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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« on: May 28, 2025, 01:50:08 PM »

Daniel's school counselor pronounced at least 2/3 of her N's with a little bit of an ng. She kept asking if we had any questiongs. It was subtle but interesting.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« on: May 20, 2025, 06:06:36 PM »

That is almost impossible to make sense of.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert

« on: February 06, 2024, 07:07:07 AM »

Yes, the comma is incorrect.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Wordle et al.

« on: June 03, 2023, 07:35:52 PM »

My starting word is PIANO, followed by QUERY. It's a very effective combo, and it makes me smile because I have a personal connection to both words. Though, I don't play very often anymore.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing

« on: March 02, 2023, 02:37:28 PM »

Man, they couldn't make that sound more like Perf if they tried.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« on: December 06, 2022, 12:39:59 PM »

Man, now I wish donzerly was a word and that it meant that.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: September 14, 2022, 07:14:58 PM »

This reminds me somehow of Lego and Duplo's made-up contractions, like "it's'n't" for "it isn't."

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English & Linguistics / Re: Is there a word for that?

« on: March 15, 2022, 10:53:29 AM »

Is there a single adjective for "feeling a sense of belonging"?

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing

« on: May 19, 2021, 11:23:00 AM »

I know!  It's full of gorgeous lines like:

“It’s this gender-bending, death-zombie fungus”

“I thought, ‘oh crap: The DEA is going to come in here, tase me, and confiscate my flying saltshakers,’”

“Imagine if, after a lifetime underground, you only had a few glorious weeks to live in the sun, eat and mate,” she said. “And then your butt fell off.”

 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: April 28, 2021, 09:08:46 AM »

 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: June 15, 2020, 05:15:18 AM »

 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: June 12, 2020, 05:35:05 AM »

And their butts hanging out.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: May 15, 2020, 05:11:40 PM »

Nope.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: January 16, 2020, 12:50:43 PM »

*backs away slowly*

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English & Linguistics / Re: New column-type thingy

« on: September 09, 2019, 08:46:28 AM »

Huh. Maybe they disagree but don't want to argue with a coworker? But you use Chicago there, right? Maybe they don't really get the jokes and are embarrassed to say so? But then I think they'd at least like it to hide that they don't get it.

Huh.

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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day

« on: May 08, 2019, 06:30:04 AM »

Pomegranate, pineapple

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« on: June 18, 2018, 01:34:26 PM »

Crazy! That's so cool!

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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day

« on: April 10, 2018, 07:07:42 PM »

I just looked up the word camaraderie to see how it was spelled (I totally botched it, by the way). In the process, I found that comradery is apparently a less common but not exactly wrong variant.

And when I was in the process of googling to see which of the two was preferred, I found out that camarade is a French word for, well, comrade, derived from the Latin camera, meaning chamber. So a comrade is someone who shares a room with you, and a camera is a thing with a chamber for the light to be captured in.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« on: April 07, 2018, 07:58:59 AM »

Yes.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: February 21, 2018, 03:18:55 PM »

[Software] possesses a high level of redundancy across the organization across different areas.

A high level of redundancy, you say? 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Endure to the End— need a term

« on: February 19, 2018, 07:16:53 AM »

Faithfulness, madam. He spoke of your enduring faithfulness.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Endure to the End— need a term

« on: February 19, 2018, 07:07:42 AM »

Persistence? Perseverance? Longsuffering?

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English & Linguistics / Re: New column-type thingy

« on: November 21, 2017, 05:39:39 AM »

Have you met Kory in person at ACES or anything like that before?

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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day

« on: October 20, 2017, 11:41:04 AM »

I learned that "Episcopal" comes from "having the characteristics of bishops", which strikes me as hilarious, because where I used to live there was an Episcopal church that was built diagonally on  a corner lot.

www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=Episcopal

I love how your brain works.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« on: May 01, 2017, 11:55:12 AM »

Awesome.