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A word for everything
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- Lemon Half
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A word for everything
We seem to have a word for everything ... or do we?
What about a "parwelywig" - this is the walk someone makes when they are wearing wellies which don't fit them at the top.
I'm copyrighting the word - you heard it here first
AiY
What about a "parwelywig" - this is the walk someone makes when they are wearing wellies which don't fit them at the top.
I'm copyrighting the word - you heard it here first
AiY
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Re: A word for everything
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/blog/20 ... ble-words/
I do like Mångata.
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifes ... alent.html
27. Aware (Not what you’d think)
I do like Mångata.
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifes ... alent.html
27. Aware (Not what you’d think)
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Re: A word for everything
English is a very adaptive language. Anything becomes an English word by common usage. The owner of this site has already added one word to the language. Maybe we can do a few more.
Whether you live in a castle, a bungalow or a yacht. Pull on your pyjamas and enjoy a curry and a lager. What could be more English?
My favourite obscure word is nacarat - the golden red colour of flame.
Gryff
Whether you live in a castle, a bungalow or a yacht. Pull on your pyjamas and enjoy a curry and a lager. What could be more English?
My favourite obscure word is nacarat - the golden red colour of flame.
Gryff
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Re: A word for everything
Medical conditions that you can only catch in hypochondriac Germany: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/611 ... own-german . I particularly like Ichschmerz ("oh god, I'm so woefully tired of myself") and Kreislaufzusammenbruch (“circulatory collapse”), which sounds fatal until you realise it's just "I'm feeling a bit off colour, I think I'll take the day off".
And then there's Verschlimmbessern (German, obviously): "To make something worse while trying to improve it".
Closely related to Kaputtverbessern, which is when you totally wreck something because you haven't a clue what you're supposed to be doing.
Or, as we used to say during my biking days, "if it ain't broke, fix it till it is."
BJ
And then there's Verschlimmbessern (German, obviously): "To make something worse while trying to improve it".
Closely related to Kaputtverbessern, which is when you totally wreck something because you haven't a clue what you're supposed to be doing.
Or, as we used to say during my biking days, "if it ain't broke, fix it till it is."
BJ
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Re: A word for everything
Predantic -
The act of pulling someone up on a detail of their grammar or diction, before quickly making a separate grammar or diction error yourself...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
The act of pulling someone up on a detail of their grammar or diction, before quickly making a separate grammar or diction error yourself...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
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Re: A word for everything
Itsallaguess wrote:Predantic -
The act of pulling someone up on a detail of their grammar or diction, before quickly making a separate grammar or diction error yourself...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
Shirley yon's Muphry's Law?
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Re: A word for everything
UncleEbenezer wrote:Onomatopoeia - the effect of too much ISIHAC.
And its opposite nonomatopoeia
- as in "that bit of wood doesn't sound like the plank it is"
-sd
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Re: A word for everything
Pedantalist-
A list of people who have previously pulled you up on an element of diction or grammar, and who's posts you now methodically scour in the hope of quickly catching them out in return..
:O)
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
A list of people who have previously pulled you up on an element of diction or grammar, and who's posts you now methodically scour in the hope of quickly catching them out in return..
:O)
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
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Re: A word for everything
Itsallaguess wrote:Pedantalist-
A list of people who have previously pulled you up on an element of diction or grammar, and who's posts you now methodically scour in the hope of quickly catching them out in return..
:O)
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
Oops !!!!!
--kiloran
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Re: A word for everything
kiloran wrote:[
quote="Itsallaguess"][
b]Pedantalist[/b]-
A list of people who have previously pulled you up on an element of diction or grammar, and who's posts you now methodically scour in the hope of quickly catching them out in return..
:O)/quote]
Oops !!!!!
It's a good job I"ve got a big sheet of paper....
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Re: A word for everything
bungeejumper wrote:Medical conditions that you can only catch in hypochondriac Germany: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/611 ... own-german . I particularly like Ichschmerz ("oh god, I'm so woefully tired of myself") and Kreislaufzusammenbruch (“circulatory collapse”), which sounds fatal until you realise it's just "I'm feeling a bit off colour, I think I'll take the day off".
And then there's Verschlimmbessern (German, obviously): "To make something worse while trying to improve it".
Closely related to Kaputtverbessern, which is when you totally wreck something because you haven't a clue what you're supposed to be doing.
Or, as we used to say during my biking days, "if it ain't broke, fix it till it is."
BJ
Verschlimmbessern
I do know this one - one of my favourites, as often applicable in the engineering/IT fields
(although as Verschlimmbesserung which I assume is the noun , the 'improvement' often known as a software patch ... )
German grammar is not my strong point - would one Verschlimmbessern something to achieve a Verschlimmbesserung??!!
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Re: A word for everything
One from my drinking days and AFAIK invented by myself:
Grogmeister
A generic term for canned lager.
RC
Grogmeister
A generic term for canned lager.
RC
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Re: A word for everything
One I use (which is my own, but probably not original)
Drizzmal (adj)
Typical British summer weather, grey with light rain.
"Another drizzmal day, typically I'm on holiday"
Drizzmal (adj)
Typical British summer weather, grey with light rain.
"Another drizzmal day, typically I'm on holiday"
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Re: A word for everything
Itsallaguess wrote:Predantic -
The act of pulling someone up on a detail of their grammar or diction, before quickly making a separate grammar or diction error yourself...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
Also encapsulated as Muphry's Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
VRD
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Re: A word for everything
(from BJ's link)
15. TORSCHLUSSPANIK
Torschlusspanik or “gate closing panic” is the anxiety-inducing awareness that as time goes on, life’s opportunities just keep getting fewer and fewer and there’s no way to know which ones you should be taking before they close forever.
That perfectly describes how I feel, having recently turned 56
15. TORSCHLUSSPANIK
Torschlusspanik or “gate closing panic” is the anxiety-inducing awareness that as time goes on, life’s opportunities just keep getting fewer and fewer and there’s no way to know which ones you should be taking before they close forever.
That perfectly describes how I feel, having recently turned 56
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