Today has been a little less quiet at work than yesterday, so it took me a bit longer to find the candidates for the Word of the Day. But, here goes !
- 'schoonheidsindustrie' (beauty industry). This includes, apparently, everything from hairdressers to beauty salons to plastic surgeons. Chinese folks are getting more and more wealthy (says the newspaper article I'm looking at) and they consequently all go and 'improve' themselves. A scary thought in its own right - people who en masse obsess about their looks enough to put in such efforts, I wasn't so much scared of which nationality they have, mind you - and when you can speak of a 'beauty industry', I'm nominating this word.
- 'stoplichtenvandaal' (traffic lights vandal). It's just a useless word that could easily be replaced by a term of two or three *existing* words.
- 'hulpstroom' - this one's hard to translate, because the way it's used in the context it means 'stream of help' (it's related to the second tsunami), but in Dutch it can just as easily mean 'assisting electricity' in lack of a good translation. Either way, I don't think we require this word and it's way too confusing.
- 'gentechlandbouw' (gen(etic) tech(nology) agriculture). Hip hype word. It looks stupid in all it's forced brevity.
- 'schuldsaneringsregeling' (debt purging arrangement). I'm not entirely sure, but I think that's today's ultimate scrabble word. Except it's not in the dictionary. No points, folks. Put 'm back on your slate.
- 'superbelegger' (super investor). It's a bird, it's a plane.. no wait, it's a company that's buying up all our stocks !!
And the Word of the Day is... 'gentechlandbouw' !
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