WAPped out? - 11/25/04 02:29 PM
I was trying to look up a word jheem used (and only now realized that I got so sidetracked I never got to it!) and found these bemusing words:
WAPathy
noun. The general lack of interest in WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), the technology that enables Web pages to be viewed on the latest generation of cell phones.
Example Citation:
"Most people have barely heard of WAP phones — the mobiles which use a cut-down version of the Internet — yet already there's a new word to get used to: WAPathy. Instead of connecting to the latest technology, the early signs are that people are switching off."
—Patrick Collinson, "Phones fail to ring up sales," The Guardian, July 8, 2000
and
WAPlash
n. The backlash against accessing the Internet using a WAP-enabled cell phone or other wireless device. Also: WAP lash or WAP-lash.
Example Citation:
This week we look at one of the snappiest words to talk its way into the language of the new economy. In a cutting edge dictionary it comes between Walmartian (someone who buys everything from jump leads to jewellery at Wal-Mart) and warpig (a very ugly person). The word which is keeping the wireless industry awake at night is WAPlash.
—"Mobile Net on track despite consumer WAPlash," South China Morning Post, April 3, 2002
Notes:
What I want to know is, who's the genius who thought people would actually want to view Internet data on a teensy cell phone screen? And who are the near-geniuses who didn't immediately slap that person upside the head for suggesting such a silly thing?
Both are from
http://www.wordspy.com/, where I was also amused by the word lexpionage.
WAPathy
noun. The general lack of interest in WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), the technology that enables Web pages to be viewed on the latest generation of cell phones.
Example Citation:
"Most people have barely heard of WAP phones — the mobiles which use a cut-down version of the Internet — yet already there's a new word to get used to: WAPathy. Instead of connecting to the latest technology, the early signs are that people are switching off."
—Patrick Collinson, "Phones fail to ring up sales," The Guardian, July 8, 2000
and
WAPlash
n. The backlash against accessing the Internet using a WAP-enabled cell phone or other wireless device. Also: WAP lash or WAP-lash.
Example Citation:
This week we look at one of the snappiest words to talk its way into the language of the new economy. In a cutting edge dictionary it comes between Walmartian (someone who buys everything from jump leads to jewellery at Wal-Mart) and warpig (a very ugly person). The word which is keeping the wireless industry awake at night is WAPlash.
—"Mobile Net on track despite consumer WAPlash," South China Morning Post, April 3, 2002
Notes:
What I want to know is, who's the genius who thought people would actually want to view Internet data on a teensy cell phone screen? And who are the near-geniuses who didn't immediately slap that person upside the head for suggesting such a silly thing?
Both are from
http://www.wordspy.com/, where I was also amused by the word lexpionage.
polysemy. Reckon I'd better LIU now: (From Gurunet)