January 21, 2014
— Ace I love Wikipedia. I actually love it. I get lost for hours in it.
It's just so amazing: Virtually every subject you could possibly have an interest in, briefly explained, all at your fingertips.
A gigantic hyperlinked encyclopedia.
So, here's what I discovered today. Actually, I discovered four things, but this is the most interesting, I think.
Anyone ever hear of the "frequentive form" of a word? It's a process by which one inflect a word to indicate repeated or intense action.
This is actually a thing in English. Or at least it was. In older versions of English, you could just add -le or -er to a verb (usually a verb) to indicate a repeated action of that verb. You'd have to make some minor spelling changes to make sure the word flowed properly.
Now, we can't do this anymore. I can't say that I wankle instead of "wank" to indicate the repetitive mechanical fury with which I abuse myself, whirring and sparking like a misfiring industrial robot.
But you used to be able to do this in English, and everyone would understand what you were saying, because people understood the convention of adding -er or -le to a verb to indicate frequency or intensity.
But some "frequentive" forms of words became so widespread that they became words in their own right, which survive in English to this day. A great list is here, but here are some of my favorites:
bat --> batter. Repeatedly bat.
pat --> patter. Repeatedly pat. Like rain on a roof.
swathe --> swaddle. Repeatedly swathe.
wrest (as in seize) --> wrestle. Vigorously, continue "wrest" someone.
daze --> dazzle.
crack --> crackle. Okay that one is obvious, but did you know there was a specific rule for forming the frequentive form? So shut up.
bob --> bobble.
jig (the dance step or skip) --> jiggle.
float --> flutter. (How awesome is that?)
gleam --> glimmer. It's so obvious now, isn't it?
wade --> waddle. There you go. Makes perfect sense.
pool --> puddle. I guess it probably had a "poodle" transitional form.
Okay, now guess where jostle comes from, employing the rules and pattern above.
If you guessed
joust --> jostle
...then you guessed right.
Here's my absolute favorite. They slightly changed the spelling here, as they did with "swathe" and "puddle."
But you know where slither comes from?
Guess.
Well, here's the answer:
slide --> slither
Is this awesome or am I just easily amused?
The Problem Is... Per "Tom Delay," in the comments:
The problem with wikipedia is it's a a vast sinkhole of information. You
look up one thing and suddenly it's 4 hours later and you're reading an article on Antman.
Literally LOLed, because yeah, I've done that. And I did end up on Antman.
On this timesuck phenomenon of the "Wikiwander," Last Refuge of a Scoundrel sends this blogger's recounting of the various odd places that Wikipedia hyperlinks have taken him.
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Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 03:49 PM (doBIb)
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Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 03:53 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 03:54 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Average Moron at January 21, 2014 03:55 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 07:49 PM (/FnUH)
Dude, I still read dictionaries. For fun.
I'm in no position to judge.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 03:55 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 03:56 PM (ZPrif)
Not only did I take courses with Tom Nichols, I also took courses on the history and structure of the English language with a semi-esteemed professor by the name of William Donoghue.
The Great Vowel Shift, are any of you aware of it?
Posted by: soothsayer at January 21, 2014 03:56 PM (gYIst)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 03:56 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 21, 2014 03:56 PM (P6QsQ)
http://tinyurl.com/k8wfvld
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 03:56 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 03:57 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 21, 2014 03:57 PM (HsTG8)
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Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 21, 2014 03:59 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 03:59 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 03:59 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Tom Delay at January 21, 2014 04:00 PM (hFL/3)
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Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:01 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 21, 2014 04:01 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 04:01 PM (E4MKN)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 21, 2014 04:01 PM (HVff2)
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Posted by: grammie winger at January 21, 2014 04:01 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Tom Delay at January 21, 2014 08:00 PM (hFL/3)
just don't look up anything you're an "expert" on.
Trust me here.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:01 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Þe Political Hat at January 21, 2014 04:02 PM (XvHmy)
Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 04:02 PM (E4MKN)
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Posted by: traye at January 21, 2014 04:04 PM (0o1vp)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:04 PM (/FnUH)
Unless you are looking for political stuff Wikipedia is a great resource. I'm a keen gardener so a lot of the time I start there first.
Posted by: Decaf at January 21, 2014 08:03 PM (6wg34)
just don't look up any historical figures of any even remote note. All have leftist twists and omissions.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:04 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Lauren at January 21, 2014 04:04 PM (hFL/3)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:04 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Boone at January 21, 2014 04:05 PM (AeoaE)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 21, 2014 04:05 PM (P6QsQ)
GVS is actually complicated and you need a chart to help understand it. Wiki does a poor job of explaining, as with everything they attempt to explain.
It has to do with sound changes. Fricatives, and all that shit.
Posted by: soothsayer at January 21, 2014 04:05 PM (gYIst)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 21, 2014 04:05 PM (HsTG8)
Pssst.
Wanna see my OED? Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 21, 2014 08:01 PM (yz6yg)
Why, yes, yes, I do.
Knowing stuff is awesome.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 04:06 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 04:06 PM (E4MKN)
Trust me here.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 08:01 PM (x3YFz)
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:07 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:07 PM (yz6yg)
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Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 21, 2014 04:07 PM (aDwsi)
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Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 21, 2014 04:07 PM (+lsX1)
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Posted by: grammie winger at January 21, 2014 08:05 PM (P6QsQ)
Astute! You can use dialects and languages fairly well and apply them to geography. Throw a little bloodshed into the equation and you can track empires.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:08 PM (x3YFz)
The language that ruffies other languages, drags them into the alley, beats the crap out of them and then rummages through the pockets looking for words. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 07:54 PM (Gk3SS)
It beat the merde out of me and robbed me blind, the pig-dog.
Posted by: The French language at January 21, 2014 04:08 PM (R3gO3)
oh perfect! when in doubt, always look to Harvard:
forget wiki's explanation of GVS, here's a simple version of GVS
http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html
Posted by: soothsayer at January 21, 2014 04:08 PM (gYIst)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:08 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:09 PM (GEICT)
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Posted by: traye at January 21, 2014 04:10 PM (0o1vp)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 08:04 PM (GEICT)
Ah, the Sex for Money Skankathon 2014...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:10 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: .. Kempt, Sheveled, and Ruly at January 21, 2014 04:10 PM (NQyj0)
Sure your teacher says wikipedia isn't a source...but if you scroll on down to the bottom of the page you can site a "real" source without bothering to read it.
Not that I ever did that. No no no. Posted by: Lauren at January 21, 2014 08:04 PM (hFL/3
Once upon a time, I failed some students for handing in briefs that cited to Wikipedia. There was much bitching and moaning and I pointed out that the syllabus had in all caps and bold if you cite to Wikipedia you will receive a failing grade on the project.
Then I asked them why I had that rule. There was a bunch of not reliable, can be edited by anyone, not authoritative, not recognized source. I replied, yeah, sure, but the real reason you're failing is for not being smart enough to cite to the original source that Wikipedia is citing.
I swear I heard the pennies dropping.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 04:10 PM (Gk3SS)
Which, I guess comes from bug. As in, if you poke someone in the rear once, you're bugging them. In order to bugger, you must.... well, you know.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2014 04:11 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 04:11 PM (zXm/c)
Posted by: Decaf at January 21, 2014 04:11 PM (6wg34)
I fear for ace"s sanity.
Posted by: RWC at January 21, 2014 08:07 PM (Q6HBD)
Side note and totally disjointed from this conversation: Vortex was the name of an imaging satellite used by (insert 3 letter agency here) during the late 80's. It's declass. Every time I see the name I think of that and the KH11 Crystal.
/old school
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:11 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 04:12 PM (zXm/c)
Posted by: Ronster at January 21, 2014 04:12 PM (kj1eu)
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Posted by: Ned Flanders at January 21, 2014 04:13 PM (NQyj0)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 08:10 PM (yh0zB)
Wait, so we're pimping out BC and Bannion to get ace beejers?
I am strangely okay with that.
brb fetching purple felt hat with huge feather
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 04:13 PM (Gk3SS)
It's just a bunch of wimmins out there, shakin' 'em.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2014 04:14 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 04:14 PM (acQMa)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:14 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: The Universe. at January 21, 2014 04:14 PM (aDwsi)
I fear for ace"s sanity.
Posted by: RWC at January 21, 2014 08:07 PM (Q6HBD)
We need a Vegas Moron meet up. Everyone drops $100 for bail money first, though.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:15 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Kas(ktgreat) at January 21, 2014 04:15 PM (Bl4dy)
Posted by: God[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (zXm/c)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (uZ6Ul)
Posted by: The Universe. at January 21, 2014 08:14 PM (aDwsi)
mass of the electron.
O W N E D!
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (x3YFz)
"Sandra Fluke fuckled the entire Sixth Fleet on a Friday night"
is that using the frequentive form correctly?
Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Decaf at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (6wg34)
Posted by: a random aussie at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (vuh7l)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:16 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 21, 2014 04:17 PM (dvRYt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:17 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Lauren at January 21, 2014 04:17 PM (hFL/3)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 21, 2014 04:18 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Huggy Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:18 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2014 04:18 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 08:13 PM (Gk3SS)
You should have the purple rain outfit to go with that.
http://tinyurl.com/mbpalpq
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:19 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: RWC at January 21, 2014 04:19 PM (Q6HBD)
Actually I like learning the origins of things, so that's very cool. And ignore the haters Ace, brainy is the new sexy. You just need to go somewhere in NYC where somewhat intelligent females congregate, who appreciate a man taking interest in this sort of thing, and languages, and politics, but are not all hipster feminist libs trying to be pretentiously sophisticated. Not sure where this mythical land is but we'll find it for you...
The Edmund Burke section of the NY Public Library?
Posted by: LizLem at January 21, 2014 04:19 PM (BF+2f)
Posted by: --- at January 21, 2014 04:19 PM (MMC8r)
Tell me about it.
http://tinyurl.com/mpx3mbp
Spelling errors allowed for fap joke. AoSHQ #6-7/8s
Posted by: Jujiro Matsuda[/i][/b][/s] at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (DL2i+)
Btw, I support assange because that trumped up rape charge was such a joke.
Has anyone ever read why he was wanted "for arrest". It's a laugh in yr face joke if it wasn't so serious.
Posted by: prescient11 at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (tVTLU)
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/nei-ruffino-02.jpg
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (zXm/c)
Here's a bit of language trivia I picked up from a Bill Bryson book: In the Middle Ages, furniture, even the furniture in aristocratic castles, was pretty rough-hewn. Tables were basically just boards placed on saw horses, which could be cleared out of the way quickly, since "great halls" were used for dining and sleeping. The dinner guests gnawing on slabs on meat sat on long benches. Chairs were rare and normally reserved for the Lord of the Manor - or the Chairman of the Board.
That's also why we say "room and board." I find it fascinating that a term used to describe dining arrangements in the 12th century has survived as a business term into the 21st, even though the feminists now insist on "chair" instead of "chairman."
Posted by: Donna V. at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Harry from Searchlight at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2014 04:20 PM (uZ6Ul)
I see pot use is more widespread than I had imagined.
Radical steps may be called for. Radical steps.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 21, 2014 04:21 PM (BZAd3)
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 08:15 PM (x3YFz)
yeah...that's not gonna be nearly enough...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:21 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:22 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at January 21, 2014 04:22 PM (h53OH)
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/pgmc01.html#1_5
Apparently most languages are "government" languages: the verb governs - controls - what is the subject and what is the object. This is true of base Indo-European as well. ... using the classical, 1800s definition of "Indo-European".
But if we expand "Indo-European" to include the newly-discovered language Hittite: we get a pre-Indo-European. Because Hittite split off before our ancestors invented the horse-drawn chariot. And pre-Indo-European was not a government-language. It was an agreement-language, where the verb might change based on whether it dealt with an animate or an inanimate subject.
I suspect that proto-Afro-Asiatic was similar. It blew my mind when I found out that Hebrew had a feminine verb form. Turns out same is true of Arabic. Which means it goes back to Semitic. And maybe Egyptian / Coptic, and Berber.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 04:22 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 04:22 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Decaf at January 21, 2014 04:22 PM (6wg34)
Posted by: RWC at January 21, 2014 08:19 PM (Q6HBD)
Maybe.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 08:20 PM (GEICT)
We time it up to coincide with SHOT show 2015 and the annual Pr0n extravaganza at the Hard Rock. What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:23 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:23 PM (yz6yg)
You brought it up.
So to speak.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at January 21, 2014 04:23 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: logprof at January 21, 2014 04:23 PM (X3GkB)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:23 PM (GEICT)
"Sandra Fluke fuckled the entire Sixth Fleet on a Friday night"
I hear she suckled them too.
Posted by: no good deed at January 21, 2014 04:23 PM (vBhbc)
You want another interesting timesuck?
I present to you the Etymology dictionary. Be prepared to be un-bored for a while.
http://www.etymonline.com/
Posted by: soothsayer at January 21, 2014 04:23 PM (gYIst)
The history of language is fascinating, one reason being it acts as a track of migrating populations. The conquerors and the conquered.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 21, 2014 08:05 PM
_____________________
Alle bør være snakker norsk!!!
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 21, 2014 04:24 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at January 21, 2014 04:24 PM (h53OH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:24 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:24 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: nannieboobot at January 21, 2014 04:24 PM (CUiZA)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper at January 21, 2014 04:25 PM (zXm/c)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:25 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 08:23 PM (x3YFz)
I love this plan! We should do this...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:25 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 21, 2014 04:25 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2014 04:25 PM (uZ6Ul)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 21, 2014 08:24 PM (jucos)
tfk did he just call me?
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:26 PM (x3YFz)
Especially the lesbian-linked ones.
So I've been told.
By a stranger.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 21, 2014 04:26 PM (vuh7l)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 04:26 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:26 PM (yz6yg)
The more you know!
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 21, 2014 08:23 PM (yz6yg)
Same in NC...as long as the bar isn't posted...
*looks pointedly at EC*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:26 PM (yh0zB)
Firefox with one tab open to AoSHQ
And the other to wikipedia.
Four hours is for pikers.
On a snowy day....8 hours easy.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, heteronormative vagitarien at January 21, 2014 04:27 PM (kFCo1)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 04:28 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Fox2! at January 21, 2014 04:28 PM (cHwSy)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:28 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, heteronormative vagitarien at January 21, 2014 08:27 PM (kFCo1)
well...it did snow a little today...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:28 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 21, 2014 04:28 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: John Lennon at January 21, 2014 04:28 PM (XvHmy)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 04:29 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:29 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:29 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: JoeyBagels at January 21, 2014 04:29 PM (Usdw3)
And like spoken Arabic. In classical Arabic, it's S O V; it's only supposed to go SVO if you signal it in advance with inna, like in sura 4 (inna Allâha kâna...). But nobody speaks classical Arabic, nobody ever spoke classical Arabic. The Baghdad shopkeeper, who was probably ethnic Persian anyway, just used the SVO order and to Jahannam with starting inna.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 04:29 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 04:30 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 21, 2014 04:30 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 21, 2014 04:30 PM (SUKHu)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 04:30 PM (acQMa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:30 PM (GEICT)
http://tinyurl.com/kvv6gv5
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 04:31 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: BignJames at January 21, 2014 04:31 PM (j7iSn)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:31 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:31 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:32 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (zXm/c)
Posted by: Þe Political Hat at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (XvHmy)
"This one is gooder, but that one is the goodest!"
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (uZ6Ul)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 04:33 PM (doBIb)
Very good chance that I will come dow....
wait....
what were we talking about again?
Where am I?
I think I soiled myself.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, heteronormative vagitarien at January 21, 2014 04:34 PM (kFCo1)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:34 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 21, 2014 04:34 PM (SUKHu)
Fondle just means I really REALLY like the boys.
Posted by: Harry from Searchlight at January 21, 2014 08:20 PM (BeSEI)
Posted by: mugiwara at January 21, 2014 04:34 PM (3a584)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:34 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 04:35 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 21, 2014 04:35 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 21, 2014 04:35 PM (vuh7l)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:36 PM (/FnUH)
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We should start a support group. As a kid, I used to surf the pre-web web - also know as the Encyclopedia Britannica. When I was in the mood for pRon the other 23 hours a day, I would break out the old National Geographic issues.
Posted by: sluggo at January 21, 2014 04:36 PM (vVv3V)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 21, 2014 04:37 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:37 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 04:37 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 04:37 PM (g1DWB)
*looks at TR*
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 08:28 PM (doBIb)
lol...what made it worse...all of the parking garages are posted, too, so there wasn't even the option of locking it in the car.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:37 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: al roker at January 21, 2014 04:37 PM (vuh7l)
Posted by: Cicero Kid is NOT a cheese-perv. at January 21, 2014 04:37 PM (tcK++)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 04:38 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:38 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: ontherocks at January 21, 2014 04:38 PM (J2C8C)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:38 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: no good deed at January 21, 2014 04:38 PM (vBhbc)
Soothsayer here,
a couple of 9th century scandi explorers, Ohthere and Wulfstan, described the things they witnessed as they sailed along the coast of Finland or wherever.
They saw animals in the water they described as horse-whales...
walruses.
Posted by: soothsayer's improbable history at January 21, 2014 04:38 PM (gYIst)
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 21, 2014 04:38 PM (SUKHu)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 04:40 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:40 PM (/FnUH)
So ace are you going to watch the new season of King of the Nerds? You seemed to like the first one
Posted by: buzzion at January 21, 2014 04:41 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Lauren at January 21, 2014 04:41 PM (hFL/3)
Posted by: Decaf at January 21, 2014 04:41 PM (6wg34)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2014 04:41 PM (uZ6Ul)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 21, 2014 04:41 PM (pFqpP)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 21, 2014 04:42 PM (eQJwb)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:42 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 04:42 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:42 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:42 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 21, 2014 04:42 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 04:43 PM (TGgNi)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 21, 2014 04:43 PM (g4TxM)
Origin of SKEDADDLE
probably alteration of British dialect scaddle to run off in a fright, from scaddle, adjective, wild, timid, skittish, from Middle English scathel, skadylle harmful, fierce, wild, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skathi harm — more at scathe
First Known Use: 1860
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 21, 2014 04:43 PM (n0DEs)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 04:43 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 21, 2014 04:44 PM (SUKHu)
Posted by: Lauren at January 21, 2014 04:44 PM (hFL/3)
Posted by: ontherocks at January 21, 2014 04:44 PM (J2C8C)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:45 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 04:45 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 21, 2014 04:45 PM (84gbM)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 08:35 PM (doBIb)
buncha fucking horseshit right there.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:45 PM (x3YFz)
285 >>>So ace are you going to watch the new season of King of the Nerds? You seemed to like the first one
yeah probz. I didn't know it was on again. I'll definitely watch. thanks.
Premiere is Thursday night.
Posted by: buzzion at January 21, 2014 04:46 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:46 PM (iHJAJ)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scrapple
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 08:42 PM (/FnUH)
Not to mention adding an S to the front of the root word so as to disguise its origin...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:46 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 21, 2014 08:44 PM (SUKHu)
We upgraded to alpha! I'm always the last to know. dagnabbit!
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:47 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 04:48 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 04:48 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2014 04:48 PM (uZ6Ul)
Posted by: Lauren at January 21, 2014 04:48 PM (hFL/3)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 04:48 PM (DmNpO)
Okay, that cracked me up.
Posted by: no good deed at January 21, 2014 04:49 PM (vBhbc)
Se hwæl bið miċle lǣssa þonne ōðre hwalas: ne bið hē lenġra ðonne syfan elna lang. Ac on his āgnum lande is se betsta hwælhuntað: þā bēoð eahta and fēowertiġes elna lange, and þā mǣstan fīftiġes elna lange. Þāra hē sǣde þæt hē syxa sum ofslōge syxtiġ on twām dagum.
He thinks they are small whales. He says they are only 7 [syfan] "elna" or "elles" long [lange], unlike the big whales, which are sixty elles long.
The little whales are horse-size. So he calls them whale-horses.
Now you know...
Posted by: soothsayer's improbable history at January 21, 2014 04:49 PM (gYIst)
Posted by: Decaf at January 21, 2014 04:50 PM (6wg34)
Posted by: Synnerman at January 21, 2014 04:51 PM (0Bdlg)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:51 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:52 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Cicero Kid is NOT a cheese-perv. at January 21, 2014 04:52 PM (tcK++)
Posted by: Fritz at January 21, 2014 08:32 PM (TKFmG)
First cousin to Mothman?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:53 PM (yh0zB)
another one that is still in use is "battle". The old english word for "weapon" used to be "bat". As in... "don't bring a dirk to a bat fight". It's true.
Posted by: otho at January 21, 2014 04:53 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:53 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:53 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 04:54 PM (TGgNi)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 04:54 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, heteronormative vagitarien at January 21, 2014 04:54 PM (kFCo1)
Don't forget the Succubus. They're all Gingers, you know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus
Posted by: Cicero Kid is NOT a cheese-perv. at January 21, 2014 08:52 PM (tcK++)
I've always liked them...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 04:55 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 21, 2014 04:55 PM (KL49F)
Posted by: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp and Cicero Kid at January 21, 2014 04:55 PM (tcK++)
Posted by: Votermom at January 21, 2014 04:57 PM (GSIDW)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 04:57 PM (GEICT)
(The late) King Faisal of Saudi Arabia - Dead Head
Ann Coulter - Dead Head
Kenny, the pot-smoking loser down the block from us who lived at home with his mom until he was nearly 40 - Dead Head
The most amazing thing I've found out on the Internet today was that King Faisal, Ann Coulter and Kenny have something in common. They could have sat around together singing along to "Sugar Magnolia."
Posted by: Donna V. at January 21, 2014 04:58 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 08:57 PM (GEICT)
I'm, evidently, an anomaly.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 04:59 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 04:59 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 04:59 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 21, 2014 05:00 PM (CeNUw)
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:00 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:00 PM (QupBk)
My old man insists that the best way to expand your vocabularly is to study Greek and Latin roots because once you know a root, you can guess at the meaning of at least another half dozen words.
I used to poke fun at his obsession with language until we both took the same vocabulary test. I do very well in this area, usually testing in the 98th or 99th percentile on anything having to do with language, but he smoked my ass.
Posted by: Warden at January 21, 2014 05:02 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 09:00 PM (QupBk)
fixed.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:03 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 05:03 PM (acQMa)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 05:04 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:04 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 05:05 PM (TGgNi)
Outside of professionals speaking in the technical language of their profession, no one speaks the way they write.
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Actually, I think that this is something that ace does very well. So much so that I always notice when he lapses into a more formal tone and structure, which happens occassionally when he's writing about something serious.
Posted by: Warden at January 21, 2014 05:05 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:06 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: tmitsss at January 21, 2014 05:06 PM (Pa9vP)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:07 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 05:08 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:08 PM (QupBk)
Apparently the weather channel needed to bump up their ratings with ZOMG storm names. To me, the weather channel now just looks embarrassing.
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 05:10 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:10 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:10 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 05:10 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: BarneyOffal at January 21, 2014 05:10 PM (ul4Lc)
Posted by: think at January 21, 2014 05:11 PM (OroYa)
i think that theory is all wet. I tried that in high school. it's kind of bullshit.
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It works for him. He also speaks Spanish fluently, so that probably helps.
I can see how it could broaden your vocabulary. Take the root trans (across) and the root port (to carry). Now you've got transport. Break 'em back apart and you can see how they're used in all kinds of other works (porter, transform, etc...)
Posted by: Warden at January 21, 2014 05:11 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: DirecTV at January 21, 2014 05:11 PM (roTS7)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at January 21, 2014 05:11 PM (Dwehj)
I think the word you're looking for here is "wikkle".
Posted by: Anachronda at January 21, 2014 05:12 PM (U82Km)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:12 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 21, 2014 05:12 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 21, 2014 05:12 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 05:13 PM (TGgNi)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 09:07 PM (/FnUH)
The idea does have merit. As long as you know, somewhat, the background of the word, it's a good tool.
Like everything else: One sole approach doesn't solve everything, but it's useful in its own right.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:14 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:14 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at January 21, 2014 05:15 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:15 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 05:15 PM (acQMa)
yes, whale horse
Posted by: soothsayer's improbable history at January 21, 2014 09:13 PM (gYIst)
HAH! I employed the whale bat to teach last year. Trust me: none of my students will forget the whale bat and center of mass.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:15 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:16 PM (QupBk)
I got to use the word "dysjunction" (usually spelt "disjunction") recently. It's one of those GraecoLatin hybrids; which is why it is perfect, because its roots do in fact spell out "bad / connection".
You can have a lot of fun with language when you know how language works. Lewis Carroll knew this too of course.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 05:16 PM (Xfl0F)
Incidentally, I read french newspapers a lot. You know what the language of Medicine, Commerce, Business, Science, and Engineering is?
English.
They're not even freaking out about that anymore. They're now in the "Acceptance" stage.
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 09:10 PM
Which, fittingly, is a french word. Ironic, ne c'est pas?
Posted by: otho at January 21, 2014 05:16 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:16 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:16 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 21, 2014 05:16 PM (oFCZn)
It starts because I hate horror movies, but love horror books. So I read the plot and synopses of horror movies. And next thing I know, I'm reading about Starland Vocal Band.
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 21, 2014 05:16 PM (GrtrJ)
English.
They're not even freaking out about that anymore. They're now in the "Acceptance" stage.
Posted by: ace
Correct and the very reason I find it so odd that the US has such a hard on for accommodating other languages.
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 05:17 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:17 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 09:14 PM (/FnUH)
This is decidedly not a "Common Core" thread.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:17 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:18 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:18 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 09:17 PM (/FnUH)
We have GOT to get you laid.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:18 PM (x3YFz)
The carrier language is English the technical terms are quite often rooted in latin.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 05:19 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:19 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:19 PM (QupBk)
Milton was signalling that he was about to challenge Virgil at his own game.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 05:19 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: filbert at January 21, 2014 05:19 PM (roTS7)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 05:20 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 09:18 PM (ZPrif)
The nun who taught me english in high school said cuckold was the word for husband.
Posted by: think at January 21, 2014 05:20 PM (OroYa)
May I suggest my 404Care bill? There were so many words that didn't make sense to me, I had to quit halfway through the table of contents. Sheesh.
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at January 21, 2014 05:20 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 05:21 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 05:21 PM (XrwRV)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 05:22 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 05:22 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 21, 2014 05:22 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 21, 2014 05:23 PM (l0lja)
ace,
Well, it was a pedestrian example on my part because I'm not all that familiar with word roots. I think if you studied them a lot, it'd be useful.
On the other hand, having a high IQ, studying foreign languages, and reading a shit-ton of books probably had more of an effect on my dad's vocabularly than studying those roots.
Posted by: Warden at January 21, 2014 05:23 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 09:21 PM (g1DWB)
A bunch of stupid humans had nothing better to do than carve out giant stones that looked like stupid humans and lug them across the ground?
That's my guess.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:23 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:23 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: filbert at January 21, 2014 05:24 PM (roTS7)
Posted by: George Snoory at January 21, 2014 05:24 PM (Dwehj)
That's my guess.
That's so much better than the Knockout Game.
Posted by: no good deed at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (vBhbc)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (TGgNi)
Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (zXm/c)
Posted by: filbert at January 21, 2014 09:24 PM (roTS7)
BC Morons. I can see it.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (x3YFz)
Day gig often has me listening to air traffic - pilot comm. It is funny what passes for English from some of the foreign carriers. ...about as good as my Aramaic.
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 05:25 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 05:26 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:26 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at January 21, 2014 05:27 PM (4DD4V)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:27 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Frankly at January 21, 2014 05:27 PM (bB1pK)
Posted by: George Snoory at January 21, 2014 05:27 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:27 PM (/FnUH)
On this timesuck phenomenon of the "Wikiwander," Last Refuge of a Scoundrel sends this blogger's recounting of the various odd places that Wikipedia hyperlinks have taken him.
Her, actually (the link goes to Tamera K, Mistress of the Snark), but may I just say...
W00T!!!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 05:28 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:29 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 05:29 PM (TGgNi)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 05:30 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 05:30 PM (acQMa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 09:26 PM (GEICT)
I'm half jealous. I've ticked off all the firearms I want to own minus some old WWII, WWI collectables. Can't add to the armory in good conscience. Have only mastered 2 of the 23 firearms that are... er... I lost in the reservoir. Long way to go with what I hav.. had.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:30 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 21, 2014 05:30 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: jakeman at January 21, 2014 05:30 PM (vH4YP)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 05:31 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 21, 2014 05:31 PM (UAMVq)
fixt
Posted by: Anachronda at January 21, 2014 05:31 PM (U82Km)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 05:31 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 05:31 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: thunderb at January 21, 2014 05:32 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:32 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 21, 2014 05:32 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: BignJames at January 21, 2014 05:32 PM (j7iSn)
Fixed.
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 09:31 PM (doBIb)
"How many times do I have to say it?! Pillage, THEN plunder!"
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:33 PM (x3YFz)
Anyone ever watch THE PILLARS OF THE WORLD miniseries from a few years ago?
It was okay. What interested me was the engineering.
The Aztecs were clever engineers, too. Of course the Romans were more clever and pre-dated the savages by many centuries.
Posted by: soothsayer's improbable history at January 21, 2014 05:33 PM (gYIst)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:33 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at January 21, 2014 05:33 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:33 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 21, 2014 05:33 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:34 PM (GEICT)
Wow! In the NAACP characterizing the only black senator, I bet MLK would have thought he was listening to something said of him by the KKK.
Heard on Megyn Kelly - sorry no link.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 21, 2014 05:34 PM (BZAd3)
okay, what does the suffix -oid mean, as in humanoid?
Posted by: soothsayer's improbable history at January 21, 2014 09:29 PM (gYIst)
pain in the ass....see hemmorhoid
Posted by: BignJames at January 21, 2014 09:32 PM (j7iSn)
without cheating, I think it's "of making" or "from" or some such.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:34 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:34 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Regular Moron at January 21, 2014 09:19 PM (oGrEy)
German Air Traffic Control: Have you ever BEEN to Munich?
British Air Pilot: Once, in 1944, but I didn't land.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 05:35 PM (yh0zB)
I thought "Wankle" was a Mazda rotary engine.
That's actually "Wankel".
Posted by: Anachronda at January 21, 2014 05:35 PM (U82Km)
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and $5 a round.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 05:35 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Meremortal at January 21, 2014 05:36 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:36 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 05:36 PM (TGgNi)
Someone here almost always has the answer to whatever obscure trivia question is vexing me.
Sad, isn'tit?
Posted by: soothsayer's improbable history at January 21, 2014 05:36 PM (gYIst)
Posted by: oejay44cday at January 21, 2014 05:36 PM (iHJAJ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 09:34 PM (GEICT)
Last time I looked was around 2009 and they were $1800.
Imagine they're pricier now. Wouldn't buy one unless I had cash I had nothing better to spend it on, which is never.
I need an anti-material rifle like I need a 1 way trip to prison.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:36 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 21, 2014 05:36 PM (UAMVq)
Would you say that is just a US trait or an American trait? I'd say that few in the Americas accommodate another language (except for English for the reasons already stated).
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 05:37 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: HoboJerky, Hash Hunter at January 21, 2014 05:38 PM (E8IHS)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 05:38 PM (acQMa)
Posted by: thunderb at January 21, 2014 05:38 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 21, 2014 05:38 PM (ZPrif)
The S&W Bodyguard is the Smith alternative, but more expensive because it comes with a laser, which is unnecessary for close encounters.
If you have larger hands, you'll prefer an LC380, or even the new Glock 42. All 380's.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 05:39 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:39 PM (GEICT)
I know that Justice Thomas, these days, doesn't give a rat's ass.
I expect that as time goes on, Scott will be headed more and more into the zone of not caring what others think.
This frightens the NAACP.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 05:39 PM (Xfl0F)
FYI, ace...
The word MORON (foolish, stupid, idiot) derives from the Latin morus, which is a transliteration of the Greek moros (fïïlish, stupid)
Posted by: Warden at January 21, 2014 05:39 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:39 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 09:37 PM (nsOJa)
Depends. I have a functional ability for spanish (won't we all, soon?) and a little Russian, some German and Japanese. My dialects suck, though.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:40 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Meremortal at January 21, 2014 05:40 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: toby928© at January 21, 2014 05:41 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: thunderb at January 21, 2014 05:42 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 21, 2014 05:42 PM (UAMVq)
Dropped that motherfucker like it was hot.
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 09:39 PM (/FnUH)
Hah! The first hurdle a person who speaks english has to leap is the adjective follows the noun thing.
Then, it's the male/female nouns.
Then, it's conjugating nouns.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:42 PM (x3YFz)
He had no clue.
Maybe it's not a conversational language. He gets "A"s
What the hell do I know?
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 05:42 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 09:39 PM (Xfl0F)
It's a good thing that the NAACP is... what's the word... pretty homogenous, or one might think them racist.
They dodged one there!
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Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:44 PM (GEICT)
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Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 05:45 PM (TGgNi)
It does make remebering/learning the correct usage easier. Since the wrong usage of the technical terms can change the meaning of a report dramatically. At least for me it seemed that way growing up in a house where vocabulary was important.And my father enjoyed quizing us on Latin root meanings (or blurting them out in the context of a normal dinner table conversation). But he also liked reciting Shakespeare in Old English. So it was likely more the total vocabulary base that was more important than the Latin. Metallurgy is the science I work in I use a lot of terms with Latin roots.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 05:47 PM (TI3xG)
So do I, but it was originally from academics. Now, it is as you intimate and because of culture. We are frankly doing it to ourselves for no other reason that we self loath as a nation.
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 05:47 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: whatmeworry? at January 21, 2014 05:47 PM (dZGNV)
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Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:48 PM (GEICT)
So, we start conjugating verbs. I expected this because I'd taken German, french, and spanish before. I understand verbs need conjugation.
Then, like, we start conjugating NOUNS.
Now we're conjugating Nouns. We're fucking conjugating NOUNS.
So this me:
"Later days, dudes! Ex curricula!!!"
Dropped that motherfucker like it was hot.
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 09:39 PM (/FnUH)
It took me years to come to tolerate verb conjugation, that shit is just a bridge too far.
Posted by: mugiwara at January 21, 2014 05:48 PM (3a584)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 21, 2014 05:49 PM (7kkQJ)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 05:49 PM (doBIb)
So, it's not because of political-correctness. The New World did come up, by themselves, with a form of civilisation.
It was a form of civilisation that might as well have come from another planet though.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 05:49 PM (Xfl0F)
I am a S&W fan, but Ruger makes a damn fine piece. And the LCP and LC380 models can be bought with the laser.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 09:44 PM (GEICT)
Sig P229 .40. I carry a backup .38 spcl occasionally but experience and a few thousand rounds, 2 new barrels... I carry this and this religiously.
When you need it to go "bang" it goes "bang." Every. Time.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:49 PM (x3YFz)
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Posted by: Insomniac at January 21, 2014 05:52 PM (UAMVq)
Yeah, but that's because I'm not paying attention to what she is saying.
Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 05:52 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:52 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:53 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:53 PM (/FnUH)
And my father enjoyed quizing us on Latin root meanings (or blurting them out in the context of a normal dinner table conversation).
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Yeah? Well my dad did the same AND insisted on using perfect Spanish pronunciations when ordering at Taco Bell. I'm like, "Hey, guess what, bro? This pimply faced kid taking your order probably isn't gonna get too upset if you don't roll your R's."
And then he'd get quite upset and exclaim, "Well that's the way it's pronounced, goddammit"
Posted by: Warden at January 21, 2014 05:53 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 05:53 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 09:53 PM (GEICT)
how much is your life worth?
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:54 PM (x3YFz)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 21, 2014 05:55 PM (7kkQJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 21, 2014 09:55 PM (7kkQJ)
I demand you send me the Tampa Bay cheerleaders so I can test this postulate!
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:56 PM (x3YFz)
Hey-yo! Excuse me whilst I finish poking out my own son's eyeballs
Posted by: Empress Irene of Constantinople at January 21, 2014 05:56 PM (Xfl0F)
http://tinyurl.com/kjyoqa8
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 09:45 PM (TGgNi)
That would make an expensive...by product...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 05:56 PM (yh0zB)
It's not really an antidote to chronic insomnia. ;^) Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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We just take one night at a time.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 05:56 PM (4Mv1T)
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Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 05:57 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 05:57 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 05:58 PM (4Mv1T)
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Posted by: Adam at January 21, 2014 05:58 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: EC at January 21, 2014 09:55 PM (doBIb)
You have to find that happy place between being totally comfortable and still accurate at 15-20 feet with the shakes of adrenaline and "HOLY SHIT! This is really happening!"
It's a personal fit. Find what's best for you.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 05:58 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2014 05:59 PM (TGgNi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 21, 2014 05:59 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 09:53 PM (GEICT)
For a grand you can get two Groks that will go bang every time you pull the triggers...as long as they aren't Glock 36's...
Well, mine goes bang every time now, all it took was a replacement recoil spring. I understand they've quietly fixed the new generation of 36's.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 05:59 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 06:00 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at January 21, 2014 06:00 PM (zxsxA)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 06:00 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 21, 2014 09:59 PM (aDwsi)
Range Partner carries one. He says he only wants to shoot it once, and he will try hard not to kill whoever he shoots because he wants to beat them to death for making him shoot that damn thing.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 06:01 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: ablative at January 21, 2014 06:01 PM (R6JT1)
Posted by: thunderb at January 21, 2014 06:01 PM (zOTsN)
I happened across someone who owns the full multivolume paper edition of one of the classic older OEDs. It takes up about four linear feet of shelf space and it is absolutely beautiful.
Too big and heavy to grab it and run. I thought about that.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 21, 2014 06:01 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 21, 2014 06:02 PM (eQJwb)
I never took Latin in school. But having a base learned growing up came in handy. So my experience may just be I recognize the number of technical terms I use with Latin bases so it would appear useful. But you are right I would have learned the terms without it.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 06:02 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 21, 2014 06:02 PM (UAMVq)
You won't be shooting from 10 yards away. If you are in a location where you are too close to parked vehicles or buildings, you better have it in your pocket, and your hand on it. You can buy another jacket after you shoot holes through the pocket.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 06:02 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 21, 2014 09:58 PM (4Mv1T)
...i'll be in my bunk...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 06:03 PM (yh0zB)
Don't get us started. We'll be here all night and none of you will get a word in edgewise in any language.
Posted by: Esperantists at January 21, 2014 06:03 PM (gqT4g)
Well, mine goes bang every time now, all it took was a replacement recoil spring. I understand they've quietly fixed the new generation of 36's.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 09:59 PM (yh0zB)
have a 30 and a 17C. Not bad pistols at all.
As I said: if it works for you, it ain't stupid.
When I'm shooting my M9 I feel like I'm working my way up Kate Beckinsale's thighs.
Yeah.
Posted by: tangonine at January 21, 2014 06:04 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 21, 2014 06:05 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: DC in Towson at January 21, 2014 06:05 PM (eQJwb)
'43 Tula. They probably went to Berlin together.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 21, 2014 06:06 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Ælfrēd se Grēata at January 21, 2014 06:06 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 06:08 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 06:08 PM (acQMa)
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Posted by: dogfish at January 21, 2014 06:10 PM (nsOJa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Irish at January 21, 2014 10:00 PM (GEICT)
I carry two Bersa Thunder 380's
I think they're great.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 21, 2014 06:11 PM (BZAd3)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 21, 2014 09:21 PM
Boredom. If you're stuck on Easter Island, what else are going to do?
Posted by: otho at January 21, 2014 06:12 PM (9gNQd)
Oy. I am aware of precisely one case in which someone fired their personal defense sidearm in a pocket, and that was by accident while trying to draw it under severe situational stress
That was a shrouded-hammer revolver and the fabric of their pocket lining still managed to hang up the cylinder and prevent a second shot. And actually prevented the completion of the draw.
Fortunately, the goblin in question disengaged and departed at speed at the sound of the first and only shot.
Perhaps someday someone will design a weapon deliberately designed to be fired from inside a pocket, but that day is not yet, so far as I know. (Shrouded cylinder to go with the shrouded hammer?)
Posted by: torquewrench at January 21, 2014 06:13 PM (gqT4g)
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Posted by: Tuna at January 21, 2014 06:20 PM (M/TDA)
http://tinyurl.com/nzydpxs
His other one is called "The Meaning of Everything." Kind of says it all.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 21, 2014 06:30 PM (xq1UY)
A few months ago, I picked up "A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language" by Jacques Barzun. It's a fun little book, but then I'm a big Barzun fan.
Although he was a native French speaker, Barzun thought English superior to both French and German because it offers two vocabularies, one abstract and formal and the other concrete and vernacular. You can say "concede" or "give in," "deliver" or "hand over," "insert" or "put in."
He said French lost much of its vocabulary during the Renaissance when it became more Latinized and now has very formal-sounding words for everyday else.
"The reason why American and English tourists think French hotel porters are highly educated is they say such things as "Monsieur est matinal, vous allez un spectacle; il serait prudent de prendre un impermeable; c'est un indigene." In fact no other words, except slang, are available.
Barzun, writing in the late '80's, put the word "homophobia" on his list of "Monsters to Keep At Bay." Well, unfortunately, he couldn't kill that one.
Posted by: Donna V. at January 21, 2014 06:33 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: thoughts thoughts everywhere but not a moment to think at January 21, 2014 06:46 PM (R6JT1)
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Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 06:51 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 06:52 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 06:55 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: ace at January 21, 2014 07:01 PM (/FnUH)
My daughter told me that she and her friends play a Wikipedia game. It's like the Kevin Bacon game: take two completely dissociated topics, and see how many links you have to click on to get from the one to the other: the one with the shortest path wins.
I'm afraid to play: I could easily lose hours just randomly clicking.
Posted by: Brown Line at January 21, 2014 07:02 PM (a5bF3)
But it is the same on others, and to a lesser extent anyone remotely controversial in their own field, however esoteric.
"Antman" was just a Marvel rip-off of DC's The Atom, but once he partnered with The Wasp it became apparent that there was little need for two very tiny heroes, so the one who couldn't fly was expendable. Antman morphed into Giant-Man and then Goliath for a time before being written out of most stories, he had never really generated any independent following. The idea and costume of Antman remained, and a couple of others took on the role later, but it was never a first rank comic hero.
Posted by: Adjoran at January 21, 2014 07:03 PM (473jB)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 07:40 PM (acQMa)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 21, 2014 07:52 PM (acQMa)
Ace, in the book I got that quote out of "indigene" is italiicized, as is "matinal," "spectacle," "prudent" and "impermeable." I didn't italicize them (also, they're not accented), so the quote is more confusing online than it is in the dead tree version. My understanding of "indigene" is the same as yours (I'm working off of vaguely remembered school French; I'm very far from being fluent!), but I thought Barzun was just presenting scattered phrases illustrating examples of French words which might sound fancy to an English speaker.
I also thought this was interesting. He wrote about how language influences the way people think and said: "When philosophy stopped being written in Latin, the English school that arose was the Empiricist - thinkers who believed in the primacy of things: ideas were viewed as coming from objects in the world concretely felt. In French philosophy, notions came first: abstract words breed generalities and the world of thought is seen as cut off from the world of things. See M. Descartes. The historians Tocqueville and Taine thought that some of the greatest errors of the French Revolution were due to unconscious and misplaced abstraction."
And he also thought that American academics were (and are) guilty of muddying up English, and making it more abstract and foggy and as a result, we're increasingly less able to think sharp and straight about anything.
Posted by: Donna V. at January 21, 2014 08:49 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: RickH at January 21, 2014 09:02 PM (PBEqx)
Posted by: Jocon307 at January 21, 2014 09:18 PM (7+F2i)
Wiki might be the foremost invention of a long time.
Folks who do not consult Wiki a dozen times a day (and receive immense satisfaction) are ... some negative type of person.
I have always loved National Enquirer, and have always been impressed with their true information for my enquiringly mind.
NI and Wiki are not nearly the same except for one thing.
They are not Soviet style sources of information and absurdly tedious as all Leftist media is.
They are non-Leftist. How refreshing.
Americans who consult National Inquirer and Wiki are not looking up at the thumb.
Posted by: Tonawanda at January 21, 2014 09:19 PM (mE1l+)
Nothing overt, just constant justified reference.
A site could even feature a daily ref to Wiki which is awesome, like human knowledge ("or something," to use a tiresome phrase by the prose challenged).
Who does not need to be reminded what the Wilmot Proviso was about?
Posted by: Tonawanda at January 21, 2014 09:27 PM (mE1l+)
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http://preview.tinyurl.com/m6nx84d
http:// freebabylon5fr . blogspot . com
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http://preview.tinyurl.com/kru2un8
https:// twitter.com/ FreeBabylon 5FR
Posted by: Amy Shulkusky at January 22, 2014 05:55 AM (3ONFH)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 22, 2014 06:14 AM (acQMa)
Anyhoo, frequentative also exists in Latin. They would take the perfect passive participle (fourth principal part when you were learning verbs in your two weeks) and turn it into a first conjugation verb. I'd give you examples but you'd be bored.
Posted by: bledsoe at January 22, 2014 06:48 AM (g7SfB)
"I can't say that I wankle instead of "wank" to indicate the repetitive mechanical fury with which I abuse myself, whirring and sparking like a misfiring industrial robot."
Apropos your "bat -> batter" example, however, you ARE a wanker. So, yes you can still do it.
"Is this awesome or am I just easily amused?"
Not sure those are mutually exclusive.
I can drown in wikipedia, too. When preparing to write a character for a story, I start researching all sorts of things on the internet, learning about obscure bits of history and odd cultures and origins of names and snippets of languages. And you can suddenly look up and it's dark outside and you wonder where the day has gone.
Posted by: GWB at January 22, 2014 08:01 AM (zFh/A)
Posted by: ThomasD at January 22, 2014 07:06 AM (FA+FN)"
How about a "wikipediophile"?
Posted by: GWB at January 22, 2014 08:03 AM (zFh/A)
Posted by: petunia at January 22, 2014 11:06 AM (DAcBA)
Posted by: stormcooper at January 22, 2014 12:11 PM (6mijs)
drip --> dribble
piss --> piddle
tweet --> twitter
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 22, 2014 05:36 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 22, 2014 06:08 PM (/96QU)
I also really liked Donna's comment at #150 about the furnishings of a castle hall and the effects they had on our language. I think that's also why it's considered rude to put your elbows on the table while eating, because you're putting extra weight on your side of the board, and you could cause it to fall off the sawhorses.
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