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2020-07-07, 05:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
I see your Inigo Montoya and I raise my James Bond!
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2020-07-07, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Quite where that meaning for the word comes from, but it must be very modern - it isn't any of the meanings in the Oxford English Dictionary (the full version which attempts to include any word ever used as English).
The OED's definitions pretty much fit my understanding of the word (with a couple of surprises):
It's a dialect word for the dry measure of 2 pecks or half a bushel.
It is an obsolete word for teaching.
It is an obsolete word for being able to see something or visual range.
It is an obsolete word for teaching.
And it means to understand something.
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2020-07-07, 10:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
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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2020-07-07, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-07, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-08, 05:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
I think Orlando Bloom would be more Elan.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-07-08, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
It's a Nordic and Germanic word in that meaning, and an outdated or possibly even archaic one at that (I don't speak any Nordic languages, just German). And I've never seen it used except to refer to Norse poetry, which is extremely heavy on Kennings. (As in, there's entire verses without normal nouns.)
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2020-07-13, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Bildungsroman" is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood.
It was in a book review and it's use in the sentence " This book is a Bildungsroman" didn't help me in the slightest."We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2020-07-14, 01:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Bildungsroman is what RPG enthusiasts call "zero to hero".
The Curse of the House of Rookwood: Supernatural horror and family drama.
Ash Island: Personal survival horror in the vein of Silent Hill.
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2020-07-14, 04:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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From my experiences in German classes, it's mostly whiny upper middle class teenagers growing into whiny middle class young adults.
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2020-07-14, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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A haberdasher is either a seller of men's clothing or a seller of what you mention. A haberdashery is where a haberdasher sells his stuff. Haberdashery is the stuff a haberdasher sells.
That sounds like a rather unfortunate amount of the "literature" I read in school. Catcher in the Rye is probably the ultimate example I was made to suffer through.
And although I learned it 5 or six years ago, I present "trunion", which is a system for allowing something to tilt, especially a cannon.
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2020-07-15, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Catcher in the Rye has nothing on The Sorrows of Young Werther. The one where he philosophizes for an entire chapter about how happy the poor peasants working in the fields are, because all their suffering is physical, unlike his own, which is mental and artistic and deep and they aren't smart and educated enough to suffer like he can. Because the girl he's stalking doesn't love him enough.
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2020-07-15, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-16, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Trunnion with 2 N:s. And I must have read too much historical non-fiction because I knew this without actually knowing the word right away. Just a voice in my head going, "nah must be with 2 Ns".
No it actually isn't. It is a classic (ok many will dispute that) from the Romantic period. It was quite serious about itself, and IIRC accused, even in its time to have encouraged "Romantics"to kill themselves. The majority of the Romantic movement is like that, pretentious, angsty and superbly insufferable. The whole moment is a reaction against the rationality of Enlightment thought. I read Dostoevsky's The Idiot as an assignment, as we had to read a book from the period-genre-style. My bookreport of it was titled:"Aaaaaaaaaargh!". True story. It was painful to slog through. Every character always acted in the most painfully insane emotional way ensuring the utmost misery for everyone involved. The reader included. Many of the Romantic classics are like this, The Humpback of Notre Dame I am only 50% sure I read has the same general set up.Last edited by snowblizz; 2020-07-16 at 06:39 AM.
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2020-07-24, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm, I try to learn new words when I see them... I'm blanking, only remembering colors, I'll put one here:
aeneous: greenish gold
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2020-07-26, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Panglossian : marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic.
An article in my newspaper read: " should this seem naively panglossian...""We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2020-07-27, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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The word comes from Pangloss, a character from Voltaire's short work Candide, ou l'Optimisme, who believes that this world is the best of possible worlds.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-07-27, 09:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Pangloss is a satire/strawman of the philosopher Leibniz.
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2020-07-27, 09:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-31, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-31, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-01, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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I would really like to see a game made by Obryn, Kurald Galain, and Knaight from these forums.
I'm not joking one bit. I would buy the hell out of that. -- ChubbyRain
Current Design Project: Legacy, a game of masters and apprentices for two players and a GM.
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2020-08-02, 11:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Again in another book review I ran upon a German word that I never heard of before.
Weltschmerz (from the German, literally world-pain, also world weariness) .
A book review referred to Lincoln as "a character of deep wisdom and soul and Weltschmerz"."We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2020-08-14, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's so funny you guys have a thread for this. On FB I post words frequently that I encounter while reading news articles online. The most recent one I shared is:
Vacillate - to alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; to be indecisive
Example: "I had, for a time, vacillated between teaching and journalism."
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2020-08-14, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Recently learned the word Sonder, which is great because I find it hard to believe that people actually get concerned enough by that realization that it needs its own word.
I dunno, I just find it pretty natural to think I'm just one person out of billions, and everything that happens to me is just as hectic as everyone else. Never needed to realize it, I just always knew it.Characters I've enjoyed playing for more than four sessions:
Falgar the Swiftblade
Revain Sumeth, Whip Fighter Extraordinaire
Malvin Firel, Cleric of Corellon, Destroyer of Undeath
Vongur Dorent, Primeval Champion of Poverty
In defense of the Vow of Poverty
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2020-08-15, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-15, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'd call that a truism. I'd say tautology is a repetition of information, either from acronym confusion (e.g. PIN number) or describing nouns with adjectives already included in their definitions e.g. organic aldehyde, French Parisian, microscopic atom.
As for new words, I learned "crepuscular" today, meaning "of or related to twilight"*. I therefore move that Stephanie Meyer fans henceforth be referred to as "the crepuscular collective".
*Here was the context, if anyone's interested.
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2020-08-15, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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A French Parisian isn't really a tautology as you could have, say, a Moroccan Parisian or an American Parisian. They domicile there, they are not culturally or nationally French. I live in Phoenix, thus I am a Phoenician but I am not an Arizonan Phoenician. I wasn't born in Arizona nor do I identity as an Arizonan culturally. Also a tautology may be used to mean "a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form." which the quoted examples fall under. That's how it's defined in logic.
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2020-08-15, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-15, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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