Word Report #1

posted on 2020-06-02

Word Report will be a series of posts in which I document uncommon terms I'm using. Unless stated otherwise, they are of my own invention.

Topia: (based on Utopia/Dystopia) a society in which a particular vision is fully realized, without specifying if that society is good or bad.
Ancapolite: "Polite anarcho-capitalism"; a society within an anarcho-capitalist framework where social and contractual norms and expectations are maintained by mutual social good-will, pressure, and other existing cultural systems.
Seme: a piece of meaning/semantics. Compared to the related word sememe, a seme doesn't have to be smallest/atomic.
"&adj": a suffix to mean "and adjacent". For example, "4chan&adj" means 4chan and adjacent websites/cultures, such as 2chan, 8chan, some reddits, weeb culture, the alt-right, etc.
Postⁿmodern: a cultural movement designated by the term "modern" prefixed by "post-" n times. post⁰modernism is modernism, post¹modernism is post-modernism, post²modernism is post-post-modernism, post-even-modernism is postⁿmodernism where n is an even number, etc.
I've been using the word "be" to indicate being while leaving tense explicitely unspecified. "I be here" does not specify whether I am, was, or will be here. Can be interpreted as related to the meme phrase "It do be like that".
Similarly, I've been using the form "I have cat" to indicate my ownership of either a singular cat or plurality of cats, explicitely leaving number unspecified (not "I have a cat" nor "I have cats").

posted on 2020-06-02