The Word of the Day Thread
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@hungrier I definitely need to finish on Don't Panic.
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https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/submission/3816/Autotonsorialist
Someone who cuts his or her own hair
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LOJBAN HAS A WORD FOR :giggity[zo'oro'u]:
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@arantor said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@jaloopa im trying to decide which quote from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2bcFfMt6rGLTPpbG0yLwPw0/42-douglas-adams-quotes-to-live-by will go into next week's "so long, and thanks for all the fish" email.
all of them?
:-)
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@ben_lubar said in The Word of the Day Thread:
LOJBAN HAS A WORD FOR :giggity[zo'oro'u]:
so does english. it's called "innuendo" or "giggity" or @Perverted_Vixen even "fuck?-yes-please!"
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@r10pez10 said in The Word of the Day Thread:
i am somewhat disappoint that this wasn't a handwritten note.
but... sometimes expediency is required i guess.
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@perverted_vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Word of the Day Thread:
LOJBAN HAS A WORD FOR :giggity[zo'oro'u]:
so does english. it's called "innuendo" or "giggity" or @Perverted_Vixen even "fuck?-yes-please!"
No, innuendo would not be a synonym to zo'oro'u because it isn't the same form of speech. Also, "fuck yes" in lojban is oi'onai.
Here's a pronounciation guide:
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Let me try:
"mapnerd"
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@ben_lubar said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@perverted_vixen said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Word of the Day Thread:
LOJBAN HAS A WORD FOR :giggity[zo'oro'u]:
so does english. it's called "innuendo" or "giggity" or @Perverted_Vixen even "fuck?-yes-please!"
No, innuendo would not be a synonym to zo'oro'u because it isn't the same form of speech. Also, "fuck yes" in lojban is oi'onai.
Here's a pronounciation guide:
A Map of the State of Ohio A Portrait of William Sanford Nye
To call them the same form of speech would be to call Lojban speech.
I do not consider it so.
also that pronunciation guide it massively ambiguous.
the nonsense syllables of oi'onai are apparantly pronounced A Map of the State of Ohio A Portrait of William Sanford Nye
which is bollocks if you ask me.
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a slobbering or dirty fellow, a worthless sloven
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@mikael_svahnberg said in The Word of the Day Thread:
a worthless sloven
Those poor people from Slovenia, they deserve better.
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I didn't know that word. I knew "epicurism": "the practices or tastes of an epicure", cf:
Get the two together and you have someone who derives pleasure from fine food, drink and misfortunes of others.
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@zecc I like epicaricacy because it has 2 meanings bundled:
1 - Pleasure at someone else's misfortune (schadenfreude).
2 - Irritation at someone else's good fortune.I thought epicure might have a similar etymology, but actually it's just named after some dude:
late 14c., "follower of Epicurus," from Latinized form of Greek Epicouros (341-270 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher who taught that pleasure is the highest good and identified virtue as the greatest pleasure; the first lesson recalled, the second forgotten, and the name used pejoratively for "one who gives himself up to sensual pleasure" (1560s), especially "glutton, sybarite" (1774). Epicurus's school was opposed by the stoics, who first gave his name a reproachful sense. Non-pejorative meaning "one who cultivates refined taste in food and drink" is from 1580s.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Chagrin is a noun that represents an emotion or feeling and it's an uncomfortable one
That phrasing makes it sound like "chagrin" is an uncomfortable word.
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@zecc I'll hold the nail. When I nod my head you hit it with the hammer.
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An adjective meaning:
- of or like the amaranth;
- unfading; everlasting. Eg. a woman of amaranthine loveliness.
- of purplish-red color.
As for amaranth, it's confusingly any of these:
- an imaginary undying flower;
- any plant of the genus Amaranthus, some species of which are cultivated as food and some for their showy flower clusters or foliage;
- a purplish-red water-soluble powder, C20H11N2O10Na3 , an azo dye used chiefly to color pharmaceuticals, food, and garments.
- purpleheart, ie:
- the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
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My favorite word, also why some hardware depends on the phase of the moon for correct operation (synchronisation can be tricky...) :)
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I didn't get there from "concomitance", if you expected that.
I literally opened a dictionary in a random page and it was there.
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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
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I like the use of "intellectual pap" in the second definition.
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So apparently "vishing" and "smishing" are.... words.
Vishing: voice (telephone) phishing
Smishing: SMS phishing
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Most of us think we're too clever to be scammed, but in fact any of us can get caught out by fraudsters who are increasingly using a type of psychological manipulation known as 'social engineering'.
Well done BBC on finally catching up with 15yo news.
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I'm having the weirdest déjà vu.
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Sexton
a church officer or employee who takes care of the church property and performs related minor duties (such as ringing the bell for services and digging graves)
Oh.
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