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Glossary
— F

- fábrica
- factory (language=Español)
- familia Miranda
- noisy onlookers (language=Castellano Chileno)
- fei yang
- flying high (language=Zhongwen);
name used by Coca-Cola for its brand of soft drinks in Taiwan; the brand
includes indigenous teas and fruit-juice drinks designed to appeal to young
people
- felo-de-se
- one who deliberately kills himself or who dies from the effects of his
commission of an unlawful malicious act (language=Middle Latin: felo
de se, fello de se, literally, evildoer in respect to oneself; 1607)
[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; see cue/www=Merriam-Webster
OnLine]
- fiducia
- confidence; trust (language=Italiano); on Yeibichai,
an authentication, acting like a password, that combines
with an Em-Deh identifier to
permit automated access to something; the fiducia consists of some
combination of voice and words, other sounds, visual image, or smell.
- First Nations
- what Canadians call Native Americans, which is more appropriate since
nobody is native to North and Sud América (language=Canadian)
- floor-token
- virtual indicator of permission to speak in a will-hear
discussion group; specific algorithm, whether round-robin,
priority, or moderated,
is a property of the group (language=Yeibichai/technical
jargon)
- foilscreen
- display screen for infraware,
whether stationary or llevar,
comprised of soft, flat material capable of high resolution and full color
that may be manipulated easily (language=Yeibichai/tek);
see also holoscreen and curvescreen
- folkeeventyr
- folktakes (language=Norske)
- foofoo
- an extremely thick porridge made from ground cassava, corn, rice, and/or
yams; a staple of West African cuisines (language=Waswahili)
[Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts by way of The
Denver Post]
- forum
- formal discussion group in a meeting/will-be-heard;
see meetings, moderated
forum, pulse poll, round-robin,
sense poll (language=Yeibichai/Em-Deh)
- Four-Fiver
- an age in life, very equivalent to teenage; see also telling
time (language=Yeibichai/slang)
- from-region
- Yeibichai way of
acknowledging a person's ancestry on Gë,
where region is the name of the region on Gë
as the people there call it; for example, from-Zhongguo
means from-China and from-USA means from-United States of America because
from-America would be presumptive and rude to other peoples of America; may
also indicate a culture where the region is dominated by another culture,
for example, from-Euskara (aka Basque) instead of from-España (language=Yeibichai)
- full-seconds
- round-the-clock, all the time (language=Yeibichai/slang)
- futsal
- also called "five-a-side" soccer, or indoor soccer, futsal is
designed to be played on a five-a-side basketball court, with a non-bouncing
ball (language=Português). It demonstrates such skills as stop and
go, ball control, dribbling, shooting power and strategy. This game
originated in South America, where Brasil alone has five million players. At
the 1997 North American Indigenous Games, the Cowichan Tribes extended
invitations to Australia, Fiji, Hawaii, Brasil and Mexico. See also cue/www=http://www.futsalplanet.com/
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