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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation
« on: September 24, 2024, 12:04:56 PM »
I've been known to call wimpering grousing. I sometimes call my babies monkey-bear when they aren't content.
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: September 10, 2024, 11:26:03 AM »
Supercilious?
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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« on: August 30, 2024, 10:18:37 AM »
What about the sh in fiduciary? And does it depend in if you're pronouncing the second i?
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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« on: August 30, 2024, 10:16:05 AM »
I do the "prounounce it twice" way. Which I guess makes sense because I learned it from my father, who learned English in the Western US.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: August 30, 2024, 10:13:45 AM »
My husband likes the outlander books, but has only experienced them on audio.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: July 16, 2024, 10:41:54 AM »
I sure hope this pharmacy is Care[L]on and not Careion.
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: June 05, 2024, 10:19:33 AM »
It was the first time I'd seen it, and it was not a fully peer reviewed article. More of a thesis.
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: June 03, 2024, 04:06:53 PM »
An article using "narc" to mean narcissist caused me to look up:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/narcotic#etymonline_v_2285
It seems there is no relation.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/narcotic#etymonline_v_2285
It seems there is no relation.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: May 31, 2024, 11:53:16 AM »
My sister who is in her 40's is going back to SLP school and hasn't used IPA before. I was trying to help her start practicing before she hits the ground in the fall. I thought she'd be really excited about it since she's the one sibling who didn't learn to spell based on the prediction of an elementary teacher that we'd be going to phonetic spelling (I guess this would have been in the 80's).
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English & Linguistics / "Endorse" in medicine
« on: May 31, 2024, 11:50:33 AM »
I ran into usage* of "endorses" that I wasn't familiar with, and when I went to look it up, found a whole new (to me)** one.
For starters, there's report, which is what a patient describes without detailed prompting. This is the first part of the interview usually, though in the second part, they sometimes bring in additional info that I might also describe as "reported".
In the second part of the interview I start asking about diagnostic symptoms, and responses to these questions are more likely to be "endorsed" or "denied". I was a nurse for a few years before I even adopted this usage after seeing it in physician documents. I probably even posted somewhere here about it.
I was reading a psychology report today, which is a slightly different discipline, and they were using* the word "endorsed" to mean, best I could tell, what I would call demonstrated or evidenced.
So I go online to try and learn more about this, and learn that some people **use it to say report was handed off to the subsequent shift. This was on a nurse forum, and someone associated it with nurses from the Phillipines. So it might be an ESL meets jargon issue?
For starters, there's report, which is what a patient describes without detailed prompting. This is the first part of the interview usually, though in the second part, they sometimes bring in additional info that I might also describe as "reported".
In the second part of the interview I start asking about diagnostic symptoms, and responses to these questions are more likely to be "endorsed" or "denied". I was a nurse for a few years before I even adopted this usage after seeing it in physician documents. I probably even posted somewhere here about it.
I was reading a psychology report today, which is a slightly different discipline, and they were using* the word "endorsed" to mean, best I could tell, what I would call demonstrated or evidenced.
So I go online to try and learn more about this, and learn that some people **use it to say report was handed off to the subsequent shift. This was on a nurse forum, and someone associated it with nurses from the Phillipines. So it might be an ESL meets jargon issue?
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: February 24, 2024, 10:50:04 PM »
This reminds me of an elementary school kid who was admitted to the pediatric ward for putting shampoo on the cat, supposedly with lethal intent. I always thought that one was kind of dumb. I guess it could depend on if he planned for the cat to be poisoned by licking its fur. But the psych eval didn't get into any specifics like that.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« on: February 24, 2024, 10:41:43 PM »
Doing my training module on Powered Air Purifying Respirator and how everyone pronounces it to rhyme with dapper.
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English & Linguistics / Medicolegal terminology
« on: December 24, 2023, 10:44:52 PM »
A headline about paramedics being charged with killing someone got me looking at the history of "agitated delirium" and revisiting Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain#Use_of_ketamine_questioned
I think Szasz doesn't present a good example of a non mental illness, though he does discuss "problems in living". That is, he's assuming that all physical illnesses conform to Koch's postulates or something (x germ = y disorder; or w lesion = z dysfunction).
https://depts.washington.edu/psychres/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/100-Papers-in-Clinical-Psychiatry-Conceptual-issues-in-psychiatry-The-Myth-of-Mental-Illness.pdf
eta:
https://www.upstate.edu/psych/pdf/szasz/pies-on-myths-countermyths.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain#Use_of_ketamine_questioned
I think Szasz doesn't present a good example of a non mental illness, though he does discuss "problems in living". That is, he's assuming that all physical illnesses conform to Koch's postulates or something (x germ = y disorder; or w lesion = z dysfunction).
https://depts.washington.edu/psychres/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/100-Papers-in-Clinical-Psychiatry-Conceptual-issues-in-psychiatry-The-Myth-of-Mental-Illness.pdf
eta:
https://www.upstate.edu/psych/pdf/szasz/pies-on-myths-countermyths.pdf
Spoiler: to look at later (click to show/hide)
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English & Linguistics / Re: PartiallyClips that are either not filthy or really really funny
« on: December 24, 2023, 10:21:30 PM »
This link appears to work currently:
https://tapas.io/series/559/info
https://tapas.io/series/559/info
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English & Linguistics / Système International
« on: December 24, 2023, 10:09:57 PM »
These colorful circles caught my eye... Though I can't quite recall how I wound up looking at cases... Oh, I was trying to figure out why RN preceded Re in an ostensibly alphabetical sorting of labels. And that led me to a wikipedia article about letter case. I guess in the era in which this electronic medical record software was birthed, all capital letters are capitalized before all lower case letters. And now, I finally know why we are supposed to type in caps lock by default (at this job). I knew that you had to be in caps lock to enter provider labels. What a sad revelation.
Well, anyway, my question is why mL has a capital L when it isn't derived from the name of a person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Unit_symbols_and_prefixes_in_the_metric_system
P.S. I hope you appreciate the 3 tries it took me to type my subject title correctly.
Well, anyway, my question is why mL has a capital L when it isn't derived from the name of a person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Unit_symbols_and_prefixes_in_the_metric_system
P.S. I hope you appreciate the 3 tries it took me to type my subject title correctly.
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English & Linguistics / Re: What happened to "You're welcome"?
« on: December 24, 2023, 09:37:50 PM »
***Check posting dates***
I was looking for a thread about typography.
And I saw this thread and it made me wistful.
But also, it's now a hit song which briefly made a lot of people say "you're welcome" but also made it weird for people to say you're welcome.
I was looking for a thread about typography.
And I saw this thread and it made me wistful.
But also, it's now a hit song which briefly made a lot of people say "you're welcome" but also made it weird for people to say you're welcome.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Word and phrase misuse
« on: August 24, 2023, 12:09:42 AM »
Now this guy is saying Diphtheria starts with dif and not dip sounds. Though he also said Alabama borders Arkansas, which is not quite true, and if it were, there's a mile wide river between. (This is the chapter on infectious disease).
"Give him a hand! He's British!"
"Give him a hand! He's British!"
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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: August 22, 2023, 10:31:32 PM »
I never heard of that one. It seems like possible mispronunciations would be the main appeal to school children. Does canard rhyme with anything potentially shocking in french?
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: August 22, 2023, 09:55:42 PM »Quote
Huh. I had no idea that orca was derived from orc.Wow!
But why is the ear of corn called a cob? Is it because it's cobbled? (I fell into the cobbler discussion from many years ago on another thread).
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English & Linguistics / Re: Wordle et al.
« on: August 22, 2023, 09:53:19 PM »
My games of choice these days are weekly squardle, and duotrigordle jumble. Squardle doesn't have ads. Daily squardle is 3x3 5 letter words, and weekly squardle is 5x5 5 letter words.
duotrigordle jumble is fun to see if you can go through without any other strikes. There is a perfect challenge duotrigordle, where your first word (if a cromulent 5 letter word) is all green. I haven't gotten the hang of how to win that.
The trouble is I was starting to waste a serious amount of time playing duotrigordle, since games generally take 10-15 minutes, so by the time I'd done the daily, the daily sequence, and the daily jumble, and a perfect challenge, I was on my phone using my fingers for an hour. Sorry about that oxford comma. I felt it was warranted by the number of words in each list item.
duotrigordle jumble is fun to see if you can go through without any other strikes. There is a perfect challenge duotrigordle, where your first word (if a cromulent 5 letter word) is all green. I haven't gotten the hang of how to win that.
The trouble is I was starting to waste a serious amount of time playing duotrigordle, since games generally take 10-15 minutes, so by the time I'd done the daily, the daily sequence, and the daily jumble, and a perfect challenge, I was on my phone using my fingers for an hour. Sorry about that oxford comma. I felt it was warranted by the number of words in each list item.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: August 22, 2023, 09:46:28 PM »
Catching up, on the alphabet:
I use the distribution of vowels to alphabetize things into 5 stacks, then those stacks can be broken into 5-7 stacks. I'm glad I don't still work in jobs where I used this a lot. In my very first couple jobs, I had an alphabetizing sleeve. I would dream of having a rack, but those are quite fussy.
I have a set of wordle tiles in my wallet for when I feel like I should be able to get a word on a 3rd guess but it's evading me. They are sorted into vowel initial groups. I haven't bothered using it since curation started.
I use the distribution of vowels to alphabetize things into 5 stacks, then those stacks can be broken into 5-7 stacks. I'm glad I don't still work in jobs where I used this a lot. In my very first couple jobs, I had an alphabetizing sleeve. I would dream of having a rack, but those are quite fussy.
I have a set of wordle tiles in my wallet for when I feel like I should be able to get a word on a 3rd guess but it's evading me. They are sorted into vowel initial groups. I haven't bothered using it since curation started.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: August 22, 2023, 09:38:20 PM »
m-w conjectures:
Spoiler: hiding my shame in using the literal dictionary (click to show/hide)
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English & Linguistics / Re: Word and phrase misuse
« on: August 22, 2023, 09:32:30 PM »
This seems the best place to discuss a word that supposedly means something I didn't know it meant until this, my 54th year. (I don't mean dildo, people got on my case about that, which I was using to mean "doofus" in high school).
The strict or archaic meaning of flavor was smell, taste, and other qualities combined, and meant smell/scent more than taste, as well as character (such as of a neighborhood).
I'm reading about this in Bill Bryson's "The Body: a guide for occupants" which I generally enjoy due to his frequent tracking down of myths to old but unfounded publications, i.e. that tongues have zones for different taste receptors.
These two ideas together make me wonder, if one is saying that taste can only be sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami, if umami really is a taste in this sense (of the word)*, or if this is like how all colors are made from red, green, blue and then light or its absence. I shall read on and maybe find out. The wikipedia page on taste receptors indicates that sweet and bitter are the foundational receptors in mammals.
Definitely a tomato [fruit] and tomato [vegetable] distinction.
*eta
The strict or archaic meaning of flavor was smell, taste, and other qualities combined, and meant smell/scent more than taste, as well as character (such as of a neighborhood).
I'm reading about this in Bill Bryson's "The Body: a guide for occupants" which I generally enjoy due to his frequent tracking down of myths to old but unfounded publications, i.e. that tongues have zones for different taste receptors.
These two ideas together make me wonder, if one is saying that taste can only be sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami, if umami really is a taste in this sense (of the word)*, or if this is like how all colors are made from red, green, blue and then light or its absence. I shall read on and maybe find out. The wikipedia page on taste receptors indicates that sweet and bitter are the foundational receptors in mammals.
Definitely a tomato [fruit] and tomato [vegetable] distinction.
*eta
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: July 10, 2023, 01:41:23 AM »
Orcas Island is not the same as orca the sea mammal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcas_Island
https://www.etymonline.com/word/orca#:~:text=%22killer%20whale%2C%22%20introduced%20as,sea%20monsters%20(see%20orc).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcas_Island
https://www.etymonline.com/word/orca#:~:text=%22killer%20whale%2C%22%20introduced%20as,sea%20monsters%20(see%20orc).