Michael Greenwell

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. – Aldous Huxley

Things That There Isn’t a Word for – One

3 Comments Posted by on April 18, 2011

Time for another sporadic little series.

The first in this series of things that there isn’t a word for is a relatively modern concept.

It is the strange looking away thing that everyone does to be polite when someone else is entering a password into a computer or a PIN into an ATM.

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3 Responses to Things That There Isn’t a Word for – One

  1. Philip April 18, 2011 at 19:15

    Good point. I suggest digiverting, from digit and avert, as in “Could you digivert your eyes, please, this is a personal number.”

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  2. Michael Greenwell April 19, 2011 at 07:03

    Good idea but digi makes me think of fingers somehow

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  3. Philip April 19, 2011 at 22:19

    Well, if it leads to potential identity thieves sticking their fingers into their eyes, so much the better, I should have thought.

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