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Interesting. Worth to be posted here I dare say :-)
BTW, chav = coatto ?
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EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01hrs 19 OCTOBER 2004
This is one of the questions Countdown's Susie Dent asks in her new book 
larpers and shroomers: the language report, published on 19 October 2004 
by Oxford University Press. 
What is it that defines the language of the moment? Is it that curious 
word CHAV, virtually unknown until this year and used to describe loutish 
young people exhibiting COUNCIL ESTATE CHIC? Or is it the creeping of 
text and chat-room language into every aspect of our written life? Are 
our favourite TV programmes and SLEBS now directing our choice of words? 
Or are they all SHTUPID? Word on the SHTREET is that this is the latest 
trend in pronunciation. Grammar, too, is on the move - or are you SO not 
liking that? 
A WORD A YEAR
However short its life, each word tells a tale about its environment. 
larpers and shroomers selects a single word born in each year of the 20th 
century and the opening years of the 21st. Each of them says something 
about the preoccupations of their time, including DEMOB in 1920, RACISM 
in 1935, BIG BROTHER in 1949, BEATNIK in 1958, MINISKIRT in 1965, TOY-BOY 
in 1981, HAVING IT LARGE in 1993, and SEXING UP for 2003. The dates of 
CHEESEBURGER or MOBILE PHONE may surprise. 
BUBBLING UNDER: WORDS OF THE MOMENT
Only a tiny percentage of words will ever achieve permanence in the 
Oxford English Dictionary, but the waiting list of words is long. Among 
those words currently jockeying for recognition are FREEGANISM (a 
philosophy which promotes getting as much of one's food as possible from 
free sources), MOVIEOKE, (like karaoke, but when you act out scenes from 
a film), and RETROSEXUALS - men who spend as little time and money as 
possible on their appearance. How many of these will make it into a 
dictionary is anybody's guess, but whatever their chances, each of them 
reflects today's trends. 
BIZ WORDS AND BUZZ WORDS
Business talk can be exciting too!Far from bland 'jargonics', how about 
some of these marvellously inventive phrases: PUTTING SKIN IN THE GAME 
(making a financial commitment to a company) and DROPPING YOUR PANTS 
(lowering the price of a product in order to close a sale). Work and play 
(or language play at least) do not always need to occupy separate spaces: 
MOOSE ON THE TABLE (an issue which everyone in a meeting knows is a 
problem but no one wants to address), and PRAWN-SANDWICH MAN (a corporate 
freeloader) are both terms in the modern business portfolio.
ARE YOU SHTUPID?
Are we less precise in our pronunciation nowadays? Have Thatcherism and 
therapy given way to FATCHERISM and FERAPY? Do you go to work on Tuesday 
or CHEWSDAY? Is LORA NORDER ('law and order') a friend of yours? Do your 
kids outrage you with their glottal stops? Susie Dent has been out on the 
street finding out if anyone still speaks the Queen's English. 
larpers and shroomers: the language report is the frontline account of 
today's English. It publishes on 19 October 2004, priced £9.99 in 
hardback. 
For more information, or to interview Countdown's Susie Dent, please 
contact Sarah Kidd on 01865 353911 or email 
sarah...@oup.com
 
English is the fastest-moving language in the world, and the largest. 
Around one third of the world's population uses English in their daily 
life and some 80% of the world's websites are in English. Tracking its 
course is a huge and important task, but Oxford University Press, with 
the largest language research programme in the world, is in prime 
position to undertake it. 
A WORD A YEAR: 1904-2004
1904 hip
1905 whizzo
1906 teddy bear
1907 egghead
1908 realpolitik
1909 tiddly-om-pom-pom
1910 sacred cow
1911 gene
1912 blues
1913 celeb
1914 cheerio
1915 civvy street
1916 U-boat
1917 tailspin
1918 ceasefire
1919 ad-lib
1920 demob
1921 pop
1922 wizard
1923 hem-line
1924 lumpenproletariat
1925 avant garde
1926 kitsch
1927 sudden death
1928 Big Apple
1929 sex
1930 drive-in
1931 Mickey Mouse 
1932 bagel 
1933 dumb down
1934 pesticide
1935 racism 
1936 spliff 
 1937 dunk 
1938 cheeseburger 
1939 Blitzkrieg
1940 Molotov cocktail 
1941 snafu 
1942 buzz 
1943 pissed off
1944 DNA 
1945 mobile phone 
1946 megabucks
1947 Wonderbra
1948 cool 
1949 Big Brother
1950 brainwashing 
1951 fast food
1952 Generation X 
1953 hippy 
1954 non-U 
1955 boogie 
1956 sexy 
1957 psychedelic
1958 beatnik 
1959 cruise missile 
1960 cyborg 
1961 awesome 
1962 bossa nova
1963 peacenik
1964 byte 
1965 miniskirt
1966 acid 
1967 love-in 
1968 It-girl 
1969 microchip
1970 hypermarket
 1971 green 
1972 Watergate
1973 F-word 
1974 punk 
1975 detox 
1976 Trekkie 
1977 naff all
1978 trainers
1979 karaoke 
1980 power dressing 
1981 toy-boy 
1982 hip-hop 
1983 beatbox 
1984 double-click 
1985 OK yah 
1986 mobile 
1987 virtual reality 
1988 gangsta 
1989 latte
1990 applet
1991 hot-desking
1992 URL
1993 have it large
1994 Botox
1995 kitten heels
1996 ghetto fabulous
1997 dot-commer
1998 text message
1999 google
2000 bling bling
2001 9/11
2002 axis of evil
2003 sex up
2004 chav
 
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 2004 chav
coatto ?
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BTW, chav = coatto ?
I'd never heard of "chav" until I read this article.
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"I got the first three wrong" he said, forthrightly.

coatto ?
mai sentito
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 sound machine, credo, quelle sui camioncini (?)
Small, portable electronic drum machine.
Joe from Massachusetts

 mai sentito
A star of the ghetto; someone (a young black man, usually) who acquired
star status in the 'hood  
through illicit acivities and intimidating behavior. 
See Elmore Leonard's recent novel _Mr Paradise_: "the kid aspires to
ghetto fabulous".
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 a prima vista" o qualcosa del genere.
Termine da anni Ottanta, anyway :)
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Io l'ho letto su Usenet, ma non credo che si usi nella real life.
It's an acronym that came fom the American military: "Situation Normal
All Fu**ed Up" . Many Americans use the term without realizing the
original meaning.  Some say "Fouled Up", but having been in the
military, I can guarantee that it's surely the former!

 Non capisco
lavaggio al anziche lavaggio del
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 lavaggio al anziche lavaggio del
Sembra che tu voglia proprio che ti lavino il cervello, con shampoo. In
realtà, se proprio volessi che mi si lavasse il cervello, direi "lavaggio
del cervello" in ogni caso; forse la forma con "al" suggerisce il
significato più letterale perché non è un'espressione fissa come "lavaggio
del cervello".
Ciao, FB
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 "gangsta" riguarda specificamente la musica rap, credo
Yes it's mainly used in rap songs, if you listen to Tupac Shakur's songs
you can find out the letter "g" is a synonym of gangster too.
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Yeah, whatever...

 mai sentito
Sě, va bene coatto come traduzione.
E' uguale a "charver", che abbiamo discusso qualche mese fa. L'ho letto
spesso su Internet, ma non l'ho mai sentito IRL.
-- 
Mary

 spesso su Internet, ma non l'ho mai sentito IRL.
They say its a fresh new word!

 > 2004 chav
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-cha2.htm
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CHAV
The press in Britain has recently been having fun mocking a group for
which pejorative descriptions have been created such as "non-educated
delinquents" and "the burgeoning peasant underclass". The subjects of
these derogatory descriptions are said to be set apart by ignorance,
fecklessness, mindless violence and bad taste.
To illustrate the last of these, critics point to their style of
dress: a love of flashy gold jewellery (hooped earrings, thick neck
chains, sovereign rings and heavy bangles, which all may be lumped
together under the term bling-bling); the wearing of white trainers
(in what is called "prison white", so clean that they look new);
clothes in fashionable brands with very prominent logos; and baseball
caps, frequently in Burberry check, a favourite style. The women, the
Daily Mail wrote recently in a characteristic burst of maidenly
distaste, "pull their shoddily dyed hair back in that ultra-tight bun
known as a ‘council-house facelift', wear skirts too short for their
mottled blue thighs, and expose too much of their distressingly flabby
midriffs".
This upsurge of popular distaste towards one group may be evidence for
a cultural shift back towards a class-ridden British society—at least
the fear that it might be so is causing some alarm in liberal circles.
Critics point to the copying of the style by many younger television
celebrities as a further dumbing-down of that medium. Much of the
attention is due to the experience of a Web site, which was intended
to be humorous but which was infiltrated by extremists who threatened
to turn it into a hate site.
From a linguistic perspective the most interesting aspect is the wide
variety of local names given to the type. Scots call them neds (often
said to be an acronym of "non-educated delinquents", but that's a folk
etymology, given credence by being mentioned as fact during a debate
in the Scottish parliament in 2003; it's actually from an abridged
form of the given name Edward, which was attached to this group in the
period of the teddy-boys, who dressed in a version of Edwardian
costume), while Liverpudlians prefer scallies (a term of long-standing
for a boisterous, disruptive or irresponsible young man); Kev is
common around London (presumably from the given name Kevin, common
among this group and popularised through the portrayal on his
television show by the comedian Harry Enfield of an idiotic teenager
with that name). Other terms recorded from various parts of the
country are janners (from Plymouth), smicks, spides, moakes and steeks
(all from Belfast), plus bazzas, scuffheads, stigs, stangers, yarcos,
and kappa slappers (girls who wear Kappa brand tracksuits, slapper
being British slang for a promiscuous or vulgar woman).
The term that has become especially widely known in recent weeks, at
least in southern England, is the one borrowed for the name of the Web
site, chav. A writer in the Independent thought it derived from the
name of the town of Chatham in Kent, where the term is best known and
probably originated. But it seems that the word is from a much older
underclass, the gypsies, many of whom have lived in that area for
generations. Chav is almost certainly from the Romany word for a
child, chavi, recorded from the middle of the nineteenth century. We
know it was being used as a term of address to an adult man a little
later in the century, but it hasn't often been recorded in print since
and its derivative chav is quite new to most people.
Other terms for the class also have Romany connections; another is
charver, Romany for prostitute. Yet another is the deeply insulting
pikey, presumably from the Kentish dialect term for gypsy that was
borrowed from turnpike, so a person who travels the roads.
Did chavi die out, only to be reinvented recently? That seems hardly
likely from the written and anecdotal evidence; what we're seeing is a
term that has been in active but inconspicuous use for the last 150
years suddenly bursting out into wider popular use in a new sense
through circumstances we don't fully understand.
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 anche un po' bullo e molesto!
Di questi tempi un pitbull non fa mai male (cioč, parliamone...).
Ciao, FB
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