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Post by Young Game on Jan 9, 2010 15:47:08 GMT -5
Jamais Vu. The opposite of deja vu. I tried describing this to a friend of mine. She thought I had gone absolutely flippin' mad.
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Post by The Line on Jan 9, 2010 15:50:56 GMT -5
defenestrate is a completely cromulent word.
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Post by biafra on Jan 9, 2010 16:46:49 GMT -5
People are actually upset that slang words get popular enough to be included in the dictionary? * chuckles*. When they are ridiculous bastardizations of other words, why not? Because it just seems like a silly thing to be angry about. It's not like making these words "official" means everyone has to use them. Hey, people have the right to get upset about it. And I have the right to point at them and chuckle.
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Post by Abadebe on Jan 9, 2010 18:15:40 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Jan 9, 2010 19:34:33 GMT -5
It's been said only germans have one word for "taking joy from the suffering of others" and that is schadenfreude. This is not true. English also has one word that means the same thing: epicaricacy. Doesn't sadism/sadist also mean taking joy from the suffering of others? I know it means having joy causing the suffering of others, but still. It counts. So English has two words. Also.....checking that word you typed on Dictionary.com has yielded a "no definition". You sure that is the correct spelling? If that word doesn't exist, then English would only have one word also, sadism. Sadism is when you get joy from causing suffering, and only that. Schadenfreude and epicaricacy have more to do with, say, being happy that Edge screwed Cena out of the world title. Or taking some measure of pleasure out of Tiger Woods' difficulty. And I'm surprised dictionary.com doesn't have it. The word IS a rediscovery. It dropped out of use during the turn of the century, but if you found an older dictionary it'd still be there.
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Post by GaTechGrad on Jan 9, 2010 19:52:33 GMT -5
Zounds! I know it's a word, I just can't think of an occasion where I would need a contraction for "By God's Wounds" as an minced oath. I remember "zounds" being used repeatedly in some of the old King's Quest games.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 20:04:56 GMT -5
People are actually upset that slang words get popular enough to be included in the dictionary? * chuckles*. When they are ridiculous bastardizations of other words, why not? They aren't bastardizations though, they're portmanteaus. They serve a purpose by expressing a new conception, a new way of looking at things, by comparing them to something similar that is already established.
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 9, 2010 23:20:19 GMT -5
When they are ridiculous bastardizations of other words, why not? They aren't bastardizations though, they're portmanteaus. They serve a purpose by expressing a new conception, a new way of looking at things, by comparing them to something similar that is already established. And many, such as Guesstimate, have likely been used since before we were all born.
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Post by Young Game on Jan 10, 2010 0:42:52 GMT -5
Oddly enough, a friend and I were just talking about this last night. We talked about how someone could possibly use this, if at all. If and when we use this word, it normally proceeds "egress".
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Post by jagilki on Jan 10, 2010 7:53:54 GMT -5
If memory serves me right, it's why a few schools in the US have banned either The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings books, can't remember.
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