Shalroth's definitions

Japlish

Badly and often hilariously translated text, usually Japanese in origin (but not exclusively), usually seen on grey import electronic goods. Not to be confused with "Engrish" which is poorly constructed english using japanese linguistics.

"To avoid the erase of recording, please to break the tab in corer of tape is desirable"

by Shalroth May 15, 2005

ptfe

Polytetrafluorethylene. Coating applied to my cow-workers in order to avoid new assignments

Gurjit has an outer layer of PTFE

by Shalroth May 23, 2005

rememberful

Opposite of 'Forgetful!'

Mark's more rememberful than me lately

by Shalroth June 14, 2005

Newton

The first popular PDA from Apple Computer. Early versions of the newton were slow and had poor handwriting recognition, but later revisions were very useful devices.

Newton was for a while a catch-all term to describe any PDA, in the same way as palmpilot and the british use of Hoover to describe any vacuum cleaner.

"I can't use my Newton with my new mactop so I had to buy a Palm"

by Shalroth May 15, 2005

Squegg

Hollow chocolate cube launched around easter 2001 in the UK by Cadbury. Corruption of "Square Egg."

The Squegg was unpopular and has not been on the market for several years.

by Shalroth May 17, 2005

gaypod

Term used by owners of cheaper, inferior iPod clones to describe the MP3 player they wish they could afford.

"Look at them white earphones, he's obviously got a gaypod"

by Shalroth May 23, 2005