The Word of the Day Thread
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See cat for details.
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TIL. I had no idea there would even be a word for that.
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@cursorkeys said in The Word of the Day Thread:
TIL. I had no idea there would even be a word for that.
From the Latin currer "to run", from which we get such words as "current", "occur", "recur", "recurse", "course", "recourse", "cursive", "recursive", "recursion", and "cursor".
And now you know that the little icon that is controlled by the mouse is called a "runner".
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@djls45 said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Word of the Day Thread:
TIL. I had no idea there would even be a word for that.
From the Latin currer "to run", from which we get such words as "current", "occur", "recur", "recurse", "course", "recourse", "cursive", "recursive", and "cursor".
And now you know that the little icon that is controlled by the mouse is called a "runner".
Thank you, that's fascinating. I love Etymology. I should really know that as I did Latin at College, I think most of it leaked straight back out unfortunately.
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Worth $130m that fellah, and you can see why.
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@zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Wow, 2009. Where are people finding these ancient videos?!??
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@tsaukpaetra I found it on YouTube.
Also, I've used "persiflage" upthread, but I didn't link to the definition, so I'm not calling .
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Did we do Sonder yet? NodeBB search turned up 0 results.
sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
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@boner Reminds me of
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No "See the full definition ". The full definition is "stain". Know the word "stain" (as a verb)? "Imbrue" means the same thing.
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@dkf said in Screenshot yourself or your garden IRL thread (and/or measure someone's green peen!):
@luhmann said in Screenshot yourself or your garden IRL thread (and/or measure someone's green peen!):
Are you claiming PJH should also mimic the pixilated effect?
TIL.
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@zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
TIL.
Also means “Drunk” but the onebox doesn't include that minor definition.
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Disemvowel, (v) By analogy with disembowel, to disemvowel is to remove the vowels from a word. For example to disemvowel
accalia
would result inccl
andUOIAUAI
would become
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@accalia TIL
I understand it's the main pass time for the residents of Ysbyty Ystwyth.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@accalia TIL
as i understand it it's a word coined by Matt Groening in the ninties....
it is a fun word.
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See also
From
Threshold, doorway, limit
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jbojevysofkemsuzgugje'ake'eborkemfaipaltrusi'oke'ekemgubyseltru
x1 reflects Lojbanic Soviet Federative Socialist Republic culture / nationality / community in aspect x2
cf. lojbo je softo ke su'o gugde jecta ke'e bo fatri prali turni sidbo gubni and se
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besto
x1 dons metaphorical asbestos suit x2 to guard against flames x3 on topic x4 from x5, who disagrees with post x6 for reason x7, not realizing that the post was meant to be sent to x8 rather than all of mailing list x9 (default jboste) where it was posted in response to email x10, whose author wishes selma'o x11 (default SE) were extended to concisely express place x12 of brivla x13 (default besto) which has place structure x14 and too many places because of sadistic whim x15 of brivla-maker x16, who also created brivla x17 which has place structure x18, and so winds up using too many of cmavo x19 (default zi'o) in order to make the brivla ( x13) more usable by standard x20 and wishes they had never heard of the word besto for reason x21, not realizing for reason x22 that it was suggested sarcastically due to boredom x23 of person x24, who is proposing it against better judgement x25 because it is fun by standard x26, but still wishes it had as many places as x27 (default du) for reason x28, and feels like throwing in epistemology sumti x29, because he / she knows both that gismu x30 (default besto) has its place structure defined by run-on sentence x31 and that epistemology sumti are used in gismu x32 by epistemology x33, notwithstanding the fact that x34 actually has a use for besto places x35 (default 1) through x36 (default x7) and wishes this weren't an extremely long and stupid joke, longer than joke x37 and stupider than joke x38 but still appreciated by x39 - a fact which says x40 about them in the opinion of x41 - but not seen as even remotely amusing by x42, who is aware that x43 has a use for the gismu besto because of x45
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