2 definitions by drleung

denortonize

Transitive verb used to describe college students' deep aversion to thick, brick-sized textbooks that are expensive and a pain to lug around.
Meaning: to get rid of thick anthologies (such as the famed Norton Anthology) or brick-sized textbooks for a seminar; to remove big anthologies from the list of required textbooks for courses or exams.
Noun: denortonization
Antonym: nortonize. To use or recommend the use of thick anthologies for a course or exam.

1. The faculty is looking into ways to denortonize the curriculum.
2. It makes sense to denortonize now that we only offer seminars on individual authors.
3. How does one denortonize the exam when so many authors have to be covered?

by drleung July 4, 2009

skopulate

Skopulate
trans. verb
Other forms: skopulated, skopulates, skopulating
n. skopulation
Word origin: skopos + manipulate
Def.:
1. To manipulate the outcome to suit a purpose (skopos), however irrelevant or outrageous.
2. To justify such a manipulation.
3. To unfairly steer a decision or a process towards a manifest purpose.

The judge ruled that the findings were unacceptable because the investigation had been clearly skopulated in favor of the plaintiff.
To ignore all the risks to serve the interest of a specific party is a clear act of skopulation.

by drleung February 27, 2017