A person who is educated at the Modern School, New Delhi. Someone who is bright, intelligent, confident, well rounded personality, outstanding and stylish. Someone who believes in "Salvation cannot be achieved by the Weak". He also takes great pride in this identity and is almost snobbish about it.
The Bushism term for modernize, to takesomething old and to change it so it looks and or sounds like it is from the present (eg. a rewrite of an old novel)
Rick: What the hell am i suppose to do with this old novel again?
Teacher: you're suppose to modernficate it
Rick: ok i'll try to make it look modernified
compass, someone who does not have
any talent albeit that of cheating .
2. Term used for the alumni of a school that prides itself on teaching the new age(modern) thieves, beggars, and scam artists.
Hey that pervert is such a modernite!
Dont steal stuff, peoplewill label you as a modernite.
The constricting paradigm of electronic music oriented software digital audio workstations resulting in the homogenization of related music production techniques, and eventually, the music itself.
Newcomers to electronic music have a tendency to get stuck in the software oriented, Abletonistic modernity of the past decade, often ignoring or unaware of the quirky, more hardware oriented approach to electronic music production from previous decades.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)