Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
Lemmy
I agree that we should use overmorrow more. Japanese has a similar word and it gets frequent use.
In my country we also have a word for that and it’s always used when referring to overmorrow.
I like penultimate, next to last.
Shemomedjamo - Georgian word meaning to eat past the point of fullness because it tastes so good or as I heard it, “I accidentally ate the whole thing.”
Petrichor: The smell of rain on dry ground. One of those things everybody knows about but lacks a word for.
Apparently Streptomyces are the cause.
I learned about this in Amsterdam’s Groote Museum today, huh
Borborygmus I use often enough, but it’s not widely known. It’s the gurgling sound produced by the movement of gas through your intestines.
Limaceous I almost never use, but I enjoy it anyway. It means characteristic of or pertaining to slugs.
And lastly, tawdry is one of my favorites meaning showy but cheap and poor quality.
I don’t think tawdry is archaic. A little uncommon, but still in use.
At least 20 years of having slugs as a special interest and I never heard the word limaceous?? Thank you for correcting this!
Now to find out if it actually has specific academic usage and the biologists will execute me if I use it regarding slugs outside the superfamily Limacoidea.
The are all great, but tawdry is fantastic!
Rolls of the tongue, and we all come across several tawdry things/people in a given day.
Scrofulous - a) having a diseased run-down appearance. b) morally contaminated
I learned this word when I heard someone being described as a ‘scrofulous drinkist’ lol
Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.
I actually dislike that term a lot.
It’s like spunkgargleweewee. It seems immature and makes me feel more dismissive towards the argument. Maybe that also has to do with it being a catch all term and people seem less willing to give specific examples of how things are declining in quality.
spunkgargleweewee
Ah, an individual of culture.
spunkgargleweewee
You’re claiming that is a term people use?
Skibidi Ohio rizz bro.
Omg no
I believe the term originated with Yahtzee during the military and tactical shooter crazy in the 2010s. It referred to games that paraded players through various spectacles and rooms full of chest high walls, until enough time had passed to call it a campaign.
Not commonly but every so often YouTubers I watch will start using it and it sticks for a prolonged period of time.
It was just the first thing that came to mind. I imagine their are other equally silly internet words out there.
Wait did you just coin that? That’s fucking brilliant /s
Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn’t use this term constantly or anything?
It was coined by Cory Doctorow.
Because there was no /s - no they didn’t, it’s been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
Since we’re talking about it, and I really like the guy’s work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.
lol I didn’t think I needed the
/s
because it was dripping with sarcasm.The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.
Sarcasm isn’t “pretending to be stupid” imo
Cory Doctorow coined it: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism “enshittification” in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.
“scruple” as a verb, meaning “hesitate due to conscience”.
People probably know a word based on it, unscrupulous, meaning having or showing no moral principles
Yeah, and folks know “scruples” as a noun which some people have and some don’t, but “scruple” as a verb is a nice archaic version that I really like, which you don’t encounter much outside of, say, a Jane Austen novel.
An ultracrepidarian—from ultra- (“beyond”) and crepidarian (“things related to shoes”)—is a person considered to have ignored this advice and to be offering opinions they know nothing about.
The word is derived from a longer Latin phrase and refers to a story from Pliny the Elder
The phrase is recorded in Book 35 of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History as ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret[1] (“Let the cobbler not judge beyond the crepida”) and ascribed to the Greek painter Apelles of Kos. Supposedly, Apelles would put new paintings on public display and hide behind them to hear and act on their reception.[2] On one occasion, a shoemaker (Latin sutor) noted that one of the crepides[a] in a painting had the wrong number of straps and was so delighted when he found the error corrected the next day that he started in on criticizing the legs.[2] Indignant, Apelles came from his hiding place and admonished him to confine his opinions to the shoes.[2] Pliny then states that since that time it had become proverbial.[2]
Defenestrate means to throw out of a window.
For example, “Someone should defenestrate Putin.”
- Paramour
It sounds fancy, but means a casual lover. A fuck buddy. A friend with benefits. Though it can also carry the implication of being an out-of-wedlock lover, as it dates back to a time where having a fuck buddy was almost certainly a sign of married infidelity.
- Kith
Means one’s friends and other people they are close to that aren’t family. Often paired with “kin”. Kith and kin. Friends and family.
A paramour is an “other lover”. Para = beside, amour = love. It’s not a casual fuck buddy, it’s your cheating partner. I’m surprised to hear you say it’s unknown as a word these days? Seems like just a normal word to me, albeit one I’m happy to go without using as cheaters suck.
I use paramour, usually to describe an infidelity situation. No one under 35 knows what it is.
Interrobang.
It’s this thing: ‽
More people should use the symbol because it looks cool and has a badass name, so for that you need to know what it’s called.
Who’s with me‽
Interrobang sounds like something from a porno about police work.
“Did you question the suspect?”
“Yeah, Chief, we interrobanged him and got the info.”
Questioning a bang.
My quick and dirty interrobang with her revealed to me how empty inside I was, unlike the outhouse we were in.
Hey, it’s me, your suspect. I’ve got more info, step it up with the interrobanging, will ya?
Or a fully themed, punctuation inspire flick. Named “character” to let you fill in the blanks.
Char 1: Well what do you think Mark?
Char 2: Are you sure she can handle it, Point?
Char 1: Its time we’ve shown
Char 2: our true power…
Together: As Interrobang!
Char 3: No wait, I’ve got my per…
… OK it needs to be reworked, but you get the idea.
While I like the concept, I can’t help but prefer ‘!?’ or ‘?!’. There’s more granularity of meaning, and I think it just looks nicer having two or more separate characters.
Yeah, but you aren’t proper if you’re using more than one piece of punctuation at the end of your sentence. Them’s the rules.
Unless…
Only if you agree to stop calling them Hashtags and use their more-correct name of Octothorpes
“Press 1 to continue followed by the Octothorpes”
Lol I love it
I made
AltGr + /
type an interrobang so I’d always have access to itHow do I start?
I set up an auto replace on my phone so when I type ?! It’ll switch it to ‽ for me.
My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don’t take my word for it.