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here is a thread where you can post words that are of interest to you. they may be modern words, ancient words, words in any language (though hopefully a translation or explanation may be provided), or lingo bonus points if you can figure out a way to successfully utilize a word in modern parlance (either in jest or otherwise) if you wish, you may also discuss proper nouns, compound words, "turns of phrase", and even abbreviations or acronyms. let your mind body and ethereal being run free of restraints examples: salutations, and salubrious weather this fine day! ... also, ambuscade, escalade, and so on, outmoded words but cool to say. here is a historian explainer dude talkin bout escalades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5oDKhqka8Y i also learned of the word zugzwang. "a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage." neat!!! |
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Oct 11, 2020 19:54
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norumbega as it was explained to me the native people told the europeans this place existed to get them to hopefully leave them alone and venture somewhere else or europeans desperate to get more people to come to the early colonies made it up to sucker people into coming to the americas. very strange legend. wikipedia posted:Norumbega, or Nurembega, is a legendary settlement in northeastern North America which was featured on many early maps from the 1500s until European colonization of the region. It was alleged that the houses had pillars of gold and the inhabitants carried quarts of pearls on their heads. 
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Oct 11, 2020 20:04
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Luvcow posted:norumbega neat and historically interesting! it looks like that the Kingdom of Saguenay may also be related, as it was storied about by Iroquois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Saguenay |
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Oct 11, 2020 20:30
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phat
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Oct 11, 2020 20:45
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Diorama posted:phat i feel like i have not seen 'phat' used in ages and i feel like it's due for a comeback, similarly, putting things 'on blast' |
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Oct 11, 2020 21:01
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in two different rap songs I listened to recently someone said “cunch” and I looked it up last week on urban dictionary “Means country but it is used by the youth to denote a far away area in order to sell drugs.” I’m old and only growing older but at least I know what cunch mean
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Oct 11, 2020 22:12
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i have always been curious about the word 'tarnation'. it was a word that was disappearing just as i was forming memories as a child. i don't even think yosemite sam says it anymore. |
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Oct 11, 2020 22:32
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ah yes, well a black or 'tar' nation would have been a vision of hell for yosemite "sam" rockwell, wild-west historical recreationist and staunch white supremacist
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Oct 11, 2020 23:15
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i really like the word shibboleth because in my experience it works really well as a shibboleth to determine if someone is a word nerd
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Oct 12, 2020 01:58
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does anybody else know what a dirtleg is 
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Oct 12, 2020 02:23
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Heather Papps posted:i really like the word shibboleth because in my experience it works really well as a shibboleth to determine if someone is a word nerd i'm a fan of it but i'm also a fan of the turn of phrase "revealing your power level" which is like the anime-specific shibboleth also other good nerdy words i have leveraged over the years include 'umbrage' i seem to remember reading somewhere that skedaddle came from skegdaddle but really it came from an american civil war era news paper instead of an unsteady skeg (since skeg and daddle are, themselves, two separate words) |
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Oct 12, 2020 03:17
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i am down with words that have no direct correlation to the english language but encapsulate a relatable thing https://www.ef.edu/blog/language/13-words-with-no-english-translation/ i actually am a big fan of some international equivalents of "what's up", like "shaku maku" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/shaku-maku-iraq-arabic goin around saying "what is everything and nothing" at people is a pretty alright way of greetings while we're at it, obscura? 10/10 on the interest scale |
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Oct 13, 2020 01:24
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prepuce repurposed posted:does anybody else know what a dirtleg is A dirt leg is a sediment trap in a natural gas line. It consists of a T junction with one arm pointing down. ---------------- |
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Oct 13, 2020 02:08
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aldantefax posted:i am down with words that have no direct correlation to the english language but encapsulate a relatable thing doing the shaku maku thing from now on |
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Oct 13, 2020 02:21
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the russian word for vagina is vlagalishche which means "the putting-in thing" (v = into, lagat = put, lishche = obsolete suffix for making nouns)
Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 04:42
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Doctor Dogballs posted:A dirt leg is a sediment trap in a natural gas line. It consists of a T junction with one arm pointing down. lmao |
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Oct 13, 2020 04:44
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pusillanimous |
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Oct 13, 2020 05:01
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frump truck posted:pusillanimous for the pusillanimous among us, perhaps they ought be granted some puissance and fortitude |
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Oct 13, 2020 05:59
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Dipsomaniacal.
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Oct 13, 2020 13:11
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Robot Made of Meat posted:Dipsomaniacal. related: insatiable |
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Oct 13, 2020 18:29
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aldantefax posted:related: insatiable i remember finding a porn mag in the woods when i was a kid and one of the sections had a caption that was something like "These babes are INSATIABLE" and i tried to pronounce it for like an hour but always too scared to use it because I just assumed it was dirty
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Oct 13, 2020 23:05
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my favorite word has always been "Rendezvous" because its one of the earliest loanwords i learned. if you're using the phonics method of learning to read, you'll hit that word and metaphorically careen off a cliff into the tempestuous seas
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Oct 13, 2020 23:12
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byzantine labyrinth |
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Oct 14, 2020 06:54
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Pahilla the Hun posted:i remember finding a porn mag in the woods when i was a kid and one of the sections had a caption that was something like "These babes are INSATIABLE" and i tried to pronounce it for like an hour but always too scared to use it because I just assumed it was dirty quite the spelunk you did there! |
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Oct 14, 2020 07:17
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