This is the term for any software or hardware that becomes embedded in a system despite the fact that it is past its use-by-date or, in some cases, that it was never any good at all. Once accepted it could take time and money to replace.
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This is not the flower that grows in the bush. This is the verb to wildflower, which is to be in a relationship in which there are no rules, no commitment, no expectations.
ZG: 4
A fashion with the young. For the moment!
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This is the belief that AI development will lead to the extinction of humanity, or at the very least, to some terrible catastrophe for humanity, because AI will rapidly become smarter than us.
ZG: 8
There are probably more AI doomerists in Australia than anywhere else in the world where people seem to be more focused on the positives.
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These are not exactly new but they are emerging as an ongoing topic for discussion in the race to gather up rare minerals.
ZG: 2
Briefly in the news but possibly something for the future.
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I find the concept of the regenerative egg slightly alarming — I imagine putting eggs in the fridge and opening the door to find chickens leaping out.
ZG: 6
A term accepted in the marketplace now.
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Remember when calculators became popular. The education authorities and parents feared that children would lose the ability to do maths in their heads because they had become reliant on calculators. This was true.
ZG: 9
This possible effect of AI will be a topic for discussion for some time to come.
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There are various characteristics in a man that are green flags for any woman seeking a relationship with him. If a bloke ticks all these boxes he is a green flag man.
ZG: 5
There should be a thesaurus category for all the terms that have been used over the centuries by women to designate a desirable man, and men to designate a desirable woman.
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The Cambridge Dictionary has recently included funga as a headword with the meaning ‘all the fungi that grow in a particular area or a particular period in time’.
ZG: 3
Sadly only a few fungi enthusiasts will be taking on this word.
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If only Christian de Neuvillette had had AI he wouldn’t have had to ask Cyrano de Bergerac to write his love letters to Roxane for him, and life wouldn’t have got complicated.
ZG: 4
In the world of dating apps this is no doubt well known.
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Are all -gates post Watergate to some extent manufactured? Self-conscious -gates? This one certainly is, but it is now embedded in Australian politics.
ZG: 5
Politically alive for a brief period but now overtaken by events.
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A serious campaign to maximise your good looks can now be described as looksmaxxing. Whatever you wish to max out can be combined with -maxxing, a new productive suffix.
ZG: 4
Popular with Gen Z but a mystery to everyone else.
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This is the latest rule devised by the governing body of Australian Rules football. It requires a free kick to be given against the last player to touch the ball before it crosses the boundary line between the two 50 metre arcs.
ZG: 5
One of these arcane rules that matters tremendously to AFL followers.
Hotly discussed in AFL circles at the moment.
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Smart glasses is the general term for eyewear that has a computer built into the frames. Audio glasses or hearingglasses have wearable audio tech — speakers and microphones for the reception of phone calls and music.
ZG: 6
It is the use of smart glasses to invade other people’s privacy that has everyone worried.
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Apparently the Millennials and Gen X who spend their lives on digital devices and suffer digital burnout as a consequence find relief in analog activities of the sort that their grandmothers did as day-to-day routine.
ZG: 7
Charming to see the younger generation taking up quilting and crocheting.
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It begins with the realisation that a lot of images and text on social media are generated by AI. So if you see something you don’t believe, you say ‘That’s AI’ meaning it is false because it is generated by AI.
ZG: 6
Everything AI is significant at the moment but this colloquialism is limited to the younger generation. At the moment.
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The BEC stands for Business Email Compromise. This scam started in businesses where an employee would get an email, ostensibly from the CEO, asking them to transfer money to an account given in the email.
ZG: 5
Sadly some people have had their lives turned upside down by this scam.
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This is the name given to metal spherical objects from space, the latest of which have washed up on a beach in Queensland.
ZG: 4
The rubbish that we are generating in space is coming closer to home.
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We all understand the value of physical fitness. Now we have to consider that we should attend to our cognitive fitness.
ZG: 4
This is an item of professional jargon that is filtering through to the mainstream.
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This is not just weariness caused by constant scrolling but the depression, ennui and anxiety that the scroller is left with as a result of what has become a kind of addiction.
ZG: 4
Recognition of this as a form of addiction has brought more serious attention to treatment for it.
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The bush doof has been with us for some time and is well covered in the dictionary. It is ‘an outdoor dance party, usually held in a remote location, and featuring electronic music. The bush doof is new.
ZG: 7
The bush doof is amazingly popular. I like the progression from bush doof to book doof.
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