Technotalk Dictionary

A guide to the language of the future.

[A - C] [D - H] [L - R] [S - Z]

A - C

Affirm/Affirmative (ex): Yes.
Aftermunch (n): Afternoon.
Assimilate (v): Learn/remember.
Batch code (n): The part of a batched being's coded reference logic that indicates day of batching. It is used somewhat like a surname.
Batch day (n): The equivalent of a birthday. The children of the future are batched rather than born.
Bureaubeing (n): An administrator or office worker such as 80H, the nominal head of Luna's household.
Bureaubureau (n): A higher level of the bureaucracy to which bureauoffices are answerable.
Bureauoffice (n): Administrative centre for a sector, run by a bureaubeing. 80H runs the bureauoffice for sector 8-0.
Citbeing (n): Citizen.
Clads (n): Clothes.
Clunk (n): Junk, unwanted or obsolete items.
Coded Reference Logic (n): The identification numbers that have replaced names, such as 72 Batch 19Y or CB1979D.
Compatibeing (n): Spouse, or at least partner in whatever substitute for marriage now exists.
Cosmos (n): Used in place of "god" in expressions like "gratitudes cosmos".
Costly (n): Dear - as a term of endearment, or "oh dear".
Crotchety (n): Senior paterbeing (slang).

D - H

Dentalrental (n): Dentist.
Destitime (n): Time of arrival.
Digitime Scanner (n): Watch.
Diminibeing (n): A child. Sometimes shortened to just "dimini".
Dimini Colony (n): The place where diminibeings are raised before being assigned to a habiviron or otherwise redistributed. It probably bears some resemblance to a boarding school.
Domicile (n): Another word for habiviron.
Efficiecenter (n): A public computer terminal offering various services including transitization and molecular realization.
Egothenticity Card (n): The universal identity card which must be kept at all times by citizens of the Efficiecity. It looks like a circuit board, and stores all details medical, ethical, sophical, physical, and logical for a being. The card has on board processing ability, which amongst other things enables it to compute appropriate redistribution for diminis leaving their diminicolony. Diminibeings are issued with their egothenticity cards upon leaving.
Erroneously Mislaid (adj): Lost.
Entry Port (n): Front door.
Fangquack (n): Dentist (slang).
Feloniously Misappropriated (adj): Stolen.
Finger Sensitouchpad (n): Button.
Goo (n): The nutritious substances which habivirons provide for the nourishment of the inhabitants. Includes greens (packed with nutrition), pinks, and yellows.
Gratitudes (ex): Thank you.
Habiprac (n): Homework.
Habiviron (n): An apartment for a unit group. Habiviron Jo-Y, which is probably typical in design if nothing else, consists of an large open communal space, and private limbs for each being. Habivrons are run by a computer, and are assigned an android habiwarden.
Habiwarden (n): An android which looks after a habiviron and its occupants, performing physical tasks which are beyond the abilities of the viron computer.
Heargear (n): Ears.

L - R

Limb (n): A room. Habivirons have sleeping limbs, for example.
Luneday (n): Monday.
Megadecibels (adj): Very loud.
Mixing (n): Part of the batching process, probably conception.
Molecular Realization (n): The process of constructing a physical object out of thin air, which functions much like Star Trek's replicators. An Efficiecenter is able to create an egothenticity card in this manner.
Munch (n): A meal, particularly lunch (cv aftermunch). Firstmunch is breakfast, and thirdmunch is dinner. All munchs consist of goo and/or munch pills.
Munchdisk (n): Plate.
Neg/Negative (ex): No.
Numeracy (n): The use of coded reference logic. Beings are supposed to conform to numeracy instead of using oldworld names.
Obliviate (v): To destroy. Bureaus are equipped with obliviators for disposal of waste - including any beings who are unable to show their egothenticity card upon demand. Fortunately, obliviators can be unreliable.
Ok (ex): Good, okay - pronunced oke.
Oldworld (adj): Relating to pre-numeracy, such as names, obsolete social structures, and antiques like teapots.
Optics (n): Eyes.
Planesphere (n): The Earth.
Pleadings (ex): Please.
Port (v): Come, go, move, eg "port yourself over here for a tick".
Probings (n): Questions.
Regrets (ex): Sorry.
Requiform (v): To make a request via a form, eg for a replacement for broken equipment.
Roid (n): Android (slang).

S - Z

Saturtock (n): Saturday.
See You Over (ex): Goodbye.
Sit (n): A chair.
Sunstart (n): Morning. Often used as a shortened form of the standard morning greating "efficient sunstart".
Tack (n): A unit of time, maybe equivalent to a second.
Tackit (n): A unit of time. According to the Lunatune, 72 Batch 19Y was batched a trillion tackits ago, but it's not clear what temporal perspective it is written from. If she was batched a trillion tackits before the start of the show, then a tackit is somewhat less than half a millisecond.
Tedium Oriented: Bored
Tick (n): A unit of time. Probably a minute, or at least of that order of magnitude.
Tiny Cat: Small tracked moon surface vehicle. Unlikely to be furry.
Tock (n): Formally, a unit of time probably equal to an hour. However, it is also used to substitute for the word "time" (eg "it's tocks for firstmunch" or "If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred tocks"), and in casual use can mean any amount of time from seconds to years ("I'll be there in a tock", "I did that yestertock"). If used with a number, the formal value probably applies. Depending on context, "9 tocks" could mean "9 hours" or "9 o'clock".
Tock End (n): The end of the day
Transitization (n): A form of teleportation in wide use. Transitizing is the standard means of access to a habiviron.
Ultimate (adj): Final.
Ultra (adj): very.
Unit group (n): The residents of a habiviron; functionally equivalent to a family.
Vend (v): Sell.
Visitation (n): An official visit, such as a bureaubeing inspection of a habiviron.
Yonk (n): A unit of time, probably on the order of a week or a month. Getting a new chair takes at least 5 yonks.
Zipclad (n): Purse.