The Word of the Day Thread
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@Zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Who sanctioned this? Seems like an oversight.
It's by design. Won't explain, thanks.
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@djls45 said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@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)This is going to lead to some postponement problems.
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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:
Now to battle for promiscuity!
Is not having lots of sex antimiscuity?
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@Jaloopa said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
antepone
Word of the day:
Now to battle for promiscuity!
Is not having lots of sex antimiscuity?
Immiscuity?
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@Zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Who sanctioned this? Seems like an oversight.
I've been thinking... clearly nobody actually knows English. There are no native English speakers. Everyone is ESL. Everyone's just faking it and hoping the others don't notice.
So you encounter a word like "chuffed" or "nonplussed". What does it mean? You don't know, so you try to glean it from context. Of course, the person who used it doesn't know either; they're using it like they think it should be used, based on the context where they heard it used.
Some while later, someone finally gets around to compiling a dictionary and looks at what the attested usages are. What they're actually seeing is the result of generations of ESL people trying to figure out what all those strange words mean.
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@GOG There are two ways to define a language. Guessing shit based on context is one cromulent approach. The other is to have some committee make shit up wholesale.
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@dkf said in The Word of the Day Thread:
The other is to have some committee make shit up wholesale.
This year, the committee is meeting 100 miles due East of New York City, April 9th-12th.
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@GOG said in The Word of the Day Thread:
clearly nobody actually knows English. There are no native English speakers.
I am. I'm the only one.
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@Gribnit said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I'm the only one.
Flagged by Google for copyright infringement.
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@dkf said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@GOG There are two ways to define a language. Guessing shit based on context is one cromulent approach. The other is to have some committee make shit up wholesale.
Technically, there's also the Humpty Dumpty approach: the words I use mean what I say they mean. It seems to be pretty popular.
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@GOG said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Technically, there's also the Humpty Dumpty approach: the words I use mean what I say they mean. It seems to be pretty popular.
That's just a prototype of the other two, depending on whether you're on the committee or not.
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@GOG Boris Johnson appears to be a fan of this approach. We seem to have redefined what 'work event including cake and/or booze' and 'party' mean.
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Being nonplussed is basically the human response version of an empty catch block.
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@Arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@GOG Boris Johnson appears to be a fan of this approach. We seem to have redefined what 'work event including cake and/or booze' and 'party' mean.
He's also clearly redefined “world-beating” to mean “shit”.
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Muggeseggele - an approximate term of length equal to a housefly's ballsack.
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My word of the day:
Wordle 229 5/6🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
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@Arantor
ERR_PROBABLY_MORE_THAN_ONE_WORD
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@Gribnit Given that Wordle is literally a 'discover the word of the day' game (there's only one word per day), and I did guess it... it's entirely apt, I'd say.
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@Arantor presenting the word as a satisfiability problem is a bit unusual, but fair enough.
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Wordle 229 6/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩There are surprisingly many words that start with those 4 letters.
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Wordle 2
2930 5/6🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩My second word:
Penis
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@Arantor I've seen a bunch of mentions to Wordle recently, but your post finally made me go look for what it is.
It's Mastermind with words, if I understood correctly from the description I've just skimmed?
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩The words I guessed
CLEAR
LATER
PLATE
PLEAT
Is this the thing? https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
What's with the numbers in your posts?
If it's #played #wins #streak, mine is 1 1 1
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@Zecc so “Wordle 229” is which one it is, there’s only one puzzle a day so that’s which puzzle it is, the 4/6 or whatever is how many guesses you took out of 6 - and if you use the “share result” option you just get that auto added helpfully.
I think my highest streak is about 6 because I just have that occasional one crap day a week at work where I just don’t remember to Wordle that day, but of the 15 days or so I have done it, I’ve beaten it each day, just my streak breaks when I have that day where I just leave work feeling broken.
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Since we’re doing this, I actually got my first win in two guesses today.
Wordle 230 2/6*
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩First guess was
TRACEDunno what the auto-generated asterisk is. Maybe because I enabled “Hard Mode”?
ETA: might as well present all the statistics while I’m here
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@Arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
and if you use the “share result” option you just get that auto added helpfully.
You mean there's an alternative to writing a post by hand, through copy-pasting 🟩⬜🟨 a bunch of times?
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@Zecc yup, when you hit an outcome (either win or lose) you get a share button, which will give you the emoji boxes etc preformatted.
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@Zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
and if you use the “share result” option you just get that auto added helpfully.
You mean there's an alternative to writing a post by hand, through copy-pasting 🟩⬜🟨 a bunch of times?
Sheesh. At least use a colored box CDN.
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The entire word list is in the main.js file that loads for anyone who wants to pretend they're Hackerman.
Here's my latest , clearly not cheating.
Wordle 230 X/6
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Also this (I'm on the US side apparently):
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@Zecc well, this bolshy pelmet has me chuffed to gazump someone right in the tippex. Mate.
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@Gribnit what has the correctional fluid done to deserve that?
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@Gribnit said in The Word of the Day Thread:
to gazump someone right in the tippex
Is that even physically possible?
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@dkf said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Word of the Day Thread:
to gazump someone right in the tippex
Is that even physically possible?
Iff sufficiently chuffed.
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@Gribnit said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@Zecc well, this bolshy pelmet has me chuffed to gazump someone right in the tippex. Mate.
After running that through various languages on Google Translate:
Now the people of the tea packs have accepted this Bolshevik diet. With.
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Wordle 236 5/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩It took me way too long to figure out my 4th guess.
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Wordle 236 6/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩I can't help but notice some similarities between your results and mine.
The third guess hit particularly uncomfortably. (no idea if your yellow letters were the same as mine, of course).I had no problems coming up with the
4th5th guess, although I used borrowed words.My guesses
TRAIN ARGUE USAGE SALVE PASSE PAUSE
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@Zecc it turns out there's a thread for this: https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1937375
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@dkf in England, yes. Just erase the number on someone's mortgage offer then bid in their place.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in :
chernozem
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@HardwareGeek From the Russian words for "black" (черное) and "earth" (земля). Rather self-describing, if you know the language.
Similarly, the Slavic demon/devil/mythic god known as Chernobog is literally "black god".
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@HardwareGeek I did wonder what had you found so agreeable in my tirade as to afford the upboat
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@Benjamin-Hall that one has no brothers.
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Polish Idiom of the Day:
Literally "the German cried when he sold". Based on the widespread Polish practice of importing used cars from Germany. Implies that the previous owner had to sell the car below market value, and thus it can be expected to be a great deal.
Can confirm it's been around for as long as I've been alive.
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the widespread Polish practice of importing used cars from Germany
Owners’ consent optional.