The Word of the Day Thread
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@cursorkeys
Somehow that seems extra relevant here
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@magus said in The Word of the Day Thread:
recordation
I had no idea there was a word for that other than 'recording', that's awesome. It reminded me of:
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@cursorkeys It was in a pull request, and I was horribly annoyed because it is valid and correct in context, but sounds made up.
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@dkf said in The Word of the Day Thread:
It's interesting how some words that are pedestrian vernacular in some languages become so inconspicuous in others.
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To @blakeyrat, who didn't ask for a word like this.
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@zecc I know that word.
Yahoo Games used to use it when you went into observer mode.
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Lots of these around here:
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And while looking at links related to that, I found:
Which includes this gem of a phrase:
Explosions are a real hazard in this area of research.
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Vote for renaming @mods as @svengalis
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@hungrier said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Come on Eileen
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Ok, breaking the rules. But this one's important for today.
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@dkf said in The Word of the Day Thread:
And while looking at links related to that, I found:
That onebox looks very .
Which includes this gem of a phrase:
Explosions are a real hazard in this area of research.
Yep, still .
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
"The name is from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), from Arabic Sarandib, from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa 'Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island.' "
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@boomzilla said in The Word of the Day Thread:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/submission/3816/Autotonsorialist
Someone who cuts his or her own hair
I guess that ruins the old riddle: There is a town with only two barbers. One has badly cut hair, the other has perfectly cut hair. Which one do you go to?
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@r10pez10 said in The Word of the Day Thread:
"Rare" not only applies to the use of the word, but the quality as well.
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@heterodox said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I usually use it in the second sense ("masturbation", since that's not in the onebox), as in "That PM's congratulatory e-mail to the team was actually an exercise in pure onanism." Careful about using it in contexts where someone may ask you to define it though. I try to only use it around people I'm pretty sure would already know it. :P
This word led to an argument here, surrounding its biblical origins.
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@cursorkeys said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I like it better than pseudo-intellectual. I now have to add the second item to my list of "Words That Always Describe the Speaker". (The first, of course, is "judgmental".)
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ETA: I keep meaning to copy the pronunciation of these for those who have trouble with words they've only seen written. [an-tip-uh-dee-uh n]
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It's the word in English with the most definitions.
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@raceprouk
I think you should add another one, just to complete the set
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@heterodox said in The Word of the Day Thread:
ETA: I keep meaning to copy the pronunciation of these for those who have trouble with words they've only seen written. [an-tip-uh-dee-uh n]
TIL I've been pronouncing antipodes incorrectly. (rhyming with "bode")
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It's not immediately obvious. Words I got wrong until I heard them:
militia: milli-tee-ah
albeit: all-beet
hyperbole: hyper-ball
coup: coop
gauge: gawg