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title: "New Words"
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description: "New words and phrases coined by Tito Dutta to describe ideas, behaviours, relationships, and experiences that may benefit from having a name."
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**New Words** or **New Phrases** are words or expressions we have coined on The Sunil Abraham Project (TSAP) to describe ideas, behaviours, relationships, or experiences that may not have an established or convenient name. This page documents words and phrases coined from personal experiences, observations, and reflections, with the intention that some may prove useful beyond their original context.

The words and phrases on this page are not necessarily intended to be definitive or universally applicable. They are attempts to give names to things that we have noticed, experienced, or found difficult to describe concisely.

**Note:** This page will be gradually expanded as we add new words.


## Confriends {#confriends}

**Confriends** or **Con-friends** are people with whom one has a friendly relationship primarily within the context of conferences, events, or similar gatherings.

They may not communicate regularly outside these occasions, and there may sometimes be very little effort or interest in maintaining the connection between events. They may not particularly care to know how the other person is doing, what they have been doing, or what has happened in their life, except when they meet again at a conference or similar event.

Yet, when they meet again, the relationship can immediately feel warm and familiar.

A typical conversation may begin with questions such as:

> "How have you been?"

> "Where have you been all these days?"

> "What have you been doing?"

The relationship is therefore largely context-dependent and may be described as a purposeful relationship: the connection exists and can be meaningful, but primarily within the particular setting in which the people meet.

Confriends are not necessarily "fake friends" or lesser friends. The word describes the context and pattern of the relationship, rather than its emotional value.

## SnipSkip {#snipskip}

**SnipSkip** or **SnippSkip** is the act of seeing a message notification or message snippet and deliberately choosing not to open the message, so that the message is not marked as seen or does not trigger a read receipt.

The word refers to the practice of seeing only the small snippet of a message that appears in a notification and then skipping the message itself.