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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« Last post by Jonathon on June 03, 2024, 04:08:38 PM »I don't think I've encountered "narc" to mean "narcissist".
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« Last post by pooka 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...
« Last post by pooka 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
« Last post by pooka 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: I hate journalistic writing
« Last post by Jonathon on April 05, 2024, 08:21:25 AM »A classic.
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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Last post by Jonathon on March 15, 2024, 03:10:36 PM »
Mouseover text: Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« Last post by Tante Shvester on February 26, 2024, 10:39:33 AM »There's the Papper and the Capper.
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« Last post by pooka 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
« Last post by pooka 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.