Lost in Translation

Mega Connect :-

• The word "P" first appeared in English in 1607 in a Thomas Middleton play entitled Your Five Gallants."P" is believed to have stemmed from the French infinitive meaning to dress up elegantly.In the 18th and 19th centuries, "P" was commonly used to refer to informers. "P" can also mean "a despicable person".In the first years of the 21st century, a new meaning of "P" has emerged in the form of a transitive verb , which means "to decorate" or "to gussyup". This new definition was made popular by " "P" My Ride ", an MTV television show Although this new definition paid homage to hip-hop culture and its connection to street culture, "P" has now entered common, even mainstream commercial, use.In medical contexts, "P" means "to ask (a student) a question for the purpose of testing his knowledge".In the US military, "P" can be used to express a superior reminding a subordinate of a task that the subordinate forgot to accomplish. The main use of the word  "P" is for a a procurer, colloquially called a "P"(if male) or a madam (if female), is an agent for nymphos who collects part of their earnings. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where the nymphos may engage clients

• We are all familiar with those unnatural, robot-pitched, synthetic voices coming out of singers over the last 10 years or so. So much so that we've coined a term "Q" for it ."Q" describes a “singer” whose off-key inaccuracies, and out of tune mistakes, have been digitally disguised so that it appears to perform perfectly.Noun form of "Q" means an audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies, which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances through use of a phase vocoder. "Q" as originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowing vocal tracks to be perfectly tuned despite originally being slightly off-key.

• A "R" is a situation that involves losing one quality or aspect of something in return for gaining another quality or aspect. "R" often implies a decision to be made with full comprehension of both the upside and downside of a particular choice; "R" is also used in an evolutionary context, in which case the selection process acts as the "decision-maker".In economics "R" is expressed as opportunity cost, referring to the most preferred alternative given up. "R", then, involves a sacrifice that must be made to obtain a certain product, rather than other products that can be made using the same required resources. In computer science, "R" are viewed as a tool of the trade. A program can often run faster if it uses more memory. Consider the following examples:

1. By compressing an image, you can reduce transmission time/costs at the expense of CPU time to perform the compression and decompression.
2. By using a lookup table, you may be able to reduce CPU time at the expense of space to hold the table, e.g. to determine the parity of a byte you can either look at each bit individually (using shifts and masks), or use a 256-entry table giving the parity for each possible bit-pattern, or combine the upper and lower nibbles and use a 16-entry table.
3. For some situations (e.g. string manipulation), a compiler may be able to use inline code for greater speed, or call run-time routines for reduced memory; the user of the compiler should be able to indicate whether speed or space is more important.

          In medicine, patients and physicians are often faced with difficult decisions involving "R". One example is localized prostate cancer where patients need to weigh the possibility of a prolonged life expectancy against possible stressful treatment side-effects

• "S" is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages, especially advertising, indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of "S" is e-mail "S", the term is applied to similar abuses in other media:

1. Instant messaging "S"
2. Usenet newsgroup "S", 
3. Web search engine "S",
4. "S" in blogs, 
5. Wiki "S",
6. Online classified ads "S", 
7. Mobile phone messaging "S", 
8. Internet forum "S", 
9. Junk fax transmissions,
10. Social networking "S", 
11. Social "S", television advertising 
12. and File sharing "S". 

          It is named for  "S" , a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is  included in almost every dish.  A 2011 Cisco Systems survey shows  "S" volume originating from countries worldwide in Which India stands first with a Percentage of  13.9 "S"  volume of the world.

• "T" was Coined by editor Dave Carnie to describe the kind of relationships that develop between skaters who spend a great deal of time together it is defined as a form of homosocial intimacy between two or more men."T" is also a portmanteau of two words.The regular use of the term "T" was propelled into the lexicon during Big Brother 7 (U.S.), when contestants Will Kirby and Mike Malin referred to their "T" throughout the show and popularized the term. The contemporary circumstances of "T" separate it from more general homosocial practices and historic romantic friendships.Aristotle's classical description of friendship is often taken to be the prototype of the "T"  He wrote around 330 BC, "It is those who desire the good of their friends for the friends' sake that are most truly friends, because each loves the other for what he is, and not for any incidental quality".

• A "U" is the physical gesture of placing one's hand flat across one's face or lowering one's face into one's hand or hands. The gesture "U" is found in many cultures as a display of frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, shock, surprise or sarcasm.This gesture "U" is not unique to humans. A group of mandrills at the Colchester Zoo has adopted a similar gesture to signal the desire to avoid social interaction or to be left alone.An example of U's use in popular culture is seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation series, where Jean-Luc Picard repeatedly expressed frustration using this gesture. Double and triple "U" were also observed, becoming it into an internet Meme.

• "V" (loanword from German) is a style of mass-produced art or design using cultural icons. The term "V" is generally reserved for unsubstantial or gaudy works, or works that are calculated to have popular appeal.The concept of "V" is applied to artwork that was a response to the 19th-century art with aesthetics that convey exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama, hence,"V" art is closely associated with sentimental art.As a descriptive term, "V" originated in the art markets of Munich in the 1860s and the 1870s, describing cheap, popular, and marketable pictures and sketches. In Das Buch vom "V"(The Book of "V"), Hans Reinman defines "V" as a professional expression “born in a painter's studio”.

• "X"  is jargon or especially convoluted language that results in it being excessively hard to understand or even incomprehensible. "Officialese" or "bureaucratese" is one form of "X"  There are two distinct and opposite cases. One is that incomprehensible material is actual gibberish. In the other some obscure material is either ineptly presented or is subjectively perceived to be gibberish due to a lack of preparation. According to Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words website the word "X" was first coined on 21 May 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas. His comments, recorded in the New York Times Magazine, were made when Maverick was the Democratic chairman of the US Congress Smaller War Plants Committee. He was being critical of the obscure language used by other committee members. The allusion was to a turkey, “always gobbledy gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity.” Contemporary reports, as shown by a United Press dispatch published in the Pittsburgh Press, identify the date of Maverick's statement as March 31.Maverick's message includes the following sentence: "Stay off the "X" language. It only fouls people up."

• "Y" means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; a fortunate mistake. Specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it.The first noted use of "Y" in the English language was by Horace Walpole (1717–1797). In a letter to Horace Mann (dated 28 January 1754) he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of "Y", whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of". The name stems from "Y", an old name for Sri Lanka (aka Ceylon), from Arabic Sarandib. Parts of Sri Lanka were under the rule of South Indian kings for extended periods of time in history. Kings of Kerala, India (Cheranadu)were called Chera Kings and dheep means island, the island belonging to Chera King was called Cherandeep, hence called "Y" by Arab traders.

• In cricket, a "Z" is a type of delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. "Z" is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey), an eponym in honour of its inventor Bernard Bosanquet. It can also be described, colloquially, as a wrong'un. "Z" is a major weapon in the arsenal of a leg spin bowler, and can be one of the bowler’s most effective wicket-taking balls. It is used infrequently, because its effectiveness comes mostly from its surprise value. The term  "Z" is so peculiar to the English language that the Wikipedia article about is not available in any other language. If it were to be translated to a language like, perhaps, Spanish the word would come out like: “Tiro de Cricket curvado hecho por un tirador con la derecha.” or Curved Cricket shot made by a bowler with its right hand.

Connect P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,X,Y and Z

Answer (highlight to read) : "P" - Pimp "Q" - Auto-Tuned  "R" - Trade-Off  "S" - Spam "T"- Bromance 

"U" - Face Palm  "V" - Kitsch "X"- Gobbledygook "Y" - Serendipity and "Z" - Googly

and the Connect is These words have been voted  the top ten hardest English words to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company