What is the Japanese word for "esquivalience"?

[Taro Toporific]

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town 2005-08-22
...the recently published second edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary contains a made-up word that starts with the letter "e" an independent investigator set himself the task of sifting through NOAD's thirty-one hundred and twenty-eight "e" entries in search of the phony.....

[Cubed]

I heard that fake words in dictionaries was a copyright thing, if that's what this articles about ... yes it s, that not really news.

The New Yorker is not really rapier-wit, up-to-the-minute journalism or comment.

[Charles]

The New Yorker is not really rapier-wit, up-to-the-minute journalism or comment.

You don't actually read The New Yorker, obviously.

Just to give one recent example, Sy Hersh broke the Abu Graib torture scandal in The New Yorker.

[Cubed]

The New Yorker is not really rapier-wit, up-to-the-minute journalism or comment.

You don't actually read The New Yorker, obviously.

You're quite right, I don't. OTOH, I made a point about the subject matter not the medium - the article recently published in the New Yorker was news last year in it's rival publications.

I see the New Yorker is published by that highbrow emporium called Conde Nast, whose other titles include Glamour Magazine, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Self, Modern Bride, Bride and Lucky. I don't read them either as they're hardly relevant.

But if you're interested in horoscopes, makeup, wedding dresses, celebrity gossip, boys ...

[Charles]

The New Yorker is not really rapier-wit, up-to-the-minute journalism or comment.

You don't actually read The New Yorker, obviously.

You're quite right, I don't. OTOH, I made a point about the subject matter not the medium - the article recently published in the New Yorker was news last year in it's rival publications.

I guess there's no point in arguing the merits of a literary magazine with someone so illiterate they dosn't know how to use the possessive "its" correctly.

I see the New Yorker is published by that highbrow emporium called Conde Nast, whose other titles include Glamour Magazine, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Self, Modern Bride, Bride and Lucky. I don't read them either as they're hardly relevant.

But if you're interested in horoscopes, makeup, wedding dresses, celebrity gossip, boys ...

You omitted Vanity Fair, which is also widely known for its journalism.

[james]

I guess there's no point in arguing the merits of a literary magazine with someone so illiterate they dosn't know how to use the possessive "its" correctly.

shouldn't that be "they doesn't know"? :P

[Greji]

I guess there's no point in arguing the merits of a literary magazine with someone so illiterate they dosn't know how to use the possessive "its" correctly.

shouldn't that be "they doesn't know"? :P

James, dosn't you no nuttin? "Dosn't" is a very important contraction of "Dos" and "Nut-toggle". It is critical for describing typographical errors in text by use of typographical errors. A very common word in New York publications!

[Taro Toporific]

[Charles]

It is probably better to make an edit error changing "doesn't" to "don't" than to be illiterate and not know the difference between "its" and "it's."

But the point being, "everyone else" wrote trivial stories about how there are fake words in the dictionary. The New Yorker actually researched the story, consulted lexicologists and editors, and passed the final story through their world-famous fact checking department.

[Cubed]

I guess there's no point in arguing the merits of a literary magazine with someone so illiterate they dosn't know how to use the possessive "its" correctly.

I love it when someone criticizes other peoples' grammar but can't get it right themselves.

You just pissed on your own bonfire. Vanity Fair? Yes, that's an incisive publication.

Next to Teen Vogue.

their world-famous fact checking department.

I can see their World Famous Fact Checking Department in action right now:

Editor: "Who is Tom Cruise dating right now?"
World Renowned Journalist: "I'll get straight on it ... "

[Charles]

You just pissed on your own bonfire. Vanity Fair? Yes, that's an incisive publication.

It is obvious you don't actually read Vanity Fair. Gore Vidal has been publishing some of the most incisive essays about the Iraq war in Vanity Fair.

It could be argued that the only two writers in the US that have consistently got it right about Iraq were The New Yorker's Sy Hersh and Vanity Fair's Gore Vidal.

[Greji]

You just pissed on your own bonfire. Vanity Fair? Yes, that's an incisive publication.

It is obvious you don't actually read Vanity Fair. Gore Vidal has been publishing some of the most incisive essays about the Iraq war in Vanity Fair.

It could be argued that the only two writers in the US that have consistently got it right about Iraq were The New Yorker's Sy Hersh and Vanity Fair's Gore Vidal.

I think your paraphrasing that statement with "It could be argued", saves me from interjecting a post here!

[Cubed]

You just pissed on your own bonfire. Vanity Fair? Yes, that's an incisive publication.

It is obvious you don't actually read Vanity Fair. Gore Vidal has been publishing some of the most incisive essays about the Iraq war in Vanity Fair.

It could be argued that the only two writers in the US that have consistently got it right about Iraq were The New Yorker's Sy Hersh and Vanity Fair's Gore Vidal.

Britney Spears got it right too, by saying "I think we should all just trust our president and do whatever he says".

She probably said that in one of their other magazines - Teen Vogue perhaps.

[Charles]

Britney Spears got it right too, by saying "I think we should all just trust our president and do whatever he says".

[kurohinge1]

... The point of this post is about whether any of you can remember fake words you have found in Japanese dictionaries ...

Reminds me of the uni student (very cheap!) game where you make up the meaning for a word no one knows from the dictionary, selected each round by the next person.

The entries are all read out, including the real one, and then everyone votes on which they think is the real one. You win a point for everyone who votes for your fake entry and a point if you pick the real one.

Good for trips to places without electricity.

[Taro Toporific]

... game where you make up the meaning for a word no one knows from the dictionary, ....You win a point for everyone who votes for your fake entry and a point if you pick the real one.

Back when I other gaijin with me at work, we used to do that game with words from the JIS dictionary: 500yen per wrong vote.

I cleaned up on the bets in this game with a bonehead document from Mitsubishi Materials was full of the term "star-pipy" --- a plastic 'star extrusion" was the intended.
The JIS Dictionary J-to-E was wrong once again <sigh> with "pipy" listed as a proper English term. Our further investigations found that KENKYUSHA's listing for English "extrusion" had engrish "pipy" in katakana.

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"The stem was all pipy and slimy".
-- Keats.
[1913 Webster] pipy Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.