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Living Language Phrase of the Week: Approximeeting

02.11.2007

approximeeting

–participle phrase
1. Getting together with one or more people by first arranging an approximate time or place and then firming up the details later on, usually via cell phone.

-approximeet, verb

Earliest Citation:

"Loose arrangements can be made in the knowledge that they can be firmed up at a later stage; people can be forewarned about late or early arrivals; arrangements to meet can be progressively refined. But this kind of flexibility — we can call it approximeeting — can also engender a new sense of insecurity. Everything is virtual until the parties, the places and the moments come together to make it real. In this context the person without a phone becomes something of a liability."


—Sadie Plant, "On the mobile: The effects of mobile telephones on social and individual life," Motorola Inc, October 28, 2001 (PDF)

 

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