I had seen the #zuzai tag on mastodon a few times and had no idea what it was, but discovered a whole site dedicated to the new word. It’s pronounced like “zoo’s eye.” You might say an author uses a zuzai writing process, or a teacher requires a zuzai testing environment. Is it a little pretentious to set up a whole website to justify the weird, new retronym you just came up with in a fit of ennui? Maybe. But I like zuzai, it encapsulates something that currently takes a lot of words to otherwise explain, and I hope it worms its way into the public zeitgeist.

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    1 day ago

    Huh, I haven’t encountered it yet. The word makes me think of carnality, so yeah… I’m not gonna use it any time soon. Thanks, I’ll know what people are talking about in the future. 🙂

    I think that’s a little bit different though, that’s vegans having a name for another group they’re opposing. I find it similarly silly as zuzai though 😃