Open vs. Fauxpen

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 26, 2009 11:38 PM EDT
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Tristan Louis gives weight to new term that I like a lot: fauxpen. Faux in French means "false" or "fake". So fauxpen means fake open. There has always been a lot of that going around, but since the world of tech inevitably contains more of everything, there's more fauxpen stuff than ever.

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