FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

English: to 404, v -1) to “draw a blank” in a conversation; 2) to go missing on social media (based on Error 404 in an online search). This innovation exemplifies the tendency of ‘cyberspeak’ to verbalize and hybridize other semiotic systems and to incorporate digital imagery into everyday discourse. https://www.lexonomy.eu/?#cyberspeak2;

Ukrainian: затридні, n – a failed ambitious plan (the neologism is a univerbation of a phrase ‘in three days’, originated from a plan to overtake the city of Kyiv in a blietzkrieg at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine). https://armyinform.com.ua/2022/07/20/armiyainform-predstavlyaye-slovnyk-neologizmiv-ukrayinskoyi-movy/

Professor Rusudan Makhachashvili is Doctor Habilitated, Full Professor, English and Spanish major, Head of Germanic Philology Department of Borys Grinchenko Kiyv Metropolitan University, Ukraine. Editor in Chief of the Journal “Synopsis: Text. Context. Media”. Main academic interests: neology and cyberterminology of European languages, interdisciplinary studies in linguistics, digital linguistics. Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (Advanced Digital Skills) Project Evaluation Expert for the European Commission. Founding Member of the International Association for Transdisciplinary Education; Member of the Digital Humanism Initiative. Seminal published works in neology: Linguophilosophiс Parameters of English Innovations in Technosphere (Cambridge, UK 2015), Models and Digital Diagnostics Tools for the Innovative Polylingual Logosphere of Computer Being Dynamics (Peter Lang, Berlin, 2020).