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Adorable words

Yesterday I posted about some despicable words – to counterbalance those, here are a couple of adorable terms for you!

Word Spy introduces us to Skype Sleep:

v. To create a Skype connection with a faraway partner and then fall asleep together.
—Skype sleeping pp.

Its earliest use is from late 2010, in the Urban Dictionary.

An associated term is ambient Skype, the practice of leaving a Skype connection open without using it for a conversation.

For the first time in my life I used a Skype video call with my wife today as an ambient backdrop to life, rather than just as tool for having a conversation. I’d always wanted to try it, ever since hearing my friend and colleague Dave Newbold mention, in a presentation he was giving a couple of years ago about the near future for technology and social interaction, something he’d heard described as ‘ambient Skype’, whereby people leave a voice client running in the background while they are away from home as a way of being almost-there.
—Roo Reynolds, “Ambient Skype,” Roo Reynolds – What’s Next?,” March 12, 2008

See? Adorable!