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cosplay
noun
the art or practice of wearing costumes to portray characters from fiction, especially from manga, animation, and science fiction.
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Cosplay is a blend of costume and play, but the combination is masking a much more complex performance. Japanese borrowed the English compound noun costume play (as in theater) and rendered it into its sound system as 办辞蝉耻肠丑奴尘耻-辫耻谤脓, which was shortened by the 1980s to kosupure and narrowed to the more specific sense 鈥渢he art or practice of wearing costumes to portray characters from fiction, especially from manga, animation, and science fiction鈥� (as well as characters from video games). English borrowed back kosupure and refashioned it as cosplay by the 1990s. Japanese words like kosupure聽are considered pseudo-English Japanese coinages known as wasei-eigo. Other familiar examples adopted into English from Japanese include salaryman, anime, and 笔辞办茅尘辞苍, the latter itself聽a popular subject of cosplay.
how is cosplay used?
Although cosplay isn鈥檛 a requirement at Comic-Con, many people participate, and they take it extremely seriously.
The goal, many cosplayers interviewed said, is to disrupt popular ideas of what cosplay can and should look like and to help create a more racially tolerant聽environment聽through cosplay, both in Black Panther costumes and outside of them.
ideogram
noun
a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
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An ideogram or ideograph is 鈥渁 written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.鈥� Ideogram and ideograph literally mean 鈥渁 written idea,鈥� from Greek 颈诲茅补 鈥渋dea鈥� and the noun 驳谤谩尘尘补 or the Greek combining form –graphos, both meaning 鈥渟omething written,鈥� which are derivatives of the verb 驳谤谩辫丑别颈苍 鈥渢o write.鈥� Because ideograms convey meaning, not words or sounds, 5 can be pronounced five, 蹿眉苍蹿, 辫颈臋膰, 辫臅迟, 辫茅苍迟别, 辫茅尘辫别, or in several thousand other ways.聽Ideogram and ideograph both entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is ideogram used?
Ideograms are symbols that represent ideas or concepts rather than objects themselves鈥攁 circle with a line through it (馃毇) to indicate prohibition, for example. Many emoji are hybrids of ideograms and pictograms.
Chinese characters are based on the simplified outlines of concrete elements in the visible world. Reduced to abstract lines and combined together, these yield the thousands of characters called ideograms, i.e.: idea transcribers.
Barmecidal
adjective
giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
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It is forgivable, even rational鈥攂ut nevertheless incorrect鈥攖o think that Barmecidal means something like 鈥渒illing Barm or a Barm or a barm or barms,鈥� just as the adjective homicidal is formed from the noun homicide. Analyzing Barmecidal from back to front, we see the familiar adjectival suffix –al. The element –id or –ide is the not so familiar Greek noun suffix –id, a feminine patronymic suffix having the general sense 鈥渙ffspring of, descendant of,鈥� and used especially with the names of dynasties (such as Pisistratid, Abbasid, Attalid). The first two syllables, Barmec-, come from Persian Barmak, the name of a wealthy Iranian family that was very influential in Baghdad under the Abassid dynasty, and famous for its patronage of the arts and sciences. A Barmecidal banquet (or feast) refers to a story from the The Arabian Nights Entertainments; its 鈥渉ero鈥� is Ja’far ibn Yahya Barmaki (Ja’far al-Barmaki, also Giafar), who served a beggar a series of empty platters, pretending the empty platters were a sumptuous feast, a fiction or nasty joke that the beggar cheerfully accepted.
how is Barmecidal used?
The men employed by Mr. Hackley, the Street Contractor, assembled yesterday, the regular pay-day, at the office, in the Park, to receive their semi-monthly wages, but they were met by the assurance that there was no money, and that it was only a Barmecidal pay-day.
Why … did I leave the Great Gatsby聽bemoaning not the Barmecidal mousetrap of the American dream, but rather the director鈥檚 Liza-Minnelli-performing-鈥淎ll-the-Single-Ladies鈥�-in-Sex-and-the-City-2聽style of adapting epic tragedies?