Glossary — I
- ICES-pen
- a device shaped like a large pen used by people to interface with
computers; it captures and translates your handwriting as text; it captures
your drawings as graphical images; it e-mails or faxes either or both using
a built-in cellular phone; it provides an "air" calculator and
other such simulations of familiar computer applications. The concept won a
gold medal at the 1997 Industrial Design Excellence Awards; Chris Kasabach,
John Stivoric, and Francine Gemperle developed it at the Design Research
Studio at the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) at Carnegie
Mellon University. The designers call it "Digital Ink", but I
found that unnoteworthy in the digital future of my book. ["Future
Ink," Discover Magazine,
September 1998]
How does this device compare with the Anoto Wireless Pen shown in TIME's "On" Magazine, 05-Feb-01? It will use Bluetooth.
- idlis
- cakes of rice and lentils cooked by steaming, usually served in Andhra
Pradesh (aka southern India) (language=Urdu); cue/www=http://stylusinc.com/business/india/food.htm.
- il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte
- it is only the first step that costs (language=Français) [Roget's
Pocket Thesaurus]
- Indio Viejo
- literally "Old Indian" (language=Nicas aka Español de
Nicaragua), a soup-like dish, made with green iguanas, vegetables and ground
corn, which Nicaraguans traditionally cook for Holy Week; for a recipe,
cue/www=http://latinoculture.about.com/culture/latinoculture/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary
.thinkquest.org%2F17749%2Frecipes.html
- infraware
- automata (aka computers), if they're not there already, will become part
of a business' infrastructure; in fact, the term "IS" will soon
come to stand for "Infrastructure Services." As businesses employ
a mix of general-purpose and specialized computers in their buildings,
furniture, communication inside and outside the office, and so on, the
distinction between computer and appliance or service will fade until it all
becomes just "infraware" (language=Yeibichai);
see also policyware
- initiation-gated Klatsch
- Klatsch where attendance requires acceptance by the existing membership,
usually following a nomination process, then an initiation specific to the
Klatsch (language=Yeibichai/Em-Deh)
- injera
- a flatbread, made from tef flour in Etiyop'iya Hizbawi (aka Ethiopia),
delicious, "almost like rich chocolate" (language=Amharic)
[Rebecca Wood, _The Splendid Grain: Robust, Inspired Recipes for Grains with
Vegetables, Fish, Poultry, Meat & Fruit_ via RMNews 07-Oct-98]; see
cue/www=http://www.africanet.com/africanet/country/ethiopia/home.htm
- instance
- technically, a single use of an object class; for example, each time you
run your word-processor or spreadsheet, that session amounts to an instance
of that application; if you were to open two documents in separate windows,
you would be working two instances (language=American technical jargon)
- ipê
- a tree of the Brasilian rainforest whose wood is extremely hard and
durable; used on oceanfront boardwalks; Brasil's national tree (language=Amazonica
aboriginal) On Yeibichai,
its wood is yellow-brown.
- issaw
- coyote (language=Hopi)
- Ivrit
- the modern language called "Hebrew" in English; Ivrim = the Hebrew people; an individual Hebrew person = Ivri (male) or Invriya (female). However, no one, not since early Biblical times referred to the people of Israel (Israelites) as Ivrim. Today, we would use the term "Jews," or speak of "the people Israel" which is a synonym for Jews. Historically, we do not know exactly who the Ivrim were, or if they were a class of people; some scholarship suggests the Ivrim were a kind of mercenary force. The root of the word is "across"; according to some, the Invrim came from across "the river," possibly the Euphrates. We get to the word "Hebrew" from "Ivrit" by the foibles of transliteration: the Hebrew letter which is transliterated with a "b" in English takes a "v" sound in Hebrew, at least when it does not start a word; and of course, it easier in English to start a word with an h-sound than an i-sound, hence "IVri" becomes "HeBrew." Similarly, "YaacoV" becomes "Jacob." [David J. Zucker, rabbi]
