The Word of the Day Thread
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cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish
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@Unperverted-Vixen said in Advantage to rebasing a file?:
cudgel
cudgel (kŭjˈəl) n. A short heavy stick; a club. v. To beat or strike with or as if with a cudgel.
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@hungrier said in April Bugs Day:
boomzilification
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@Zecc
Amazing how close that word is to vilification
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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lalochezia
lalochezia[ lăl′ō-kē′zē-ə ]
n.
Emotional relief gained by using indecent or vulgar language.
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@boomzilla said in Florida Man goes to...:
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A Feis (Irish pronunciation: [fʲɛʃ]) or Fèis (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [feːʃ]) is a traditional Gaelic arts and culture festival. The plural forms are feiseanna (Irish: [ˈfʲɛʃənə]) and fèisean (Scottish Gaelic: [ˈfeːʃən]). The term "feis" is commonly used referring to Irish dance competitions and, in Scotland, to immersive teaching courses, specialising in traditional music and culture. In Scottish Gaelic, the accent is important because there is a difference of meaning and pronunciation between 'feis' and 'fèis' - the word 'feis' means sexual intercourse[1],[2].
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
National Spelling Bee ran out of words
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/national-spelling-bee-champions.html
Eight words today — the eight winning words from the spelling bee. Most of them I'd never even heard of:
Rishik Gandhasri, 13, of San Jose, Calif.: auslaut.
Erin Howard, 14, of Huntsville, Ala.: erysipelas.
Saketh Sundar, 13, of Clarksville, Md.: bougainvillea.
Shruthika Padhy, 13, of Cherry Hill, N.J.: aiguillette.
Sohum Sukhatankar, 13, of Dallas: pendeloque.
Abhijay Kodali, 12, of Flower Mound, Tex.: palama.
Christopher Serrao, 13, of Whitehouse Station, N.J.: cernuous.
Rohan Raja, 13, of Irving, Tex: odylic.
This one is so obscure, the dictionary.com entry doesn't even define it; it defines odyl instead, which it defines simply as od. Combining that definition with the -ic suffix, we get something likeOf or related to a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
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Who spells better: a bunch of kids, or a spellchecker built by the biggest internet advertising company?
@HardwareGeek said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Rishik Gandhasri, 13, of San Jose, Calif.:
auslaut.
Erin Howard, 14, of Huntsville, Ala.: erysipelas.
Saketh Sundar, 13, of Clarksville, Md.: bougainvillea.
Shruthika Padhy, 13, of Cherry Hill, N.J.:aiguillette.
Sohum Sukhatankar, 13, of Dallas:pendeloque.
Abhijay Kodali, 12, of Flower Mound, Tex.:palama.
Christopher Serrao, 13, of Whitehouse Station, N.J.:cernuous.
Rohan Raja, 13, of Irving, Tex:odylic.
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@boomzilla A fool can ask more than three wise men can answer.
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boomzilla A fool can ask more than three wise men can answer.
A fool or a four-year-old.
Seriously...I started answering "because purple" to all the "why <X>?" questions from my nephew when I lived at home. It really pissed him off, too. Which was fun to watch.
Why is the sky blue?
And not because purple!
: Because chartreuse?
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hmm... this thread intrigues me....
has @error never thought to include a module for his bot that posts the OED's word of the day here?
hashtag shower thots
... or is it thoughts...... man human spelling is getting increasingly confusing! Y'all keep inventing new words and new spellings of old words and new meanings for old words! How's a fox to keep up?!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Why is the sky blue?
well because of the specific makeup of our air it tends to absorb longer wavelengths of visible light and re-emit those as even lower wavelengths, and there's refraction that bends light that grazes the earth and does it more to the longer wavelengths, and then there's the dust and water vapor in our atmosphere mucking with things.... Really it's an incredibly complex thing that we still cannot fully explain with concrete equations as the ratios of affect from the various effects that lead to the sky being blue are constantly changing all the time. That's why if you look real carefully the sky isn't the exact same share of blue all day every day. it varies a bit all the time!
but TL;DR version, the peak for the color of the sky is actually in the purple/ultraviolet light range most of the time, but our eyes aren't real great at seeing violet light, and can't see ultraviolet under most circumstances. That wouldn't be a problem if the peak were a lot narrower than it is though because there wouldn't be that much blue light to see in the sky.... but the peak's acutally pretty wide, so there's a lot of blue light in it, and since we can see that really well, and can't see violet as well, and can barely see ultraviolet.... the sky looks blue. Because our brains are made of meat and are easy to trick like that.
and if the TL;DR reason is still to long for you........ the sky is blue because that's the color the Flying Spaghetti Monster what created it wanted it to be.
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@Vixen But then why is grass green?
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen But then why is grass green?
It was on the other side.
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen But then why is grass green?
because the photosynthesis process used by the chloroplasts in most of our plant life absorbs both blue and red wavelengths of visible light to complete the photosynthetic cycle. there are other photosynthetic processes that absorb different wavelengths of light, and if a plant used all of them then it would be effectively black. Except that it would also be dead. because those other photosynthetic processes aren't compatible with each other, so would have to be carefully kept apart. and a black plant would also absorb far too much heat for its own good and would either have to have much less surface area on its leaves (reducing the area for photosynthesis) or replace its leaves often as they get burned (a rather energy intensive process)
So you generally see plants use one, or sometimes two different forms of photosynthesis, and because the one that results in a green coloration is the most efficient one (in the absence of oxygen, which really throws a monkey wrench into the process) it was the one most plant life evolved to use. Then they turned our CO2 and N2 atmosphere into a CO2 O2 and N2 mix with a high enough O2 concentration that it caused problems for the green form of photosynthesis. that's why some plants have started using red types of photosynthesis which aren't so problematic. but most of the other plants just ended up increasing their resistance to free oxygen radicals and get along okay. Our oxygen concentration would have to go a lot higher than it was even in the carboniferous period for the green type of photosynthesis to not be a net gain of energy (even with all the energy used on the antioxidant stuff)
so yeah. they're green because one quirk of chemistry and a common ancestor of most of our plants we have today going all in on this whole green photosynthesis stuff.
also because.... DAGNABIT ZECC! I WAS TYPING THE SCIENCE WHEN YOU STOLE MY JOKE!
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@Vixen But why is water blue in drawings but not really?
Why is the sun yellow in drawings but really it just hurts your eyes?
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
But why is water blue in drawings but not really?
because large bodies of water often appear blue from a distance because of reflections of the sky and the same sort of light scattering type effects that the sky has. Also because narrative tropes in art cause the color blue when applied to the "land" part of a landscape to be a short hand for "water"
@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Why is the sun yellow in drawings but really it just hurts your eyes?
Because it is yellow. It's just really really really bright so if you try to look at it directly it will burn your eyes and cause you quite a bit of discomfort, ne pain. so don't look directly at the sun.... your optometrist will thank you.
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@Vixen Why can't I have another candy?
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen Why can't I have another candy?
Because i ate them all and it's your turn to go to the store and buy more.
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protests
protests more
goes off to the shop
puts down a big bucket of salty liquorice
You owe me €5 for your half.
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
protests
protests more
goes off to the shop
puts down a big bucket of salty liquorice
You owe me €5 for your half.
for liquorice?! no deal! you can have it all!
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@Vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
protests
protests more
goes off to the shop
puts down a big bucket of salty liquorice
You owe me €5 for your half.
for liquorice?! no deal! you can have it all!
Comes back to an empty bucket
WHO STOLE MY LIQUORICE!
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
protests
protests more
goes off to the shop
puts down a big bucket of salty liquorice
You owe me €5 for your half.
for liquorice?! no deal! you can have it all!
Comes back to an empty bucket
WHO STOLE MY LIQUORICE!
you did. you're holding the empty bag, and there's a strip hanging out of the corner of your mouth. doesn't exactly take rocket science to figure out what happened.
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
liquorice
While I've never spelled licorice like this...I have an affinity for the letter Q. Usqually, Iq justq adqd qthem gratuqitouqsly.
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@Karla If the candy actually contained booze it might not be so bad
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@Karla said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
liquorice
While I've never spelled licorice like this...I have an affinity for the letter Q. Usqually, Iq justq adqd qthem gratuqitouqsly.
I wasn't sure and that's what my spill chucker came up with.
I usually just call it drop.
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@PleegWat Google turned up some liquor with licorice flavour, does that count?
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@PleegWat I think ouzo is anise based as well
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@hungrier said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Karla If the candy actually contained booze it might not be so bad
Try Sambuka
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@Zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
WHO STOLE MY LIQUOR ICE!
Your kerning is terrible.
I just supply the letters. Kerning problems must be with your machine.
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@Vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
has @error never thought to include a module for his bot that posts the OED's word of the day here?
Considering I didn't know about this thread? No.
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@error said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
has @error never thought to include a module for his bot that posts the OED's word of the day here?
Considering I didn't know about this thread? No.
if I asked that question again now.... would your answer change? ;-P
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@error said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
would your answer change?
Yes, it would.
HAPPY DANCE!
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@Vixen How do you know the change isn't from FILE_NOT_FOUND to no?
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen How do you know the change isn't from FILE_NOT_FOUND to no?
i don't.
but i have optimistic hope.
...... you're going to ask me if i'm new here..... or if it's my first time here..... or something like that, aren't you?
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@Vixen I believe everyone should have a shot at that greatest of all treasures, called hope. Not necessarily the chance of getting what you want, but at least hope.
I'm butchering that quote aren't I?
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I'm butchering that quote aren't I?
that depends.... are you trying to quote Vetinari?
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
hope
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@Vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I'm butchering that quote aren't I?
that depends.... are you trying to quote Vetinari?
Yes. And to fetch the book.
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@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I'm butchering that quote aren't I?
that depends.... are you trying to quote Vetinari?
Yes. And to fetch the book.
in that case you're close enough to the quote for my book. not right on, but close enough....
and really everyone should read Going Postal anyway.