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2020-11-30, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Historically, a little bit of both- it's hard to come up with a way to identify members of your group that doesn't be default also identify non-members.
Also, since shibboleth is in fact a historical shibboleth, we could describe it as autological- a word that describes itself.
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2020-12-01, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's the context I always understood it in myself. Especially in regards to the pronunciation of a word.
So, knowing what THAC0 is could be a Shibboleth to old school D&D players. Knowing how to pronounce Welsh diphthongs. Knowing how to pronounce any word at all in French.Hi, I'm back, I guess. ^_^I cosplay and stream LPs of single player games on Twitch! Mon, Wed & Fri; currently playing: Nier: Replicant (Mon/Wed) and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Thurs or Fri)
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2020-12-01, 08:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2020-12-01, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-01, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
I would posit that you do not steal language, you assimilate it. Interesting aside regarding pronunciation of French words: Matt Easton of the Scholagladiatoria youtube channel did a couple of vids about the pronunciation of the word "machicolation" (a part of a castle). Turns out that the word, most likely pronounced differently than the modern French, came into the English language at a specific time and from a specific region/lineage within France where it was pronounced as such.
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2020-12-01, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Shibboleths are very commonly seen in WWII movies where soldiers identify who is a real American by asking things like "Who won the 1940 world series?" or spot spies by recognizing the incorrect hand gesture for a German indicating the number 3.
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2020-12-01, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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With, it should be noted, varying degrees of historical success. American troops, reacting to rumors that comic book supervillain Otto Skorzeny was operating behind allied lines in disguise, detained an American general after being unsatisfied with his answer to a simple question.
The twist here being that he had answered the question "What's the Capital of Illinois," correctly with "Springfield," but the soldier who stopped him firmly believed the answer was Chicago.
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2020-12-01, 03:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-01, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2020-12-01, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, yes, for example, I hear you guys still spell "connaisseur" with two "o"s. Such an insurmontable gap.*
Joking aside, if you want to split hairs, it was Anglo-Norman you guys got, which is mainly derived from Norman but also from other Oïl languages as not all of William's army was from Normandy. Most Oïl languages being close enough to be mutually understandable, this wasn't much of an issue. Norman kept on going its merry way and merge with the other Oïl languages to form middle French.
Funnily, the Norman-descended English words are generally not those you'd expect: "war", "to catch", "budget" and many more have Oïl roots.
*I was flabbergasted when I learned this was the original spelling and not some sort of typo. I should have guessed, really since writing "ai" sounds "oi" is the French equivalent of "Ye Olde Englishe".Forum Wisdom
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2020-12-01, 05:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-01, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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threnody: a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning
"After the election my brother produced a threnody for his party.""We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2020-12-01, 05:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-01, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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First off, I'm using the American English "sacré bleu".
Second off, the last person to say that unironically is alive today, and you're talkin' to him!
Third off, one day I'll remember that it's one word, no diacritic. I do appreciate that you correct me every time. For reals. And I'm sorry it never takes.Last edited by Peelee; 2020-12-01 at 05:42 PM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2020-12-01, 05:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-01, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2020-12-01, 05:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's French and is an equivalent to sacrebleu. Etymologically speaking (bear in mind that bleu stands in for Dieu for fear of blasphemy charges) sacrebleu translates to something like "holy God", while palsambleu is a contraction of par le sang de bleu/Dieu meaning "God's blood".
I can't remember what you've told me, and yet you expect me to remember how often you've told me?Forum Wisdom
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2020-12-01, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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And here I spent years thinking sacrebleu was a reference to the Virgin's cloak.
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2020-12-01, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-02, 05:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Who said anything about loanwords? As I suggested with Welsh, I'm perfectly capable of respecting another language's rules of pronunciation being different (I'd argue Welsh makes better use of the Latin alphabet than actual Latin, but that's besides the point). I'll mock English for being 3 pigins in a trenchcoat mugging other languages for spare noun in an ally any day.
Would you care to explain the rule of pronunciation that justifies oiseaux? 5 vowels, two consonants, and only the s makes any sound that makes consistent sense with the French flavour of the Latin alphabet.Hi, I'm back, I guess. ^_^I cosplay and stream LPs of single player games on Twitch! Mon, Wed & Fri; currently playing: Nier: Replicant (Mon/Wed) and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Thurs or Fri)
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2020-12-02, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Oi" being pronounced [wa], "se" being pronounced [z] when preceded by a vowel-sound, "au" being pronounced [o] and "x" being silent when used to indicate plural are all well-established and extremely consistent rules of French pronunciation.
In other words: Digraphs, baby!Forum Wisdom
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2020-12-02, 06:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2020-12-02, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-03, 12:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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The things I learn on these forums.
Anyways,
loukoumade (n): Greek bite-sized donuts that are essentially deep-fried, honeyed balls
rapprochement (n): establishing or a state of cordial relations, usually in politics/government
cephalophore (n): a saint depicted carrying their own severed head. I'm absolutely flummoxed as to why this word exists.
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2020-12-03, 05:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh wait, you meant the French rules and not the British-in-general? My bad...
A word I learned a while ago but it's one that I really enjoy because it's a lot of fun to say:
Phantasmagoria - A state in which one is experiencing "phantasms" (ie, hallucinating).~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2020-12-03, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Coinage from fairly easy to snap together Greek components to describe a recurrent motif in martyrship narratives. As to why it was such a recurrent motif- well, I don't want to say it's because the French are obsessed with decapitation, but apparently they had like one hundred and thirty of these guys.
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2020-12-03, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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To be fair, every field of study is going to have incredibly specific jargon that to an outsider seems incomprehensible, and art would not be an exception. If you are getting an art degree, you have to have ways to discuss things, so why not break it down into a million tiny bits?
I remember learning (as a teen) about names for sub-parts of the body like the Tragus of the ear or the Philtrum of the lip and thinking how silly it was for each of them to have this specialized name no one would remember, and my teacher saying, "the people who need to make these distinctions will remember."
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2020-12-03, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Wow, man. I was have a phantasmagoria at Woodstock and all the while I thought I was just tripping."
aperçu - comment or brief reference that makes an illuminating or entertaining point.
"There were so many scintillating apercus in this book that I gave up underlining them!""We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2020-12-04, 04:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Simony, the selling and buying of religious offices and artefacts.
"The Knights Templar were charged, among other things, with simony and fraud."Forum Wisdom
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2020-12-04, 09:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Not really narrative, but iconography. The story isn't about the guy carrying his head as much as losing it, but the fresco will portray him carrying his head to show how he died.
EDIT: I correct myself: beside the iconography, there apparently also are legends of the body carrying the head post-mortem.Last edited by Vinyadan; 2020-12-04 at 09:42 AM.
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