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We do have a weird saying for something that's popular though. Instead of saying "selling like hot cakes" we say "selling like chopped poo poo".
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Alhazred posted:We do have a weird saying for something that's popular though. Instead of saying "selling like hot cakes" we say "selling like chopped poo poo". ... ...why...?
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Mar 23, 2020 13:16
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You want to buy it whole and get your own knife dirty?
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Mar 23, 2020 13:35
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I needed that like a turd in a punch bowl, seriously -Samovar posted:...
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Mar 23, 2020 19:25
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Samovar posted:... There's a theory that it originates from sailors selling guano, but: 
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Mar 23, 2020 19:58
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Ha, love the new thread title! As long as we're talkin' poop-based expressions, the best one I ever heard was from my high school Spanish teacher. He spoke several languages (at least English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and German), so I don't know where he picked this up from. One day he got understandably frustrated with a class clown who somehow made it to 11th grade Spanish yet still pronounced J's like English J's, "LL"'s like L's instead of Y-sound, and such. Things we all learned in 7th grade. Kid was goofing off and being an rear end, gets called on for a question, and totally fucks it up. Our teacher snapped and yelled: "I don't know why I even try to teach you anything, trying to teach you is trying to push diarrhea uphill with a rake!"
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Mar 24, 2020 21:52
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https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1242285005168132098
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Looks like I'm on a poop theme, because today's new word for me is gongfermer. Also spelled gong-farmer, it's a name for the guys who used to clean out cesspools. They were the Tudor version of those septic tank pumping trucks. People pooped in a hole, either public or private, but eventually it got filled up with solids (the liquids leeched out, much like modern septic tanks) or the stench got too horrific, and so you got a gongfermer to come clean it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_farmer ...and as a bonus, let's have a #2 word about #2 : ordure. I encountered this one from the above Wikipedia article. It means poop, or alternately, as Merriam-Webster says, "something that is morally degrading". Eg, "hey, no ordure-posting in my thread!"
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Elysiume posted:I'd never heard the phrase "alligator tears" over "crocodile tears" and when I heard it in You should be sad by Halsey, I googled it to see yeah, some people use it. Then, since I was curious, I looked to see if anyone else did something similar:
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Apr 9, 2020 10:25
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I learned it some time ago, though I've not yet had a chance to use it: Oleaginous. It means greasy, oily. Or excessively complimentary, as a way to curry favour. Perfect for use on politicians, lawyers, PR hacks and the like. I love this word because of how it sounds. It just sounds oily the way it rolls off your tongue. Its not a common word but I feel like you could use it in a sentence and people would know exactly what it meant.
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Apr 9, 2020 13:59
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We got a word for words that sound like the thing they're describing (onomatopoeia, which isn't one), but we don't have a word yet for words that feel like the thing they're describing. E: vvv  Your link reprints a passage from a Terry Pratchett book, which I'm certain I must have read at some point quote:Glint, glisten, glitter, gleam... Phy has a new favorite as of 18:06 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Apr 9, 2020 17:09
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Phy posted:We got a word for words that sound like the thing they're describing (onomatopoeia, which isn't one), but we don't have a word yet for words that feel like the thing they're describing. I did a little digging because I could swear I've heard/read about just such a term. Just for an example off the top of my head, I thought of "ooze"; it's not an onomatopoeia, because there's no sound associated with the movement, say, a slug makes, but "ooze" just... feels and sounds like how a slug moves, if that makes any sense. Thanks to this article, I found phonestheme, which seems to fit the bill? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/456303/word-that-sounds-like-its-meaning-not-onomatopoeia-ex-twinkle I don't think it's the word I had in mind, but hey, it's a new word for me!
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I mean this is basically Sapir-Whorf... Do we think that some unfamiliar word sounds like a known thing because our brains are naturally like that and our language has been shaped by it, or because other words have shaped our brain? See also the Bouba/Kiki effect. If you haven't heard about it before, try assigning the names "bouba" and "kiki" to the below shapes before reading the article:  Bouba/Kiki effect
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Apr 9, 2020 18:35
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bouba is you
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Apr 9, 2020 23:12
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Phy posted:We got a word for words that sound like the thing they're describing (onomatopoeia, which isn't one), but we don't have a word yet for words that feel like the thing they're describing. Japanese definitely has the concept of literal vs. metaphorical onomatopoeia, although I don't remember the relevant terms off the top of my head.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:bouba is you mm yes mmm
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Apr 9, 2020 23:18
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I think hempuli said that is where the baba and Kiki names came from
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Apr 10, 2020 02:28
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I have no idea where they came from but I have boubi for sure <- Bûbī
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Apr 10, 2020 06:39
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Lot of new words in here for everyone to learn. https://twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/1251774289579294722
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This one isn't knew to me but it almost certainly is to anyone reading this thread. In Pigeon / Bislama thongs aka flip flops are known as "go forwards" So if you're ever on a tropical island in the south pacific you know what to call your footwear to sound local.
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Apr 23, 2020 06:52
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Makes sense, they're hard to walk backwards in
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Thanks to my volunteering to get my first ever probation in 12 years for this thread's fine poster Inceltown, I learned a new word! (And couldn't post it here until I got off my cat-sixer, which was pretty funny/sad in how it was driving me crazy bc I learned it while still on probation)Inceltown posted:You're a genuinely good poster not someone who is just anodyne so hasn't eaten one. I want to cull the weak not the good. anodyne : "not likely to provoke dissent or offense" JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 12:09 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Another norwegian expression : "Lobster and canary", which means mixing things that doesn't belong together. The expression comes from rich people ordering lobster and wine from the Canary Islands, these things did not go well together at all but people ordered it because it was the most expensive items on the menu.
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Apparently, bloviate is a made up word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloviation
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Carthag Tuek posted:Apparently, bloviate is a made up word. Psst, all words are... In my countries native sign language you don't ask "Are you left or right handed?" You ask "Which hand/arm strong?"
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Jestery posted:Psst, all words are... I mean yeah, but relatively recently. I always thought bloviate came from latin.
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Carthag Tuek posted:I mean yeah, but relatively recently. I always thought bloviate came from latin. True, I had a similar feeling with the word "wherewithal" was like oh right , "the where , the with and the all"
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Inceltown posted:Lot of new words in here for everyone to learn.  Can't say I've ever felt that one in my entire adult life.
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Jun 13, 2020 07:30
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Flummery, which means empty compliments or nonsense. Learned it from Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:
I have. Caring about things is sometimes really exhausting, and it would be handy to be able to turn off the empathy for a while.
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Jun 14, 2020 16:50
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Yeah, a desire to do something is not the same as the ability to do something.
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RoboRodent posted:I have. Caring about things is sometimes really exhausting, and it would be handy to be able to turn off the empathy for a while. Exactly. There's so many things to care about in the world, an endless queue of them, and it would be tranquil to just switch it off for a while.
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Carthag Tuek posted:Apparently, bloviate is a made up word. And yet perfectly cromulent.
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Alhazred posted:We do have a weird saying for something that's popular though. Instead of saying "selling like hot cakes" we say "selling like chopped poo poo". And yet, things also sell like warm wheatbread.
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Groke posted:And yet perfectly cromulent. I think it's funny that "embiggen" seems like more of a "real word" (all words are made-up), but "cromulent" is the one that's actually entered the lexicon to an extent. The best part is that you can tell what both of them mean by just hearing the word ("cromulent" is a little more context-sensitive, obviously).
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beats for junkies posted:I think it's funny that "embiggen" seems like more of a "real word" (all words are made-up), but "cromulent" is the one that's actually entered the lexicon to an extent. The best part is that you can tell what both of them mean by just hearing the word ("cromulent" is a little more context-sensitive, obviously).
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I think the word we are all wanting ifor made up word is "neologism"
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Jestery posted:I think the word we are all wanting ifor made up word is "neologism" Thats the word the Wachowski's made up for when Keanu gets good at maths in The Matrix right?
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GoodyTwoShoes posted:yo-SEM-it-tee, not yos-might That's because your family thought you were the smart one oh ho ho
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