Dev Announcements for Increasing Vocabulary
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Arctic_Princess,
Posted on: 2009-05-06 10:44 in Suggestions and Ideas
And 'lascivious', too.
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a excellent Idea do we get a badge with it?
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I will return before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism...
Actually I dare say that some anti-MA posters could probably introduce the word 'floccinaucinihilipilification' into their posts and use it correctly...
Maybe Posi was just throwing down a linguistic gauntlet and wishes to see how the players respond.
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Mayby...
In that case I would certainly like to offer Positron my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.
(Ok, enough with the blackadder quotes...)
I wonder what "Vocbulary" means?
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It's an ancient Urdu word loosely meaning "I see no ninja editing of thread titles to erase typos".
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It's an ancient Urdu word loosely meaning "I see no ninja editing of thread titles to erase typos".
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Ha ha I went back to check. No ninjas here... move alo...
Who threw that shuriken?!
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sorry, force of habbit '^.^
Also, consider the word "Shardenfreude"
*throws smoke bomb, chokes on fumes, wanders off aimlessly*
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Also, consider the word "Shardenfreude"
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Sorry to pick holes in use of another language, but: Schadenfreude. Kudos on the phonetic spelling, however.
Now, to lighten the mood with a related Simpsons quote: "Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! "
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Also, consider the word "Shardenfreude"
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Sorry to pick holes in use of another language, but: Schadenfreude. Kudos on the phonetic spelling, however.
Now, to lighten the mood with a related Simpsons quote: "Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! "
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Except for 'fluffy'* 
I, personally, would like to see the word 'obstreperous' used more. And possibly 'querulous'.
*Yes, I know they do. But never let facts get in the way of a humourous quote!
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
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I, personally, would like to see the word 'obstreperous' used more. And possibly 'querulous'.
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So if you want to complain about noisy (=obstreperous) whining (=querulous), those are the words to use in future.
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Also, consider the word "Shardenfreude"
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Sorry to pick holes in use of another language, but: Schadenfreude. Kudos on the phonetic spelling, however.
Now, to lighten the mood with a related Simpsons quote: "Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! "
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Thats what I get for never seeing the word written down 
Usually it's the oposit that gets me (seeing the written word, then trying to use it in conversation and pronouce it incorrectly, like effigy 
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Also, consider the word "Shardenfreude"
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Sorry to pick holes in use of another language, but: Schadenfreude. Kudos on the phonetic spelling, however.
Now, to lighten the mood with a related Simpsons quote: "Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! "
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Thats what I get for never seeing the word written down
Usually it's the oposit that gets me (seeing the written word, then trying to use it in conversation and pronouce it incorrectly, like effigy )
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Have to hold my hands up to that one in days gone by presuming 'Ethereal' was Ether-real.
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Have to hold my hands up to that one in days gone by presuming 'Ethereal' was Ether-real.
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Erm... it is?
Try definition 4:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ethereal
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Proper way: Eeth-ear-ee-al
My original way: Eth-er-real.
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This reminds me of when the British media were trying to define Gordon Brown as dour and they kept describing him as do-er rather than daw-er, as I knew the word : http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dour the two pronunciations are on the little speaker icons, so I guess both are valid.
I think you'd have got away with your version of ethereal, I think I thought it was that way too, having read it in books but having had no opportunity to say it aloud. That's going back some.
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This reminds me of when the British media were trying to define Gordon Brown as dour and they kept describing him as do-er rather than daw-er, as I knew the word : http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dour the two pronunciations are on the little speaker icons, so I guess both are valid.
I think you'd have got away with your version of ethereal, I think I thought it was that way too, having read it in books but having had no opportunity to say it aloud. That's going back some.
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dour, rhymes with hour
dour, sounds like poor
I believe the latter is the Scots pronunciation. At least, I'm Scottish, and that is pretty much how everyone says it around here, unless they've got a "phone voice" on or something.
@craggy see me on Union for TFs, SFs (please!) or just some good ol fashioned teaming.
These are all perfectly cromulant words. Neologism too.
Some of the talk about mispronunciation sounds like extreme hyper-bowl-ee to me.
Think the worst I noticed in the past were usually US placenames - some of the rivers/lakes etc with indian names seem to be pronounced very differently to anything I could imagine from the spelling. Heck - even Arkansas seems a little odd when you first hit it and know the straightforward Kansas.
Guess there's probably enough placenames with odd pronunciations in the UK - but I don't notice them as much having grown up with them.
Though there are also some great English names and surnames with wild and wacky pronunciation - IIRC this is part of the reason why English names get a whole chapter to themselves in Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue.
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Though there are also some great English names and surnames with wild and wacky pronunciation - IIRC this is part of the reason why English names get a whole chapter to themselves in Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue.
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Notes From A Small Island is one of the few books that makes me chuckle away out loud while I'm reading it.
Which causes odd situations on the train.
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These are all perfectly cromulant words.
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Isn't that like some kind of Hyborean adjective?
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These are all perfectly cromulant words.
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Isn't that like some kind of Hyborean adjective?
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One of the best aspects of Positron's post about MA exploitation abuse has been that it's introduced a new word to so many people.
Previously I'd see the word 'egregious' once every blue moon - but now I'd be surprised if anyone reading the EU/US forums in the past day doesn't know the word. Heck - there's been times in the US thread that see the words egregious or egregiously used five or more times in a single post!
I'd like to suggest that the devs make a controversial post at least once a month (once a week would be great) and that they try to include words that may be new to a great subset of their audience. A kind of 'word of the week' or 'word of the month' system to help educate us as we flame.
Can I also suggest 'apocryphal' for the word list.
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