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2023 October 20, “🔴 Live: Pro-Palestinian protests erupt across Arab world as aid remains stuck at Gaza border”, in France24 (in English):

A red Record light alerts both participants that recording is in progress.

2010, Robin Williams, John Tollett, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (in English), Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 182:

(cameras, television) Indicates a recording.

The red dot on your Apple Watch is a signal that shows you have unread notifications. These can be anything from calls and texts to push notifications from apps, like somebody liking your post on Facebook or requesting to follow you on Instagram.

2023 January 10, Sarah Vincent, “What Is That Red Dot on Your Apple Watch—and How Do You Get Rid of It?”, in Reader's Digest (in English):

(graphical user interface, social media) An unread notification.

[On this freeware chat application, a 🔴 will appear below a user's profile picture if they set their status to the "do not disturb" option.]

2025 February 26, “Discord”, in Discord Inc. (in Translingual):

Image from Metal Gear Solid, with Solid Snake as ⚪ and his enemies represented by multiple 🔴.

2014, James Paul Gee, Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds and Video Games (in English), Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 40:

(video games) Indicates an enemy or target.

(video games) Indicates an objective or goal.


graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, social media) Online; active; available.

(video games, appears at the top of an entity) Indicates a teammate, ally or friendly NPC, such as one that posses a quest for the player.


Hamburgevons

(typography) A word of no meaning but containing all essential forms of the Latin alphabet, used for assessing the design and appearance of a typeface.


Due to the fact that the colors of a watermelon, red (flesh), white (inner rind), black (seeds), and green (outer rind), coincide with those of the Palestinian flag.

(politics) Palestine; the Palestinian flag


🤓 (“nerd emoji”) + ☝ (“pointing upwards emoji”).
Arose around October 2022 among Latin American Twitter users in reference to an image macro.

compound

Synonym of 🤓 (“used to suggest someone is overexplaining, a pedant or nerdy”).


(jazz, rare) Sometimes used at the beginning of the staff.


From the compounding of two emoji, 🗣 (speaking; shouting) + 🔥 (fire). Popularised in 2023 through social networking service TikTok.

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that one is shouting or speaking with vehemence; also, used to add emphasis to a statement or opinion.


From the compounding of two emoji, 🍷 (wine) + 🗿 (moai). Popularised in 2023 through social networking service TikTok.

(Internet slang, sometimes humorous) Indicates that something is of high intellectual value, agreeable or admirable, or sigma male-related.


From the red triangle in the Palestinian flag, held hoist-up.

(social media, politics) indicates support for Palestine or for Hamas in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war


1827, Franz Schubert, Impromptu in G♭ major, Opus 90, № 3, Andante (D. 899), published 1857, incipit


Coordinate term: *

Compare the following incorrect sentences:
Eats like pig.
Pig like eats.

(descriptive linguistics) Indicates that a term or phrase is more grammatically incorrect (or otherwise ill-formed) than another.

Coordinate term: *

If Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “dates”) were cognate to Aramaic תְּמָרָא (təmārā, “dates”) instead of being borrowed from it, the Hebrew form would be שָׁמָר** (**shamár), for thus is the regular correspondence of the Proto-Semitic *ṯ present in its cognate Arabic ثَمَر (ṯamar, “fruits”).

(historical linguistics) Indicates that the term has been invented for the sake of argument and is not assumed to have been real.


Formed via the combination of three Unicode characters: - (“hyphen-minus”) + combining characters ⃤ (“combining enclosing upward pointing triangle”) + ⃝ (“combining enclosing circle”).

(Internet slang, subculture) A Unicode rendering of the theta-delta, representing therianthropy and otherkinity.


(music, rare) A quarter tone sharp note.


(music, dated) A three-quarter tone sharp note.

(music) An undefined microtone note between a sharp and three-quarter tone sharp; the exact value needs to be defined for each work.


(music, dated) A quarter tone sharp note.

(music) An undefined microtone note between a quarter tone sharp and a full sharp; the exact value needs to be defined for each work.


(music) An undefined microtone note less than a quarter tone sharp; the exact value needs to be defined for each work.


(music, dated) A quarter tone flat note.

(music) An undefined microtone note less than a quarter tone flat; the exact value needs to be defined for each work.


(music) An undefined microtone note between a quarter tone flat and a full flat; the exact value needs to be defined for each work.


(music, dated) A three-quarter tone flat note.

(music) An undefined microtone note between a flat and three-quarter tone flat; the exact value needs to be defined for each work.


(Teuthonista)
(phonetics) Voiced (of a click letter)


> (eyebrows) + : (eyes) + 3 (cat-like smile)

An emoticon conveying silliness or playfulness.


(phonetics, Scots) voiceless labialization, such as ⟨xᫀ⟩ for [xꭩ] or ⟨ɸᫀ⟩ for [ɸꭩ] at the end of a word.


(phonetics, Scots) voiced labialization, such as ⟨xᪿ⟩ for [xʷ] or ⟨ɸᪿ⟩ for [ɸʷ] before a vowel.


The words \ˈmeɪri\ (Mary), \ˈmɛri\ (merry) and \ˈmæri\ (marry) are all pronounced /ˈmɛri/ in General American, whereas \ˈspɑː\ (spa) and \ˈspɑːr\ (spar) are both pronounced /ˈspɑː/ in Received Pronunciation.

(linguistics) Encloses diaphonemic transcription.


Chilicola charizard

Chilicola + English Charizard (“species of Pokémon”). Charizard is a blend of char + lizard.

affix

A taxonomic species within the family Colletidae – xeromelissine bees.


Rathalos

Direct borrowing from English Rathalos (“dragon species from the Monster Hunter video game series”), possibly a faux word related to English wrath.

bor

A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Anyphaeninae – a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders.


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Various:
* (punk): Arose in the late 1970s, origin obscure.
* (solidarity): Proposed by the British Twitter user @cheeahs on 26 June 2016 as an object which can be subtly attached to one's clothing to signify being a "safe" ally to those experiencing racism following the United Kingdom's Brexit referendum. After going viral on the platform in the following days, the safety pin became a symbol against worldwide racism as a whole and later any forms of discrimination in general.
* (diaper): Resembles a diaper pin; by extension used as a metonym for babies or childcare in general.
* (sewing): Safety pins are widely applicable to sewing as they can be used to fasten fabrics; by extension, applicable and useful also in arts and crafts.

(politics, neologism) Shows solidarity against discrimination, often in support of a minority, persecuted, vulnerable, marginalised or disadvantaged group, or victims of crimes or hardship in general.

(politics, neologism) Shows support for, and solidarity with, immigrants and immigration.

(chiefly politics, neologism, more generally) Unity.


(metonymically) Christmas; nativity; Christmastide; Valentine's Day; love; care.

(Christianity) Christ Child; the baby Jesus, as born on Christmas Day.


(metonymically, politics) Elections; voting; polls; consensus.


(music) An instruction indicating that the player should rest for multiple bars.


Created in 1963 by the National Autistic Society of England; popularized largely by Autism Speaks beginning 2005.

(by extension, often offensive) Represents mental illness.

Represents autism and autism awareness.
Represents mental illness.


From its blue or grey-blue colour on many operating systems, which resembles the former logo and mascot of Twitter (now X)—a stylised blue silhouette of a bird in flight.

Danni Wyatts 124 is the highest T20 score by and Englishwoman according to @voigthill on 🐦

2023 August 14, u/thatguybruv, “Match Thread: 20th Match - Trent Rockets (Women) vs Welsh Fire (Women)”, in r/Cricket, Reddit:

(Internet slang) X (formerly Twitter): an online social networking service.


Bulbasaurus

English Bulbasaur (“species of Pokémon”) + -us m, with the influence of -saurus m (“lizard”). English Bulbasaur is derived from English bulb (“plant part”) + English -a- (“phonetic interfix”) + English -saur (“lizard, saurian”), literally “bulb-lizard”.

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A taxonomic genus within the family Geikiidae – certain extinct mammals.


Rathalos treecko

Binomial compound of Rathalos + English Treecko (“species of Pokémon”). English Treecko is from a blend of English tree (“type of plant”) + English gecko (“type of lizard”).

blend

A taxonomic species within the family Anyphaenidae – a certain anyphaenid sac spider.


(poetry) Alternative form of ˘ (unaccented syllable)


(Internet slang, cryptocurrencies) to the moon


-pro

PIE word
 *pró
Abbreviation of New Latin proto-, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first, firstmost”), from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”), from Proto-Hellenic *pró, from Proto-Indo-European *pró, Proto-Indo-European *per-.

der

itc (“Italic languages”) + -pro → itc-pro (“Proto-Italic”)

ine (“Indo-European languages”) + -pro → ine-pro (“Proto-Indo-European”)

language families
language family#English

(linguistics) proto-; proto-language; used to create the language codes of proto-languages from the language codes of language families.


ZWG

(international standards) ISO 4217 currency code for the Zimbabwe Gold.


sore⹕k⹖kiri means that the geminate /k/ is optional: sorekkiri and sorekiri are both acceptable.

(grammar) A delimiter indicating optional elipsis in phonology or grammar. More precise than ….


watasi ⹗ga⹘ sika means that the particle ga does not occur before sika.

(grammar) A delimiter indicating obligatory elipsis in phonology or grammar. More precise than ….


Superscript S

(phonetics) a superscript wildcard S, used i.a. for a sibilant release of a consonant


Ʞ⃝

(phonetics) an unidentifiable/indeterminate click consonant

○ and ◌⃝ for uses of a letter inside a circle


i drew sukuna ...👹 I'll post it tm goodnight

2023 November 10, @gentlemantoji, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-03:

(Internet slang) Used to indicate an intimidating or unpleasant tone of voice.


We can write la{t,d}er for the conflated pronunciation of ladder and latter in American English. This may instead be written ⫽laDer⫽, where ⫽D⫽ is the archiphoneme {t, d}, or with both conventions for {laDer}.

(linguistics) Encloses morphophonemic transcription.

(linguistics) Encloses diaphonemic transcription.


ΘΔ

Formed with the letter combination Θ (theta) + Δ (delta).

(Internet slang, subculture) A Unicode rendering of the theta-delta, representing therianthropy and otherkinity.


For example, the first stroke in 飞.

(Chinese calligraphy) The stroke combination 橫 (“horizontal”) + 斜 (“slant”) + 鉤 (“hook”).


For example, the first stroke in 奊.

(Chinese calligraphy) The stroke combination 豎 (“vertical”) + 折 (“bent”) + 撇 (“left-falling”).


σ⃝

(phonetics) an unidentifiable/indeterminate syllable


rfz

(music) rinforzando (of playing: with special emphasis)


(Internet slang, subculture) Used to represent alterhumanity.


w̶

voiceless labial–velar fricative
w:voiceless labial–velar fricative

(lexicography) Used for the voiceless labial–velar fricative, IPA [ʍ].


Derived from the symbol of Schutzstaffel.


TwT

T (closed eye with tears) + w (cat-like mouth) + T (closed eye with tears)

An emoticon representing a cutesy crying face with a cat-like mouth, and closed eyes with tears streaming down.


(computing, typography) is a non-breaking space and is a space character that prevents an automatic line break.

(computing, typography) Used as a graphics for control codes.