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jansch commented on the word Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Cited by the New York Times (12/6/09) as a military expression indicating a non-plussed response. The individual words are elements of the NATO phonetic alphabet and represent the letters WTF, which in this context stand for "What the Fuck?"
December 8, 2009
jansch commented on the word auratic
Having to do with an aura. A term of art criticism coined c. 1930 by Walter Benjamin (originally in German: auratisch). The quality arises not from the object in itself, but from the way it is seen, and thus the meaning is close to that of "archetypal." A thing is auratic not for any inherent qualities of its own but because it is perceived as the center of hundreds of other gazes.
December 8, 2009