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I have a greasemonkey script to convert the phonetic transcription of wordie at the top of every page to IPA over at Userscripts, if anyone's interested.
adoarns commented on the list bibliophilia
May I suggest aubade a particular genre of poem about lovers waking in the morning sunrise and usu. taking leave.
Jan 4, 2009
adoarns commented on the list writer-writer
May I suggest the ooey gooey French écrivain (masc form), which essentially means writer but gives just the right bloviating sophistication to that certain scribbler.
If you can read French, read this wikipedia.fr article about it.
Jan 4, 2009
adoarns commented on the word well fuck me running
This is in particular a favorite of a literary friend of mine.
Jan 4, 2009
adoarns commented on the word go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
Something said frequently in a Vonnegut novel, I think Slapstick.
Jan 4, 2009
adoarns commented on the word just tits
I often wonder the derivation of this. I've heard it from my younger brother and his clique, who seem a constant cauldron of language use. My best guess is it's a vulgar corruption of the idiom "it's the tops," with something more tangibly desired (at least from most males' perspective) replacing "tops".
Jan 4, 2009
adoarns commented on the word oligopolist
Have to add the dual: oligopsonist.
Jul 7, 2008
adoarns commented on the word shoecabbage
Is a pair of words from two languages which sound the same but have different meanings.
For instance, English "shoe" sounds identical to French "chou," which means "cabbage."
May 9, 2008
adoarns commented on the word heterologue
Subtly different from a shoecabbage.
May 9, 2008
adoarns commented on the word ianfu
Japanese "comfort women"; sexual slaves during WWII provided for Japanese soldiers.
Mar 23, 2008
adoarns commented on the word ka-tzet
Term for a concentration camp current in WWII Europe, derived from the initials KZ standing in for the German konzentrationslager, meaning "concentration camp."
An inmate might be called a ka-tzetnik.
Mar 23, 2008
adoarns commented on the word ankang
Like a psikhushka, a prison for political dissidents masquerading as mental hospital.
From ZHO.
Mar 23, 2008
adoarns commented on the word psikhushka
A psychiatric facility used to detain political prisoners under the pretext that they are mentally ill. Historically Russian, though the phenomenon is not uniquely so; cf. ankang in the PRC.
From RUS, diminutive of “psychiatric hospital.�?
Mar 23, 2008
adoarns commented on the word zek
A Gulag prisoner.
Mar 23, 2008
adoarns commented on the word faux pas de coit
The misadventure, when a male is attempting intercourse, of banging the erect member either into the bed or the partner's perineum. One of the most common modes of penile fracture.
Mar 23, 2008
adoarns commented on the word setshwetla
A naked protest endemic to South Africa.
Qv.
Mar 21, 2008
adoarns commented on the list violin-parts
Your typical meronymous list.
Mar 8, 2008
adoarns commented on the word tire turd
Along with fenderberg, car booger, and car patty, words used in some regions to refer to the compacted snow that builds up in the wheel-well of a car behind the tire.
Feb 28, 2008
adoarns commented on the word word apnea
Cf. presque vu.
Feb 25, 2008
adoarns commented on the word paroemiographer
Cf. gnomologist.
Feb 24, 2008
adoarns commented on the word ignosticism
The position that the very question of whether a god or gods exist is meaningless, usually starting from the point that consistent definitions of the word god either do not exist or are impossible to construct.
Feb 20, 2008
adoarns commented on the word whipple
The Whipple procedure during medical school was either the thing you couldn't believe you got to assist on, or the thing you couldn't believe you had to assist on.
For a surgery junkie, it's great. It's one of the most intense re-plumbing jobs commonly done. For those of us who just wanted to pass surgery and be done, it was an eight-hour torture session. On your feet, masked, capped, and gowned, holding some stupid retractor or another until the early evening.
Feb 20, 2008
adoarns commented on the user adoarns
I have a greasemonkey script to convert the phonetic transcription of wordie at the top of every page to IPA over at Userscripts, if anyone's interested.
Feb 18, 2008
adoarns commented on the word parameter
I had always taken the phrase "within those parameters" to set up a metaphor of like a simulation with certain presets, and the outcome matched to whatever was run within them.
Feb 18, 2008
adoarns commented on the word proprioception
Discard all your fanciful notions of there being only five senses. There're at least seven, counting this and balance.
Feb 18, 2008
adoarns commented on the list big-long-words
Pseudocounterantidisestablishmentarianistically?
God I love productive derivational morphology.
Feb 18, 2008
adoarns commented on the word malakomisia
Oh, I'm sure it is. The neologisms that catch on always seem to be the least affected, the most nonce-like--such as, eg, homophobe.
Feb 18, 2008
adoarns commented on the word dietrology
Quo vade.
Feb 17, 2008
adoarns commented on the word erastes
The older member of the ancient Greek pederastic union. Qv erotomenos.
Feb 16, 2008
adoarns commented on the word erotomenos
The younger member of the ancient Greek pederastic union. Qv erastes.
Feb 16, 2008
adoarns commented on the word malakomisia
My proposal for a more sensible construction meaning "someone who dislikes homosexuals." It adopts an obsolete Attic term of abuse, malakos as a new geuzennaam.
My problems with homophobe are A) with the first morpheme homo, which can only be reasonably interpreted as the English slang word homo, and not as a Latin or Greek root; and B) the second morpheme -phobe which emphasizes fear instead of loathing, and perhaps implies the oft-cited but to-me not perfectly convincing trope that all those who really dislike gays dislike them because they're afraid they're secretly homosexual themselves.
Feb 16, 2008
adoarns commented on the word simcurity
The public ritual of showy displays that seem to add security, that is that simulate security, but in reality probably don't.
Feb 10, 2008
adoarns commented on the list conflicted
Though they've adapted away from the strict "-machia" Greek ending, might I also suggest gigantomachy, titanomachy, and monarchomach.
Feb 9, 2008
adoarns commented on the word blype
Thought for sure this was a sniglet.
Feb 9, 2008
adoarns commented on the word flagellum
Also the cellular appendage used by some cells to propel themselves through fluid media.
Feb 7, 2008
adoarns commented on the word endosymbiont
Chloroplasts are also thought to be the descendants of endosymbiotic bacteria. Mitochondria and chloroplasts both have a genome separate from the main nuclear DNA, though most of their day-to-day functions have been shifted to the cell nucleus.
Interestingly, some biologists advocate that the eukaryotic flagellum is also a descendant of an endosymbiont, specifically a spirochete, a kind of spiral-shaped bacterium. This has less traction, so far.
Feb 7, 2008
adoarns commented on the word cisternae
A cistern is also one of several areas around the base of the brain where cerebrospinal fluid collects.
Feb 7, 2008
adoarns commented on the word crypto-anarchism
An ideology that mostly pertains to the online world that seeks to maximize individual freedom and anonymity through the use of strong public-key cryptography.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word kleroterion
A simple lottery device used by Athenians during the period of their democracy to randomly choose citizens for public posts. It consisted of a flat surface incised with many slots into which the citizens' tokens would be placed, as well as a tube that was to be filled with different-colored balls that were cranked out, the color of which determining which rows of slots would be chosen. Quod vide.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word sortition
A method of choosing decision-makers by lottery. This is how Athenian democracy largely worked (with exceptions such as the election of strategoi or generals).
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word isonomia
equality of political rights
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word logomisia
A strong dislike for a word, for instance that of some people for the word moist.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word rhinotillexis
Lit. "nose-picking."
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word pasquinade
Noted in the etymology to be coined after the name of a Roman statue, Pasquino, which was regularly covered with scurrilous satires while standing in a public place.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word bekos
Given that the Wikipedia article on XPG (Phrygian) notes that known inscriptions of the language seem fairly close to the reconstructed PIE (Proto Indo-European), poetically at least it seems maybe Psammetichus's experiment wasn't far off.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word chazzerai
Also seen spelled chazzerei or chazerei.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word sillograph
A satire, or one who writes them.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word skeevy
One dictionary notes the etymology: "from Italian schifo, meaning 'disgust.'"
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word mutaween
Originally referred to the Saudi religious policemen, or enforcement officers of the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Now can be extended to any similar body that enforces strict (and socially inhibiting) interpretations of religious law.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word kalpa
An exceptionally-long (but varying) period of time in Hindu and Buddhist thought.
The best explanation ever:
Every 100 years, a bird flies over the summit of Mount Sumeru and, in so doing, brushes the pinnacle with a red silk scarf held in its beak. A kalpa is the period of time it takes to wear the mountain down to nothing by this activity.
Feb 6, 2008
adoarns commented on the word geuzennaam
A word or name for a group of people, formerly considered derogatory, which has been appropriated by that group. Eg, queer, nigger.
NLD.
Feb 6, 2008