Lukewarm Dictionary: Rayhornisms & Other New Words
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fan·tab·u·lous
adjective
Rayhornism #1
A 'complex contraction' used to describe something that is both fantastic and
fabulous. This term is often used when trying to avoid saying more
words than necessary.
It has been a long day and your boss has just instructed everyone that
they can
leave early in order to properly celebrate the anniversary of the
first recorded bungee jump east of the Rockies. You say
"Fantabulous!" and quickly sign out before he realizes what he has
done and changes his mind.
own·er·rif·ic
adjective
Rayhornism #3
The term applied to those changes made by the project owner reflecting a blatant & total disregard for all other parties concerned (i.e., architects, engineers, contractors). These often grand changes are usually made on a whim at the last possible moment and are usually the direct result of he/she/them having more money than they know what to do with.
Note: Even though the owner(s) will usually have the
required funds to cover these changes, they will often be budgeted
out of the project (again at the last moment) leaving the design
team with the project pretty much as it was before this whole
debacle. This process is then known as something that I will
refrain from defining here (in an effort to maintain a G-Rating),
but we can just call them "doubly ownerific."
<< in a sarcastic tone >> "Let me guess: those
are some of the ownerrific changes that we just got from the
architect, and everything is still due by Friday??? Why does
the owner want an acoustic ceramic tile drop ceiling? Make
sure you save off the project as-is so that we can change it back as
soon as they get the pricing information."
splen·der·rif·ic
adjective
Rayhornism #4
A 'complex contraction' used to describe something that is both splendid and terrific. This word is primarily used by preppy teenage girls, often when trying to avoid saying more words than necessary and still sound cool. The sounding cool part is usually not successful.
Note: I have never used this word, therefore I cannot correctly
use it in a sentence.
sus·peel·ing
noun
Rayhornism #2
A precognitive sense (or "gut intuition") that something is not
quite right: a suspicious feeling. When you "know" that something is
different or will change, but cannot yet substantiate your claim,
you have a suspeeling.
"Because of that meeting last week, I have a suspeeling that the
city is going to come back and want us to change this project at the
last possible moment."
hy·per·link
noun
Computer Science (not a Rayhornism)
A reference (link) from some point in one hypertext document to
(some point in) another document or another place in the same
document. A browser usually displays a hyperlink in some
distinguishing way, e.g. in a different color, font or style. When
the user activates the link (e.g. by clicking on it with the mouse)
the browser will display the target of the link.
Please tell me that you already knew what a hyperlink was, but you
had to click the thing anyway. Probably just because it was there,
right? I understand. Been there, done that.
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