The Word of the Day Thread
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@Vixen It was never going to be an exact match anyway.
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@hungrier This gif describes my job as a teacher.
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@boomzilla said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Pretty sure I mentioned autoantonym right near the top of this very thread
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Just encountered this one in a company email and was kind of shocked to find it in dictionaries:
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@boomzilla said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Just encountered this one in a company email and was kind of shocked to find it in dictionaries:
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/upskilling
I would bet that it's not in any pre-internet dictionaries.
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@jinpa I prefer this definition:
Permanent termination of
(a) an uninterruptible power supply, or
(b) a package delivery worker dressed in brown.
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@hungrier In addition to the financial and philatelic definitions given by Wiktionary and the general "commodities exchange" given in the linked Wikipedia article, bourse is used specifically to refer to the exchanges where wholesale diamonds are traded, such as in Antwerp, London, and Mumbai (the largest in the world; TIL).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread:
haboob
Great onebox, as usual.
A haboob (Arabic: هَبوب, romanized: habūb, lit. 'blasting/drifting') is a type of intense dust storm carried on an atmospheric gravity current, also known as a weather front. Haboobs occur regularly in dry land area regions throughout the world.
The word comes from Sudan, where they are reportedly more common than anywhere else on earth. I think meteorologists just wanted a chance to say "boob" in a serious forecast.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I think meteorologists just wanted a chance to say "boob" in a serious forecast.
Naturally.
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Not what I was expecting. Okay, I lie. What's the root-er word?
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@Tsaukpaetra According to Wiktionary, it comes from
ad-
(to) andalterare
(change, alter), and is the same root as adultery, but not adult (fromadolescere
meaning "grow up")
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Words of the day: besides, beside
@topspin said in COVID-19 CovidSim Model:which is besides the point
Besides almost fits here, according to Merriam-Webster's first definition:
But beside fits exactly, specifically, definition 2. Besides, "beside the point" is pretty much a set phrase, even if it didn't exactly make sense grammatically.
Besides and beside are synonymous in some usages, but not for "irrelevant" (or physical location).
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@HardwareGeek Thanks!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Word of the Day Thread:
And a specific subcategory: trichobezoar, also known as a "hairball".
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There haven't been any words of the day posted here for quite a while, but this will partially make up for that; there are quite a few obscure words in here. (Warning, though, the author actually defines only one of them.)
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@HardwareGeek It could be worse. The whole blog could have been written in Courier or something like…
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Reading about anacoluthon on Wikipedia
Thus spake the WikedPedo:
An anacoluthon is an unexpected discontinuity in the expression of ideas within a sentence, leading to a form of words in which there is logical incoherence of thought.
I really want to make a joke about a picture of a person illustrating the article, but this isn't the Garage.
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adj.- Afflicted with spavin: a spavined horse.
- Marked by damage, deterioration, or ruin: a junkyard of spavined cars.
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@boomzilla And, for those of us who are not horseologists, spavin is:
(Veterinary Science) vet science enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth (bony spavin) or fluid accumulation in the joint (bog spavin), usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
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@HardwareGeek said in The Word of the Day Thread:
There haven't been any words of the day posted here for quite a while, but this will partially make up for that; there are quite a few obscure words in here. (Warning, though, the author actually defines only one of them.)
A reasonable person, however, might also want to know why Judge Selya keeps comparing people to Rumpelstiltskin, or at least I certainly do. So let us explore that conundrum.
Spot on. I'm incredibly curious why a judge invoked an old fairy tale in court.
“Rumpelstiltskin,” of course, refers to Cornelius Rumpelstiltskin, the leader of Dutch resistance to Hapsburg rule during the Counter-Reformation.
What? Really? Not a mythical demon whose name is its most guarded secret?
Sorry, just checked my notes again. It actually refers to the famous fairy tale in which a man tells the king his daughter can spin straw into gold.
Haha, fuck you too, fucking idiot.
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@dkf said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@HardwareGeek It could be worse. The whole blog could have been written in Courier or something like…
A friend of mine who claimed to be dyslexic swore by Courier. He couldn't read dark mode themes either.
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Prepone. It's exactly what you think it means.
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@Tsaukpaetra
From https://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-“prepone”-a-word/ :The word prepone to mean "to move forward in time," is a word coined by English speakers in India.
"English"
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@HardwareGeek Revert back to me when language stops changing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@HardwareGeek Revert back to me when language stops changing.
So, never, then.
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@Arantor Good. "Revert back to me" is a thing you should never do.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Prepone. It's exactly what you think it means.
To prepare a cold one?
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I mean, it is sort of logical, if postpone is to move something back, prepone to move it forwards. Especially given the etymology of the thing, though I could have seen an argument for something like “antepone” too for the same reason.
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@Arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
antepone
Word of the day:
Now to battle for promiscuity!
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@Tsaukpaetra antepone wins by virtue of not being the product of linguistic bastardry.
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Antelope + synthepone = antepone.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Antelope + synthepone = antepone.
You dropped these bits: synthelope?
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The comments were made while he spruiked the latest episode of his podcast,
Ah, helpful embed.
1.Australian informal Speak in public, especially to advertise a show.
1.1Promote or publicize.
‘the company forked out $15 million to spruik its digital revolution’Good, another useless embed. Well done.
archaic slang Austral to speak in public (used esp of a showman or salesman)
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If the embeds were actually helpful you wouldn’t have a reason to visit the site and maybe see an ad or two.
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@HardwareGeek yes but they don't know that, do they? Their thinking is simply 'if we make it so people never have a reason to actually see the ads, this is just costing us to educate the world'... if there's a chance that people will actually go to the site, that's their rationale.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
visit the site and maybe see an ad or two.
No.
:@blakeygreta:
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@Jaloopa said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Pretty sure I mentioned autoantonym right near the top of this very thread
So, definitely not in the rapidly shrinking L2 cache.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
antepone
Word of the day:
ante = "before"
pone = (corn-)bread
∴
antepone = dough (especially some made with cornmeal)
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