Funktionary: A Cheeky Collection of Contemporary Words

Title

Funktionary: A Cheeky Collection of Contemporary Words

Author

Ruth Wajnryb

Type

Non-Fiction

Call Number

423.31 WAJ

The English language is evolving extremely quickly on the internet. These days, cyber-speak is how netizens communicate in Singapore.

Ruth Wajnryb has compiled common contemporary phrases and words used in the blogosphere known collectively as blogabulary. Ignore them and you may be perceived as an anachronistic dinosaur.

Consider these words: cognitariat (knowledge workers) and digerati (the new literate – those who are skilled in electronic or digital literacy).

Grammarians may baulk at such creative use of the language but ignore these words at your own risk.

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Recommended by Norlin Naim, NLB librarian.