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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 3, 2023 20:08:28 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 3, 2023 21:22:46 GMT
Thank you for opening the month, LJH. What it seems you referred to (LGBTQIAP2S+) appears on my screen in lines 0 (head), 1, 7, and 9 (no doubt owing to variable browser settings). The addition of P2S is new to me. If that makes pansexuals and two-spirit persons feel better, more included, then good-o. I still think that my GLBTIQACDC does the trick, but others are welcome to disagree. I place the G first. What were earlier called gay-and-lesbian organisations were, in my experience, in most instances started by gay men; then once the lesbians saw the golden egg – all the money that gay operations brought in – they decided to ‘help’. Along the way the lesbians’ (mis)management of those funds led to the bankrupting, and sometimes cessation, of such organisations. Of course, they claimed that as lesbians had always been placed last (a spurious claim at best) they should redress the balance by rearranging the initials. Note that this site is titled Female First. Hmmm … The article author there, Holly Mosley, refers to the letter group as an acronym. That immediately reduces her credibility in my mind, as it is not an acronym but an initialism. LGBTQIAP2S+ supposedly stands for: Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning Intersex Asexual/Aromantic Pansexual Two-spirit. What comes next? H for Heteros? K for Kink? BDSM … ? The once well-intentioned but now ridiculous labelling has become an industry with all comers demanding ‘inclusion’. Humbug. Okay, time I took my daily happy pills, I suppose.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 4, 2023 0:24:26 GMT
LJH: What are those six rhyming words? All I could find, over half a dozen (dodgy) websites, were unsober, prober, rober. There were other offerings, but they didn’t qualify by my understanding of rhyme.
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Post by Dave Miller on Oct 4, 2023 8:48:02 GMT
I get lost in, and angered by, the alphabet soup which seeks to include - but then by its existence separates - the various types of life and love, so I’ll concentrate on the rhyming.
I’ll offer: jojoba
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 4, 2023 17:01:46 GMT
It offered six words as 100% rhymes and a number of others at 92%. Here are the 100% offerings but I think all but "sober" are either not English or are proper nouns which I didn't accept for my intention.
sober Ober Kroeber Oktober Loeber Strober
I am not sure that "rober", which Vv mentioned, is a standard English word. Most Scrabble dictionary don't include it but some other dictionaries do. I suppose it must mean someone who helps you to dress! Perhaps we could have "unrober" as well? My spellchecker approves the first but not the second.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 4, 2023 22:39:52 GMT
Further to my earlier rant about sexuality-alphabet soup, I learned another variant by reading this morning’s news: LGBQTIA+SB.
“Black Rainbow is a national volunteer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBQTIA+SB social enterprise in the pursuit of positive health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Asexual, Sistergirl and Brotherboy (LGBQTIA+SB).” – ABC News
Sistergirl and brotherboy are terms used by queer Indigenous Aussies to describe, respectively, gay men and lesbians.
I can(’t) wait for the inclusion of Martians and Venusians.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 5, 2023 2:48:59 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 5, 2023 6:10:35 GMT
Q: Why did the palindrome cross the road?
A: To get a map a mate got.
– from RobWords’s weekly newsletter
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Post by Twoddle on Oct 5, 2023 9:17:15 GMT
I can(’t) wait for the inclusion of Martians and Venusians. Don't be so speciesist! What about us Vulcans?
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 5, 2023 10:25:44 GMT
I can(’t) wait for the inclusion of Martians and Venusians. Don't be so speciesist! What about us Vulcans? LGBTQIAP2S+SBV? (That final mark is a query.)
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 5, 2023 22:06:20 GMT
Interesting – and possibly appropriate – misspelling in a YouTube comment: decapacitation for decapitation. If one is decapitated, I would assume that one is also decapacitated. (No, I’m no great fan of beheading videos; this one just landed in my recommendations so I watched it out of curiosity.)
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 5, 2023 23:17:45 GMT
Decapacitation. The thing about so many misspellings and malapropisms and eggcorns these days is that I suspect many of them are a result of the voice recognition software making a mess of things. I have to look very carefully at anything I dictate knowing that it may well be wrong. It is particularly problematic when it initially it uses the correct word and, after I have moved on, it then changes it for the wrong word. So much of what I dictate ends of his jammers. No. I didn't say that. I said ends up as Japanese. And I didn't say that either. I said ends up as gibberish.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 6, 2023 1:21:05 GMT
Yes, LJH, voice recognition is frequently a culprit these days. The proofreader who replaced me when I retired is forever bitching (justifiably) about the ridiculous errors introduced when journalists dictate their material to a machine rather than type it.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 8, 2023 9:09:43 GMT
Colourful boating event“Tom Robinson * was in the final, ‘make-or-break leg’ of his massive journey when his rowboat was damaged by ‘ a rouge wave’ and he was left clinging naked to the hull of the vessel he built.” Was the rouge wave so coloured from embarrassment at Tom’s nakedness? * Not the Tom Robinson of TRB (2-4-6-8-Motorway etc.)
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 9, 2023 15:46:42 GMT
I decided to read about this rescue. In doing so, I noticed that the spelling has been corrected. So, somebody noticed the error and cared sufficiently to put it right.
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