By Javier Bezos
Madrid, 25 Feb. New opus of the FundéuRAE section aimed at scrutinizing, recording and carefully watching the media, which are the basis of their work, in search of interesting and curious words. These voices do not follow a specific order or deal with a specific topic, and the goal is simply to collect them, without necessarily implying acceptance or censorship.
navel
A “belly button” blouse is one that exposes the navel. We also say, substantive, “a navel”, without more.
TERRAFORM
The large-scale transformation of a planet to make it Earth-like and habitable seems less and less distant. The concept comes from science fiction and is called “terraforming”. This also applies to the processes that our planet has undergone naturally, as recent information on the possible influence of Mars on them shows.
CHILD ADULT
There are adults who enjoy objects or activities that are normally assigned to children. For example, with toys. In English, the acronym “kidult” was coined, of which we can see adaptations such as “niñodulto” and “niñoadulto”.
EXTRAVEHICLES
The taikonauts of the Shenzhou-15 ship carried out their first “extravehicular” missions. Since the prefix “extra-” has among its meanings that of “outside” (as in “extraordinary” or “extrajudicial”), what is expressed is that these tasks were outside the space vehicle.
TINTINOLOGIST
There are experts on a multitude of subjects, who are very often given names ending in “-logo”. This is the case of the “tintinologist”, a specialist in the comic book character Tintin, its creator Hergé and the world around them.
RETROFUTURISMO
“Retrofuturism” in the arts and literature fantasizes about the future, but taking the past as a starting point. It can be the future as it might have been imagined decades ago or with iconography based on the past. EFE
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