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Esquivalience!
Oct. 21st, 2006 04:57 pmI have discovered a new word to use… ESQUIVALIENCE!
Esquivalience, esquivalience, esquivalience, esquivalience! Doesn't that sound so cool? What's even cooler is that it's a totally fake word that some dictionary publisher — New Oxford American Dictionary — inserted into the 2001 edition for copyright reasons. (To prove when someone copies their list of facts about English words. You see, because facts about the universe are not [supposed to be] covered by copyright, but there was a court case [with a phone company I've forgotten] that established a precedent for the copyright of lists of facts.) Cartographers would use this trick of placing false landmarks on maps to prove ownership of the facts about where things are located.
So you see; One of the evils of copyright is encouraging this practice of inserting deliberate falsehoods into lists of fact, and other reference materials.
Anyway, I discovered this while trying to look up for Nyah what the actual term was for the false-landmarks-on-a-map was — I'm still not certain. She thought that "esquivalience" would just be a synonym for "equivalence", or as I like to think of it: Esquivalience is esquivalent to the word equivalence. But sadly, no, it does have a real meaning, which is this:
I don't care if it's my responsibility to use words in their official ways; I'm going to continue to use "Esquivalent" in place of "Equivalent".
Speaking of skipping out on my official responsibilities; I'm kinda thinking of skipping YaoiCon tonight, and maybe just going tomorrow. I need some downtime, someday, sometime, and I've been working or traveling, or partying every moment for the last month; It seems.
Update:
Oops, I forgot to mention…
In celebration of this tradition, I will begin to randomly post completely untrue entries in my journal. (This has really been my intention all along, but I've only had time to tell the truth so far…)
Esquivalience, esquivalience, esquivalience, esquivalience! Doesn't that sound so cool? What's even cooler is that it's a totally fake word that some dictionary publisher — New Oxford American Dictionary — inserted into the 2001 edition for copyright reasons. (To prove when someone copies their list of facts about English words. You see, because facts about the universe are not [supposed to be] covered by copyright, but there was a court case [with a phone company I've forgotten] that established a precedent for the copyright of lists of facts.) Cartographers would use this trick of placing false landmarks on maps to prove ownership of the facts about where things are located.
So you see; One of the evils of copyright is encouraging this practice of inserting deliberate falsehoods into lists of fact, and other reference materials.
Anyway, I discovered this while trying to look up for Nyah what the actual term was for the false-landmarks-on-a-map was — I'm still not certain. She thought that "esquivalience" would just be a synonym for "equivalence", or as I like to think of it: Esquivalience is esquivalent to the word equivalence. But sadly, no, it does have a real meaning, which is this:
- esquivalience
- The willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities.
I don't care if it's my responsibility to use words in their official ways; I'm going to continue to use "Esquivalent" in place of "Equivalent".
Speaking of skipping out on my official responsibilities; I'm kinda thinking of skipping YaoiCon tonight, and maybe just going tomorrow. I need some downtime, someday, sometime, and I've been working or traveling, or partying every moment for the last month; It seems.
Update:
Oops, I forgot to mention…
In celebration of this tradition, I will begin to randomly post completely untrue entries in my journal. (This has really been my intention all along, but I've only had time to tell the truth so far…)
