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Aug 26, 2018 18:42
6 yrs ago
Swedish term

Neo–aktoritära

Swedish to English Bus/Financial Economics
Hello

Oh boy

I had

***Neo–aktoritära*** stater och globala företag

and I took Neo–aktoritära to be a typo for Neo-auktoritära, especially as the speaker goes on to talk about authoritarian and autocratic states.

But the problem is that the "typo" [???] occurs a bit too often as in:

Den auktoritära modell som Maduro anammat är välkänd och kallas den ***”neo–aktoritära staten”. ***

or

***Neo–aktoritärerna*** måste stävjas där de är ömtåligast, intäktströmmarna från korrumperade företag till politiken.

So I think the writer has invented a word, a cross between "auktoritär" (authoritarian) and "aktoritär" (actor-like)

This could be explained by the fact that this potted history is of one company against a social and political backdrop, but kind of intertwined with one having an effect on the other.

Politics effects companies but companies effect politics too.

Okay, so that's the context and my take on it but I would appreciate a second (and more) opinions and help please.

Typo? play on words? real word that I can't find in a dictionary?

Thanks
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Discussion

SafeTex (asker) Aug 26, 2018:
@all Thanks. It's true that one sentence doesn't make much sense with my interpretation but it's strange that he can get the word right and wrong in the same sentence.
Also in English and French (cos I live in France), the pronunciations would be pretty different whereas that is not the case according to Agneta in Swedish. So a typo based on similar pronunciation is more likely than I imagined.
Thanks all
Agneta Pallinder Aug 26, 2018:
Agree with Tim and Anders I definitely believe this is a typo. Most people would pronounce "auktoritär" as "aktoritär" anyway (I'm sure I do), and from there it is but a short step to writing the wrong version.
Anders Ericsson Aug 26, 2018:
... "aktoritarian" as a coined word with "act" as a connotation is also very farfetched, as "act" is english. In swedish "act" would be "(skåde)spela" in the case of acting in the sense of a movie star, or "agera" in the case of acting in the sense of "taking action". So, you can forget about the act-aktoritär.
Anders Ericsson Aug 26, 2018:
On a simple googling I get 1 070 hits on "aktoritär" vs 129 000 hits on "auktoritär". I think all "aktoritär" is typos or people who does not know how to spell it correctly. It starts with the "au" diphthong, which often becomes "a" spoken language, it differs a bit between different regions. The south is rich on diphthongs, but they are very much absent in "standard" swedish. You can compare with "resturang" which is a common misspelling of "restaurang", when I google "resturang" I get 625 000 hits, it even has a wiktionary-entry (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resturang). So, yeah, I'm quite sure it is a typo, and I can't imagine it has anything with "act" to do. If it would, it would be so esoteric that no-one would understand it anyway.
SafeTex (asker) Aug 26, 2018:
@Tim and Anders Hello

I must have copied the word wrongly when I did a search cos now I'm getting hits. Can't find a definition but it does occur on Internet enough to make me think it's not a typo.
I think my first idea was correct
Someone who insists on being an actor, not authoritarian but not someone who is passive either
So maybe "actoritarian" but that does not seem to be a word in English really even though you can find it in nicknames etc.
Tim Kynerd Aug 26, 2018:
Typo I agree with Anders. It's most likely some kind of automated repetition of a typo.
Anders Ericsson Aug 26, 2018:
I believe it is a typo. That it occurs repeatedly can be due to either an incorrect search and replace and/or that during a spell check the person doesn't spot that there is an actual typo in the first instance (thinking it the spell checker reacts on the combination "neo" and "auktoritär") and therefore "ignore all" or add the incorrect term to the dictionary so later instances are not flagged.
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