xeroxloreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

xeroxlore (uncountable)

1. Synonym of photocopylore (“a kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban legends that are reproduced on xerox machines (photocopiers)”).
   • 1980, Gershon Legman, The New Limerick

     […] the word's protean expressiveness has been observed in a xeroxlore item printed in Robert Anton Wilson's Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words […]

   • 1995, Indiana University, Journal of folklore research (volume 32)

     I did some of my research on xeroxlore, or photocopylore, in a textile dyeing plant of about 250 people.

   • 1996, Gail de Vos, “Science, Technology, and the Contemporary Legend”, in Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature in Grades 7–12, Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-56308-190-3, part III, page 120:

     Both Xeroxlore and faxlore have an increasing emphasis of visual material: / [It may be] a characteristic of both the increasingly visual sophistication of youth in our society and the capacities of the fax machine which sends images rather than alphanumeric messages; […]

同意語

• copylore
• photocopylore

等位語

• faxlore