[Ads-l] "Shibbolize"
Herb Stahlke
hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 19 02:24:43 UTC 2015
A nice inversion of meaning.
Herb
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> A commenter on the Making Light site brought up a recently-coined word,
> of possible interest to ADS. Quoted with permission:
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> "All the language creation in this thread (millpunk, aquaduct punk)
> reminds me of a delightful new word I heard last week: shibbolized.
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> Among other things, "Shibboleth" is the name of a "federated identity
> solution", a web-based single sign in. Someone describing the system to
> me said that "once you sign in, once you've been shibbolized, you don't
> have to sign in on the other sites."
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> Shibbolized--to be recognized as a member of an accepted / permitted
> group. Instead of a bartender saying, "I need to see your ID", they
> could say, "I need to shibbolize you."
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> That would be wonderful."
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> Jim Parish
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