Author Topic: Funny English and Linguistics stuff... (Read 204029 times)

BlackBlade · « **Reply #700 on:** February 21, 2013, 08:38:42 PM »

Seriously!

Jonathon · « **Reply #701 on:** February 28, 2013, 09:54:45 AM »

BlackBlade · « **Reply #702 on:** February 28, 2013, 11:47:48 AM »

Oh man, that made my head hurt.

Jonathon · « **Reply #703 on:** March 05, 2013, 09:17:14 AM »

Microsoft Word traps itself in an infinite loop

BlackBlade · « **Reply #704 on:** March 05, 2013, 09:46:54 AM »

Making fun of Microsoft is a bit overdone, but ha!

Jonathon · « **Reply #705 on:** March 13, 2013, 11:48:21 AM »

Anna · « **Reply #706 on:** March 15, 2013, 08:44:42 AM »

BlackBlade · « **Reply #707 on:** March 23, 2013, 07:15:35 AM »

So I was dreaming last night, and to the best of my recollection it was about two women who needed to do an autopsy on a dead animal. There was an actual voice narrating the events of the dream. One didn't want to do it, then the narrator said,

"Julie though was more miradeller about it."

I'm sure my brain made up that word, and I don't know how the word would be spelled if it existed. But it was pronounced me-ruh-deller. I woke up convinced that maybe my brain had recalled a word that I had just forgotten, as that can happen when I dream in Chinese. But no, it doesn't exist. It's supposed to mean the opposite of "squeamish" at least, that's the feeling my brain gave me.

I kind of like the sound of the word. At first pass, I'm not exactly sure what the synonyms would be for miradeller, which makes me want it to exist as a word even more.

Brinestone · « **Reply #708 on:** March 23, 2013, 10:41:36 AM »

That's really cool. You should start using it in conversation when the opportunity arises.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #709 on:** March 23, 2013, 11:05:38 AM »

I just might!

Jonathon · « **Reply #710 on:** March 25, 2013, 11:49:18 AM »

rivka · « **Reply #711 on:** March 25, 2013, 02:07:41 PM »

pooka · « **Reply #712 on:** April 03, 2013, 01:26:12 PM »

Today I was reading a study about three factor eating questionnaires given to twins in Finland, and it came up that they had to rank things pleasant and unpleasant, because Finnish has no word for "dislike".

Jonathon · « **Reply #713 on:** April 03, 2013, 02:17:42 PM »

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #714 on:** April 16, 2013, 10:14:44 AM »

I was reading my Random House Unabridged Dictionary last night, and I came across that there are 119 different definitions for the word "set". So then I dragged down my Oxford English Dictionary, to see what they came up with. The OED goes on for 23 pages of "set". That seems like an awful lot of freight to load onto such a little word. I did not read all 23 pages, I just counted them.

Jonathon · « **Reply #715 on:** April 16, 2013, 11:28:47 AM »

According to an editor at Merriam-Webster, set has the most definitions of anything in their dictionaries, though I think she said that might change in the new unabridged dictionary.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #716 on:** April 16, 2013, 12:56:45 PM »

I didn't know it had the most definitions. I notice when a word has an unusually large number of definitions and last night was the first time I noticed just how many "set" had.

Jonathon · « **Reply #717 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:49:30 PM »

Nighthawk · « **Reply #718 on:** April 30, 2013, 05:39:38 PM »

Spoiler: It must be a gourmet German... thing... (click to show/hide)

rivka · « **Reply #719 on:** April 30, 2013, 05:42:55 PM »

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/knish

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #720 on:** May 01, 2013, 08:45:37 AM »

If the "k" isn't going to be silent in "knish", then I think it has no business being silent in "knife" or "knight" or any of those other "kn" words. I think I'll pronounce those with the sounded "k" for a while and see if that lands up catching on.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #721 on:** May 02, 2013, 12:19:24 AM »

I'll have a stofed potato plz.

Jonathon · « **Reply #722 on:** June 02, 2013, 08:13:00 PM »

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #723 on:** June 26, 2013, 08:58:05 PM »

My son gave me a cute definition of "deluxe". He says it means "with French fries".

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #724 on:** July 02, 2013, 10:06:14 AM »

I hadn't realized how much "veterans" can sound like "Bedouins" until I misheard my son talking about how the veterans need more access to therapists, and our conversations got more and more skewed and screwy until we managed to sort out the problem.

I think we all should get paid time-and-a-half for working on Bedouins Day.