These are new words or phrases that have caught my eye. My definition of a new word is one which is not in the Macquarie Dictionary online.
Some words seem to have more significance than others in terms of reflecting changes in the Australian culture, so I will give each word a Zeitgeist rating (ZG) within a range of 1-10.
If you disagree with the rating that I give, please argue your case in the comment field provided.
I would love you to contact me if you have made any new word discoveries of your own.
The latest in the slowly growing set of words formed with the ending -veillance is dataveillance, the monitoring of digital data relating to someone’s activities online.
ZG: 5
A piece of jargon, perhaps, although since we are now all so involved with activities online, we perhaps will become more familiar with it.
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