Word of the Day

profluent - The first imaginary word in our series of words, this is the newspeak replacement for confluent. It means flowing together!

Why newspeak so soon? It was bound to come out sooner or later, I am reading "Get Ahead by Going Abroad: A Woman's Guide to Fast-track Career Success." A woman's guide, which clearly men are not allowed to read! OK, I'm actually quite sure that's not what the author meant when she chose that for a title.

Patricia Kranz, who is cited as one of the primary sources for this book, says: "As a journalist I sometimes found it useful that the Russians never considered women to have powerful jobs—you could blend into the scenery more and hear things maybe they didn't want you to hear or see things they didn't want you to see."

I'm a little bit surprised to hear a powerful woman pleased to be referring to herself as scenery here, but be sure there is some truth to what she's saying! As for the paranoia in her sentiment, it's not really any surprise to have paranoid thoughts coming out of the mouth of a journalist... especially one working in New York International Business news!