon for a soccer team to be said to have cruzazuled if it lost a game when it seemed that it had won it, because that is what happened to Cruz Azul on one occasion. today the verb cruzazulear It has spread to other areas as a metaphor, often with offensive intent, as it is usually perceived as such.
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➤ Anterior: egoico, manga artist, fornication…