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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: January 11, 2026, 09:01:20 AM »
Quote from: Tante Shvester on September 09, 2025, 10:30:25 AM
Sacrum, meaning butt, is from the same root word as Sacred.  It's not the first part that I think of when I think of what parts of the body might be the holiest, but I guess tastes vary.

I mean, it's not as holey as the face, maybe.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
« on: November 24, 2025, 07:16:52 AM »
Headline I saw today:

"Migraine Triggers May Have an Unexpected Twist"

The article was about how "surprisal" often led to migraine attacks in patients with chronic migraine, maybe and that the unexpectedness of the trigger seemed to matter more than the trigger itself.

I feel like this is a missed opportunity for "Migraine Triggers Have a Surprise Twist."

Unexpected is fine. Surprise would have been better with how often they used the word surprisal.

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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 »
Quote from: Tante Shvester on May 19, 2021, 09:50:40 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.”

 :D :D :D

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: April 28, 2021, 09:08:46 AM »
 :D

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: June 15, 2020, 05:15:18 AM »
 :innocent:

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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 »
Quote
[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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