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Post by Little Jack Horner on Nov 10, 2020 11:17:28 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 10, 2020 22:34:11 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on Nov 10, 2020 23:24:42 GMT
TikToker doesn't work with me. It looks like it should be pronounced "TikToaker".
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Post by Dave Miller on Nov 11, 2020 5:09:16 GMT
I’m pleased to see that they took into account the nature and effect of the candidate words, rather than just their existence or growing popularity. Not just “what got said?”, but “what captured the spirit of the time?”. Covid seems a strong contender; the others seem fleeting or uncomfortable.
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 11, 2020 7:55:06 GMT
TikToker doesn't work with me. It looks like it should be pronounced "TikToaker". Twod, I do prefer your TikToaker take. As with other popular / trendy (anti)social media, TikTok fails to appeal to this curmudgeon. * It seems to me that social media content is predominantly superficial and fleeting, and appeals most strongly to the Me Generation and those who otherwise haven’t a life. I do acknowledge an occasional good wrought through those media channels, but not enough to redress the balance, methinks. I’ve inadvertently seen three TikToks via YouTube, and that’s been the rich totality of my immersion in this newest tech fad. * Curmudgeon? Yep. But no troglodyte or luddite: computer user since '73; the 53rd Aussie to connect to public internet in 1989; an early adopter of tech I find useful; but I reject some media types and topics – I'm very fussy about whom I virtually let into my home and where I waste my time. Amongst the time-wasters I don't patronise are Fakebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn … and now TikTok. Surely it won't be long before some smartarse starts clandestinely distributing malware via TT. I'm a joker, I'm a smoker
, I'm a midnight toker …
— The Joker Steve Miller BandDo TikTo kers get stoned at the witching hour?
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Post by Dave on Nov 11, 2020 9:18:39 GMT
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Post by Dave Miller on Nov 11, 2020 10:06:12 GMT
A splendid list! I was intrigued, though, at a few things: (15) ... a shears. I’m guessing that’s American for what British English always calls a pair of shears. Does “a scissors” exist? (23) b**ch British English has no more need to disguise bitch than it has to disguise dog. When applied to a person, though, it just means something more like “someone who tends to speak nastily of others”. (24) peer Not clearly a contranym. It still (supposedly) means “of equal rank” - but equal to the sovereign, rather than the masses.
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Post by Twoddle on Nov 11, 2020 11:09:42 GMT
A splendid list! I was intrigued, though, at a few things: (15) ... a shears. I’m guessing that’s American for what British English always calls a pair of shears. Does “a scissors” exist? (23) b**ch British English has no more need to disguise bitch than it has to disguise dog. When applied to a person, though, it just means something more like “someone who tends to speak nastily of others”. (24) peer Not clearly a contranym. It still (supposedly) means “of equal rank” - but equal to the sovereign, rather than the masses. I agree, Dave. Also: (8) "Cleave" was Tone's favourite contranym, as I recall. (22) I'm not sure that "out of" is a contranym in UK English. I'd say "I work from my home", not "I work out of my home".
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Nov 11, 2020 11:20:32 GMT
Yes. A good list but...
(15) ... a shears. I’m guessing that’s American for what British English always calls a pair of shears. Does “a scissors” exist? I wouldn’t ‘always’ say a pair of shears or a pair of scissors. I would almost always say simply shears or scissors, but in the plural. Similarly with other ‘pair’ words like socks, trousers and shoes.
(24) peer Not clearly a contranym. It still (supposedly) means “of equal rank” I agree that it is not clearly a contranym but why “supposedly”? Surely, that is exactly what it does mean as in peer pressure or a jury of one’s peers.
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Post by Dave Miller on Nov 11, 2020 16:03:21 GMT
I meant that, when used to refer to a noble peer, it “supposedly” means of equal rank to the sovereign ... but it doesn’t quite apply, as the noble peer is not, for example, Head of State.
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 11, 2020 21:16:50 GMT
A puzzler from ABC News this morning:
"Three teenagers have been charged after two men were found with stab wounds to their forehead and hand in Mt Druitt."
Were the victims perchance conjoined twins that they shared one forehead and one hand? (Mind you, any aberration is likely in Sydney’s Mt Druitt.)
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 14, 2020 21:26:58 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 15, 2020 11:35:15 GMT
This picture is a screen grab from an Oz ABC news item about the hoo-haa accompanying the US elections. I'm sure the person who took the photo saw advantage in that obscuring strap (camera? firearm?) to take the piss. After all, one must respond to trannies – can'ʔ 'ave 'em runnin' abouʔ scarin' th'orses!
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Nov 16, 2020 9:46:29 GMT
I take a childish pleasure in taking my Aussie family for lunch to a pub called the New Inn located near my home in the UK because it was built before Oz was discovered by Europeans. But “new” is relative. I have been watching the “Foxes Afloat” video diaries on YouTube. They have mentioned New Bridge in Oxfordshire. It was built at the order of King John in the 12th century. And a friend reminds me about the New Forest, so-called because it was newly established in the eleventh century. Does anyone know of an older “new” name?
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 16, 2020 11:42:16 GMT
I take a childish pleasure in taking my Aussie family for lunch to a pub called the New Inn located near my home in the UK because it was built before Oz was discovered by Europeans. But “new” is relative. I have been watching the “Foxes Afloat” video diaries on YouTube. They have mentioned New Bridge in Oxfordshire. It was built at the order of King John in the 12th century. And a friend reminds me about the New Forest, so-called because it was newly established in the eleventh century. Does anyone know of an older “new” name?New Testament?
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