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#61 Bruce Klein

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Posted 24 March 2005 - 09:54 PM

Epik

#62 Mind

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Posted 24 March 2005 - 10:20 PM

So far I like Nate's revir/rev/revirescent

If this is a word that is chosen/voted on, I like the pronunciation that is the same as "revere".

Also, I am not sure if anyone mention this but "rev" is also part of reverse...as in "reverse the aging process"

#63 Trias

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Posted 24 March 2005 - 10:35 PM

Epik


Thanks Bruce, [lol]

My 3 top-favorites are:
1. Perinners / Periners (pronounced: PEH-REE-NERS ) (inarchunite)

2. Aeviters / Aevers (inarchunite)

3. Epichrons / Epikrons / Epiks (inarchunite)


Sorry for voting only for my suggestion, but I genuinely find them the best to my liking =)
after top 3:

4. Revirescentians (very creative!)

5. Neochrons

What a beautiful brainstorming.
Two thumbs up to everyone who contributes!

Ameliorate, without limits!
-Daniel S.

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#64 jaydfox

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Posted 26 March 2005 - 02:13 PM

I do speak fluent Greek so let me know if you need any other translations


Prometheus, how do you say young or youth?

I'm thinking along the lines of "young years", "long-lasting youth", or "youth with many years" or something along those lines.

#65 vizikahn

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Posted 26 March 2005 - 06:27 PM

Nuons. New ones.

#66 Infernity

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Posted 26 March 2005 - 07:13 PM

I'd go for Aeviters, as Daniel's suggestion.

[>] Great fitting meaning

[>] From Latin as I like

[>] Short and easy to remember

[>] Great sounding


Yours truthfully
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#67 zeitgeist

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 07:32 AM

The word you are looking for is: AGERIAN

#68 nefastor

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 07:57 AM

Just thought I'd post a suggestion.

As some might remember, I'm advocating immortality through cybernetics (my recursive motto : "withstanding eternity requires a sturdier body"). In this perspective, flesh would be replaced mostly by inorganic parts, in which case an immortal could be called a...

MINERAL

as opposed to biological.

It could be reduced as "a min", as in :

"I was a bio until the pollution got too high. I became a min just so I wouldn't have to breathe carbon monoxyde anymore"

I also like "revirescent", by the way. But as a french I wouldn't mind shortening it to "rev". Also, rev conveys the idea of "revolution" : a change, but also a cycle, something which never ends.

Whatever word we choose, you can be 150% certain that people will shorten it to a single syllabe. People called their Macintosh a "Mac" right away.

So don't worry too much about finding a short word right away. Just make sure the word CAN be shortened without becoming ridiculous or offensive (butt, pig...)

Jean

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 12:09 PM

Two syllable, newly created word to describe the relationship of my sim-sister, Infernity, may be considered:

infi

affection beyond temporal or words

Can also mean:

We were once young, now we're old, soon we'll be infi.

infi

free from the blight of involuntary death


Hey brother, I've seen it only now. I don't think anyone can realize it :\ . Oh well, maybe inarchunite...

Yours truthfully
~Infernity

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 02:55 PM

Another reason why "rev" is a good word (besides being a base in "revolution" and "reverse") is its use in automotive lingo. "Revving up your engine" could be likened to defeating aging.

Aging causes us to slow down, and anti-aging treatment will allow us to rev-up once again.

#71 vizikahn

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 04:40 PM

Banzai ;)
http://en.wikipedia...._thousand_years

I think rev is the right word.

#72 JonesGuy

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 05:20 PM

The word won't have to last very long. Within a reasonable amount of time, I'd expect that everyone will have young-looking bodies. Then referring to them in their chronological age would then make more sense again.

It's only the near-future where a rejuvenated youth would be confused with an actual youth.

Another semantic problem would initiate once skills and memories no longer had to be lived to be gained, but could be added, downloaded, slotted, etc.

I mean, what would you call a person who had been alive for 80 years, had the body of a 20 year old, and had a combined memory of over 120 years (additional memories that had been purchased)?

Ouch.

#73 nefastor

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 10:26 PM

QJones, you mean there wouldn't be babies anymore ?

Once the revs are among us, there will always be both kinds of youth (actual and revir). As long as new humans are born, cloned, bred, hatched, grown or whatever we'll do to reproduce.

In fact, considering the exponential numbers of revir's and their everlasting sexual powers and massive ammounts of spare time, it's likely we will be making more children than rabbits on viagra. The need to differentiate people according to the offset between their real and apparent ages will only grow stronger.

Here's an idea about age : measure it on an exponential scale : "1" for ten years, "4" for 10,000 years, "6" for a million years...

Considering that our own perception of the flow of time varies as we age, eventually it would seem to us that a comparable ammount of time passes between each of our "birthdays". And it will keep cakes from being burried in candles. [lol]

About the acquisition of knowledge : I think you're not taking into account the need to practice. Theoretical knowledge that you could copy to your mind is never going to match the pure reflexes of a skilled practitionner. People who watch lots of martial arts movies don't become Bruce Lee. Because knowledge is not reflex. Besides, the body needs to match : an overweight american couch-potato might "upload" Bruce Lee's skill into his brain, he won't be jumping across his living room and doing high-kicks.

Forget about what you've seen in "the Matrix". It never applied to a "real" body anyway, but to a virtual one.

Jean

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 02:27 AM

a Dorian (re: The Portrait of Dorian Gray)

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 03:53 PM

Banzai ;)
http://en.wikipedia...._thousand_years

I think rev is the right word.

Heh, I like wansui! "(live for) ten thousand years "

I'm guessing that "wan" means ten thousand, since wanwansui means 100 million (ten thousand ten thousands).

#76 nefastor

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 08:38 PM

No posts for a couple of days... can we consider we have reached our target ?

Rev / Revirescent seems to have the favor of many.

Jean

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 08:49 PM

From Nate, Jaydfox, myself and others, we seem to have muchly resolved to revd (rev'd). Now would be a good time to ask if there are any folks who strongly OBJECT to it - and for what reason. Speak now or forever hold your Rev'd peace.

dg

In the short form:
adj: rev'd/rev'ing (depending on usage)
noun: revir/rever (person) [pronounced revver/reaver]
verb: rev (transitive or intransitive), revir (transitive) [pronounced like revere], reviresce (intransitive)

Long form:
adj: revirescent
adv: revirescently
noun: revirescence (state of being), revirescent (person) [consider: fluorescence is a state, but you would call a fluorescent person a fluorescent, because they have the property of fluorescence; i.e. two different noun forms, one being sort of like a nominative adjective in a way]
verb: reviresce (intransitive), revirify or something similar (transitive)

#78 Lazarus Long

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 09:17 PM

For the record I see this again as preaching to the choir and seriously doubt the word will be picked up by any but us, if then.

It is just too... well too..

How can I put this nicely?

I can't, it is too pseudo-intellectual. [tung]

Try getting a word that appeals to the smart ass kid test without such vague and less than obvious etymology.

This is like some kind of secret password the Masons would use to gain entrance to their *inner sanctum*. [wis]

I was surprised to find Supercentenarian out there in public use already and while it is to limited for my tastes it at least is easily understood and rolls off the tongue more cogently than *revirescent.*

Here is an example try a little creative writing test.

The revirescent rev'd it up and everyone thought their hearts beat so fast they would leap from their chests but true to their glacial revierscence they were just laughing at the irony.

Just an example of revered laughter at their verb confusion when they claimed to be a bunch of Nascar dads when no one remembers race cars anymore.


#79 Lazarus Long

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 09:22 PM

Here is an example of an invented word from one of the many groups I meme with.

Illiterati

-Those who claim to have it ALL figured out but when they try to explain it, they spell it wrong.

Now this is a word with traction I bet :))

#80 Lazarus Long

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 09:28 PM

Please everyone for another brief example of scatological etymologies refer to this link and be sure your sound is on.

Do you know Jack?

#81 Da55id

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 10:16 PM

I'm not so very jazzed about revirescent...no more than I was with autocarriage (1904) - now know as car. The thing I like best is that revd is short and evocative of positive memes that directly address the issue approprIately. Yes, I would expect revirescent to fade away, just like the seed dies to make the tree.

#82 Lazarus Long

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 11:02 PM

Yes, I would expect revirescent to fade away, just like the seed dies to make the tree.


We should be so lucky.

You asked for objections so I gave some but this is a trivial (but fun [lol] ) exercise in so many ways that what we really need is for Leon Kass to find his worst appropriate epithet for us and then that will allow us to put the evil twist of ironic spin on it.

Nothing like stealing your worst enemy's thunder to grasp their power of memes. :)

Think of it like intellectual *chi* [thumb]

BTW nobody called dem autocarriages cept'n those silly inventors and hi falooten snooties. We'z all juz called them *horseless carriages* an took any opportunity to kick em if'n we didin jus leave Ole Bessie's droppins in their path. [glasses]

Y'all just hafta take my word for it as I wuz der [tung]

Youz yungun's juz gotta notta conchadick folks dats 'members gas lights [wis]

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Posted 01 April 2005 - 05:53 PM

Illiterati [lol]

Laz this is the funniest thing I've read for this whole week [lol] thank you

Jean

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Posted 01 April 2005 - 07:09 PM

click, click, click...Operator...could you help me please - I think I've got a bad connection...

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Posted 12 April 2005 - 03:10 PM

Hi Bruce,

My suggesstion:

"Chiranjeevi" =>(noun) Sanskrit word.

Meaning/describing= " a perpetually living (potentially immortal) healthy human being with no signs of ageing. (from Indian mythology) ".

The word is still used colloquially to indicate an active/healthy senior citizen and/or even a lively young person who shows signs of long life. It is also used in the context of conveying greetings, blessings, good wishes; thus: "Chiranjeevo Bhava ! ",=May you live a long & healthy life !//

Regards,
Sasy Kumar
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(PS= this was intented to appear against the thread started by Dave Gobel reg.suggestions for a new word to indicate a healthy 500 year old; Bruce: can you please transfer this to that page., sorry for the inconvenience.)

Edited by caliban, 15 April 2005 - 03:04 PM.


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Posted 07 May 2005 - 01:00 AM

Rejuvenator

#87 Bruce Klein

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Posted 11 August 2005 - 11:43 PM

Would you consider doing a contest for folks to invent a cool word for this? The only thing I ask is that we capture email addresses and that MF would get a copy of the list generated...We would be willing to offer a $100 bounty to the winner - I'd suggest that the winner be derived by a multivote system if you're familiar with that method.

Then we can begin to memefect the language with the new word.


Hi Dave,

Is this something you still wish to pursue? Perhaps, in order to bring to a more formal vote, we can create a poll...

Bruce

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Posted 12 August 2005 - 02:07 AM

Hi BJ - I was just thinking about this today - I still like the "revved" result, and am willing to pay $100 to the original coiner of the term.

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Posted 12 August 2005 - 08:13 AM

am willing to pay $100 to the original coiner of the term

Well that's easy -- It appears that was you [thumb]

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Posted 12 August 2005 - 09:58 AM

I thought it was Nate Barna, with his "revirescence". Then I came up with a list of grammatical breakdowns, and Dave took it from there to settle on revved. But the suggestion started with Nate's revirescence.




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