Glossary — M

mah-jongg

a game originated by the Zhongguo ren, usually played by four persons with 144 tiles that are drawn and discarded until one player secures a winning hand (language=Zhongwen) [Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; see cue/www=Merriam-Webster OnLine]

 

maliq'a

milk (language=Nostratic)

 

Maman

Mama (language=Français)

 

mamlambo

a beast from Xhosa tribal mythology which is said to live in rivers and if caught, provide great wealth (language=Xhosa). "South African villagers in a remote rural backwater are living in fear of a man-eating river creature said to have characteristics of both a fish and a horse. Ezra Sigwella, agriculture minister in the Eastern Cape region, told an astonished legislature that the beast had gobbled up seven victims in the Umzimhlava River to the north of the former Transkei black homeland. He promised to dispatch officials to hunt down the 'monster.' His remarks drew a few titters for the lawmakers, amid calls of 'mamlambo' ..." [Rocky Mountain News]

 

mokele-mbembe

enormous herbivore indigenous to the Laetoli Valley on Continent Popovich whose ponderous bodies seem elephant-like, but their blotched hides and long necks reminded people of giraffes (language=used in the Congo area of Africa, therefore Bemba, Lozi, Nyanja (Chewa), or Tonga, but I didn't take the time for further research; the phrase means "blocker-of-rivers" according to several sources, or "rainbow" in the so-called "pygmy" language according to at least one other, and describes a dinosaur-like beast reported, but never verified; pronunciation=moke-e-lay-mem-bee); see also phylogeny on Yeibichai

 

masa

a moist mash resulting from the grinding of corn soaked in a lime and water solution and used in preparing tortillas, tamales, and similar food (language=Español) [Encyclopædia Britannica; see cue/www=www.britannica.com]

 

mbarra

damn, a curse usually accompanied by spitting (language=Maasai)

 

medulla modem

direct interface between the Mirnaya Direvnya and a person's medulla oblongata so that treading the Global Village becomes an alternative form of walking (language=Yeibichai/technical jargon)

 

meeskait

ugliness; either physically or temperamentally ugly (language=Yidish Daytsh; pronunciation=MEES-kite) [Bluestein, Gene. Anglish/Yinglish. Athens: University of Georgia. 1989]

 

meetings

with the pervasiveness of the Mirnaya Direvnya, meetings have multiple approaches, which need to be distinguished within the words used to describe them, as follows. These words' semantics project onto the hearer, that is, this is what s/he can expect from the meeting. I didn't adapt words from another language here because of the small chance that such words exist and even if they did, they'd be too inaccessible to The Reader. The following kinds of meetings can be taken:

 

meeting/will-be-felt

refers to an intimate real-time meeting with physical sharing to one degree or another; nicknamed "will-feel"

meeting/can-be-felt

refers to a face-to-face real-time meeting when the parties could, if necessary, actually touch each other; nicknamed "can-feel"

meeting/will-be-seen

refers to a virtually face-to-face real-time meeting in which both parties actually look at each other's real-time images and talk to each other; nicknamed "will-see"

meeting/can-be-seen

refers to a virtual real-time meeting in which the participants may substitute false images of themselves and maybe even automate words; nicknamed "can-see"

meeting/will-be-heard

refers to a virtual many-to-many meeting that consists of one or more discussion groups that are either formal (known as forums) or informal (known as Klatsches); nicknamed "will-hear". Forums take place synchronously in real-time, probably as greatly expanded can-sees, although other presentation methods are possible; their conclusions are binding on the pertinent Collective. Klatsches, on the other hand, use a variety of presentation methods, with/without images, maybe even just text, and can be held in either real-time, where speakers participate synchronously, or not, where participants exchange words asynchronously

meeting/can-be-heard

refers to a real-time meeting that is audio only, like a telephone call; nicknamed "can-hear"

Meetings can be Limited to a specific set of attendees. Attendees can enter and leave meetings at will. Specific attendees, granted privileges over a meeting, are the only ones who can convene and recess a meeting; they can also terminate it abnormally, essentially dissolving the connections.

Automata also have their specialized meetings/database, with their own specialized language and access techniques.

 

mega-second

approximately ten Gë days (language=Yeibichai/telling time)

 

La Mère

Mother (language=Français)

 

mesograph

literally, middle picture; specifically, a video-like technology capable of portraying the insides of an object, animate or inanimate, using advanced magnetic-resonance or other techniques

 

Mirnaya Direvnya

Global Village (language=Rooski). On Yeibichai, the penultimate extension of contemporary Internet so that this cyberspace provides the infrastructure for all civilization

 

mitzrayim

narrow place, time of difficulty (language=Ivrit); in Jewish history, their bondage in Egypt

 

mizu

water (language=Kyotsu-go)

 

modal

in a computer's graphical user interface (GUI), a panel or window that takes over the user interface, blocking all other interaction till it is satisfied by a user action (language=American technical jargon)

 

moderated Klatsch or forum

method of passing floor-token within a will-hear discussion group in which the moderator determines the order in which the floor-token passes, although each active speaker is guaranteed minimum period of time (set as a property (aka attribute) for the group); see also toll-gated Klatsch (language=Yeibichai/technical jargon)

 

monomol

mono-molecular (verbal shorthand), a substance made from a single molecule, providing strength and cut-resistance based on atomic binding (language=Yeibichai/technical jargon)

 

mukha

coffee (from Al-Mukha (or "Mocha"), language=Al-fuSHa), a seaport on Al-Bahr Al-Ahmar (aka the Red Sea), from which coffee was initially exported because it was originally grown in Etiyop'iya Hizbawi (aka Ethiopia); mocha is a name for a coffee of superior quality; see also qahwah

 

mushroom

a fungus that's kept in the dark and fertilized with manure; in American business slang, the employees who feel they are treated the same way (language=American business slang)

 

mzee

old man, respectful (language=Waswahili)