A.Word.A.Day--gamification

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Mar 14, 2019

This week’s theme
Words that have entered the language during the last 25 years

This week’s words
upcycling
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gamification

Gamification Sartre Way

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

gamification

PRONUNCIATION:

(gay-mi-fi-KAY-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun: The application of game-related elements to an activity to make it more engaging.

ETYMOLOGY:

From game, from Old English gaman (entertainment) + -fication (making), from facere (to do or make). Earliest documented use: 2008.

NOTES:

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USAGE:

“Part of its approach involves gamification -- necessary, Neoma says, to hold those wandering minds.”
Helen Barrett; The Gamified Generation Has Hit Business School; Financial Times (London, UK); Sep 10, 2018.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)

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