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2020-11-23, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Not exactly one word, but this past week I learned what "with prejudice" means
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2020-11-23, 04:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Now I want to open a cheese shop...
Zinken: a symbol used by itinerant travelers who spoke Rotwelsch, which was a beggar's language.
"This zinken told passersby that the owner of the house would give you cheese if you asked."Last edited by Scarlet Knight; 2020-11-23 at 05:00 PM.
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2020-11-23, 04:56 PM (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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2020-11-23, 07:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-23, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Last edited by Scarlet Knight; 2020-11-24 at 01:06 PM.
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2020-11-24, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-24, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
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2020-11-24, 01:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-24, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Is this the right thread for an argument?
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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2020-11-24, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-24, 02:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Are there wrong threads for arguments?
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2020-11-24, 07:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-24, 07:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
All glory to the
hypnotoadRoland.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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2020-11-25, 06:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Carcinisation (Or Carcinization for the Americans).
From reading it you might think it was related to 'carcinogen', a substance which promotes the growth of cancerous cells.... And you'd only be half right.
"Carcin-" and "cancer" are in this case linked not by chemistry, but by astrology. Carcinisation is a process of convergent evolution (that is, animals evolving independently of each other and not otherwise being genetically related) to eventually come to resemble a crab-like creature.
Apparently it's something that has happened 5 or 6 times throughout history - nature really, really likes crabs and keeps trying to get things to evolve into them from several different sources, so much so that the process has its own name.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2020-11-25, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Last edited by Fyraltari; 2020-11-25 at 07:14 AM.
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2020-11-25, 07:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2020-11-25, 09:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
What pun?.
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2020-11-25, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-25, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
"We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2020-11-25, 09:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
For me a new one is "canker sores", those little painful wounds in your mouth.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-11-25, 10:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
For reasons I won't go into, this reminds me of a phrase that some may not know - the Clbuttic issue, which is a specific subset of the Scunthorpe problem. Specifically, website profanity filters that both replace offending words with tamer versions and also tend to be somewhat overzealous. Which leads to words like "assassinate" and "constitution" being changed to "buttbuttinate" and "consbreastution".
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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2020-11-26, 03:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
I mean, I concede - to be perfectly accurate it refers to non-crab crustaceans evolving into crab-like creatures, since genetically they are unrelated to actual crabs and only resemble them. I was paraphrasing for what I thought was comedic effect, but it looks like I didn't go deep enough.
It's still a good word though, and evokes some very strange images about what the anthromorphic version of 'nature' or 'evolution' would be like - just utterly obsessed with crabs and beetles, apparently.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2020-11-26, 04:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-26, 04:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-27, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
shibboleth (n): a custom/principle/belief distinguishing a group of people
gulaman (n): a Filipino bar or powder of dried agar used for jellylike desserts
hāngi (n): a traditional New Zealand / Maori cooking method using heated rocks buried in a pit oven
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2020-11-27, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-11-28, 01:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
That comes from the Old Testament, where we're introduced to the word. Keeping it general, one group used it as a password and killed anybody who couldn't pronounce it right.
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2020-11-28, 03:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Last edited by Fyraltari; 2020-11-30 at 05:01 PM.
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2020-11-28, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What new words have you learned recently?
Thanks guys! I meant to look up what "shibboleth" meant and never got to it.
Theodicy - defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil.
The sentence it was in was : "Disruption is a theodicy of hypercapitalism.""We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2020-11-28, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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