Is the word “Galapagos” transferable into adjective and verb to mean “outdated, fossilized” in English?

We have a word “Gala-kei-ガラ携” which is an abbreviation of “Galapagos (shortened as Gala” and “mobile phone (shortened as “Kei”) meaning outdated mobile phone as opposed to advanced smart-phones in Japanese. We also call a person who sticks to old way of thinking “Galapagosu jin –ガラパゴス人.” Jin means people.

I heard in this site that most nouns can be used as a verb as well. For instance, an aggressive restaurant waitress retorts the patron by snapping back "Don't you 'young lady' me, smart guy," to the patron's growl,"You listen to me young lady," in the episode (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/06/lunch-at-gitlitzs.html) in the New Yorker magazine I quoted in my previous post, "What does “There she blows’” mean?"

Is the word “galapagos” transferable into adjective (e.g. galapagos mind-set) and verb (e.g. galapagosize) in English to mean “outdated” or "anachronistic" in the same way as ‘fossil’ verbalized into ‘fossilize’?

If it’s not transferable, what would it be the equivalent English word to “Garakei,” Garapagosu jin” and “Garapagostic bigotory?


In English the word most matching your usage is

Dinosaur

  1. a fossil reptile of the Mesozoic era, often reaching an enormous size.

  2. a person or thing that is outdated or has become obsolete because of failure to adapt to changing circumstances.

For example

  • I love my dinosaur phone

    The real reason I haven’t upgraded my phone – even though it would be convenient, even though everyone else has, even though smartphones are really incredibly cool and aesthetically pleasing and goddamn I love fingerprinting technology ... is that I don’t really need to.

  • The Office Phone Is Not a Dinosaur.

    Office phones really are very much in use even if many of us also have a cell phone at work.

  • MAKING THE SWITCH: 9 SIGNS IT’S TIME TO UPGRADE YOUR PHONE

    Some people like to have the latest and greatest technology when it comes to cell phones, but others are perfectly content to use their old phones until they go obsolete. If you're on the latter end, take a look at these 9 signs that it's time to upgrade your phone. After all, you can't use your 'dinosaur' phone forever..

Other usage

  • Bitcoin Is a High-Tech Dinosaur Soon to Be Extinct

    Bitcoin is the future, they tell us; it heralds a future where private, stateless currencies will dethrone the dollar and other monetary dinosaurs.
    Sorry, but Bitcoin isn’t the future. If anything, it’s a throwback to an earlier era, when private currencies circulated alongside government-sponsored money. I

  • I've never spent a lot of time on Java before; I'm such a dinosaur that my studies preceded the Java craze


The short answer is no, I don't know of any English verb/adjective form of Galápagos - and when used as a noun, it's almost always referring to the geographic location. But there are plenty of other adjectives we can use to describe outdated things.

If you describe your phone as antique, dated, obsolete, or ancient, it conveys the idea that your phone is old, outdated, and should be replaced with a newer model. You can also use the term vintage, but that implies more of a positive connotation. (The owner of a "vintage phone" might be proud of how old it is and thus refuses to upgrade.)

For a more humorous effect, you can call your phone prehistoric or primordial - which aren't meant to be taken literally, but can be used to imply the phone is absurdly outdated. (Similar to dinosaur as previously mentioned)