Re: VMs: Epibrating

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I remember Carmiggelt (as mentioned by Petr)
using the Dutch word 'epibreren' as an 
axample of a word which he had just invented,
and trying to see if people reacted if he used
it, or would pretend that they understood.
It was supposed to make the speaker sound very
intelligent.

I just anglicised it. So to answer Dennis'
question, the etymology of the word is that
it comes from Dutch :-)

Cheers, Rene

--- Kim Fierens <kimfierens@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Dutch verb "epibreren" was invented by an
> unknown civil servant around
> 1950 and first used in print in 1954 by S.
> Carmiggelt, and it means
> something like this:
> 
> doing things without letting anyone know what you're
> doing and letting these
> things look very important (while actually they're
> trivial).
> 
> Can be used in both the active and the passive form.
> 
> So, someone who's epibrating a file is just very
> bored, nothing else to do
> and does all kinds of trivial things to that file
> (e.g. looking up all the
> words that begin with S) while saying that it's very
> important work.
> 
> Yours,
> Kim
> 
> 
>
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