He's fond of tracking the etymology of contemporary words, such as "indie" or "woke".
Paul Walsh's superb translation maintains Ibsen's straightforward, neat-as-a-pin (and occasionally dreary) exposition but puts believable contemporary words on the characters' Victorian lips.
It is a brash re-telling of Shakespeare's play in contemporary words — Mr. Kobekin derived the libretto from an unperformed play by Arkady Zastyrets — and music.
In the last century, the high-rise (a common contemporary word for buildings 12 or more stories high) became a common tool, made of concrete, to counter urban sprawl and social inequality.
The Rev. Al Sharpton was introduced recently at a church in Washington as "one who has a very profound, critical, true, genuine, real and contemporary word for the hip-hop generation".
The characters' contemporary words and voices emerge from their computer-generated images, while the 1982 scenes in Lebanon are based on their accounts and Mr. Folman's recollection and research.
"I am working on a dictionary of Siletz" — a critically endangered language native to Oregon — "and the community is having an interesting dialogue about contemporary words like 'computer.' Should they import it from the English or coin a phrase that means 'brain in a box'?" An app, however, can't replace the live transmission of a language to children at what Porter calls "the sponge time".
In this, Morozov's critique overlaps with a second significant contemporary word: "fragility".
This is, as the story goes, where the contemporary word "sincere" is derived: sin (Latin for 'without') + cera (Latin for 'wax').
Whereas his debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, Freewheelin represented the beginning of Dylan's writing contemporary words to traditional melodies.
