Medireview

Origin

Accidentally coined by technicians designing the filters of Yahoo! Mail in 2001. To protect against a bug, the function eval (short for evaluate) was disabled by automatically replacing every instance of the string

eval

with the string

review

— theoretically synonymous (since eval in English could be short for evaluation). However, eval also got changed when it was a substring of words like medieval, and medireview was adopted because its roots and morphemes resemble real English compound words.

Full definition of medireview

Adjective

1. Form of erroneous, computer generated form
• 2001, Sahitya Akademi, Indian literature Chapter , ... with allusions to mythological characters and events, rituals and festivals, folk belief's and customs, and to philosophical concepts and schools, which collectively comprise a magisterial and encyclopeaedic vision of medireview Hindu culture.
• 2001, Guru Nanak Dev University, Journal of Sikh Studies Chapter , Lives of medireview Sikh martyrs like the Sahibzadas, Bhai Taru Singh, Bhai Mani Singh and others are projected as freedom fighters against medireview tyranny and oppressive rule of the Mughals in Punjab.
• 2006, Yoga Niketan, A Collection of Biographies of 4 Kriya Yoga Gurus by Swami Satyananda Giri Chapter , He deplored the medireview practice of covering oneself with a filigree of guru-talk and expressing excessive superiority through the blind belief that was prevalent.

Usage notes

Sometimes used for humorous effect, but usually due to insufficient copyediting. Appears most frequently in texts by non-native speakers (especially in Indian English).