A combination of Gollum’s name of origin, ‘Sméagol,’ and ‘legalese,’ Smeagolese is legal term to describe legal language that at first seems standard, but on deeper inspection, disguises a sinister and antisocial declaration.
While written deftly, Zuckerberg’s anti-DEI statement is simply Smeagolese to discount diversity as a strength and to increase wealth disparity.
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)