"I assure you, Agha, that any previous loquacious tendancies have been curtailed and that now more than ever have I sought for and achieved new standards of brevity." - http://www.delilahdirk.com/ddattl/ch1-011-012.html
via geeky Questionable Content tshirt. Appears to be D&D terminology (per this): "most abilities that inflict Conditions on people (such as Silenced) would be "save ends," which means at the end of every round the creature gets to roll a d20 and on a 10 or better, the Condition ends."
"There was a new vocabulary word, wandervogel, used to describe the itinerant-traveling-scholar life of a famed researcher when he was in his unformed, rapidly-learning youth: my dictionary tells me that this translates into “bird of passage.” -from Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson, via Mel Chua's blog
"To those west of the Shannon the word (tome) has mysteriously and inexplicably been appointed a new and utterly unrelated meaning: cool, or deadly if you speak Finglas." from Tome Magazine
"an alternate hidden layer to be read by eyes that see the world in a wider range of wavelengths.
Timo and Jack call this “Antiflage” – a made-up word for something we’re just starting to play with.
It is the opposite of camouflage – the markings and shapes that attract and beguile robot eyes that see differently to us – just as Dawkins describes the strategies that flowers and plants have built up over evolutionary time to attract and beguile bees, hummingbirds – and exist in a layer of reality complimentary to that which we humans sense and are beguiled by."
Sente reference manager uses hotwords to mean "customizable, multiple keywords, displayed in multiple colors". Others should adopt this use, check the video linked from their documentation, it'll make sense.
Gambiarra is the Brazilian practice of makeshifts, the art of resorting to quirky and smart improvisation in order to repair what doesn’t work or to create what you need with what you have at your disposal. Gambiologia is the ‘science’ that studies this form of creative improvisation and celebrates it by combining it with electronic-digital techniques.” from Gambiologia, the Brazilian art and science of kludging via this blog post.
jodi commented on the word so
Irish grammar of "so", as a tag question: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/62157/is-there-a-name-for-how-the-irish-use-so-so
May 13, 2013
jodi commented on the word top of the morning
Etymology: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51427/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-top-of-the-morning-to-you
May 13, 2013
jodi commented on the list british-english-thats-not-in-american-english
See also American vs. British English
Feb 11, 2013
jodi commented on the word tricoteuse
on Wikipedia
Oct 3, 2012
jodi commented on the word banksman
BrE; seen on a sign at the side of a road ("no backing up without a banksman")
Oct 3, 2012
jodi commented on the word shuk up
IrE for shaken, when you're talking about someone who has been through an ordeal (per informant)
Sep 6, 2012
jodi commented on the word beat down
IrE for "ugly" (e.g. yelling insults to the TV: "Jaysus, she's quare beat down.", reports an informant)
Sep 6, 2012
jodi commented on the word Charley horse
Wikipedia article pegs this as "North American English"
Aug 15, 2012
jodi commented on the word outwith
via discussion between Lauren Hall-Lew and Charles Sutton
Jul 26, 2012
jodi commented on the word FRAND
Used in the patent world; see also RAND.
Jul 21, 2012
jodi commented on the word citance
Citances are "the set of citation sentences that reference a specific paper", per Anita de Waard.
Jul 19, 2012
jodi commented on the word g'wan ya good thing
Congratulatory/praising phrase in IrE
Jul 13, 2012
jodi commented on the word loquacious
"I assure you, Agha, that any previous loquacious tendancies have been curtailed and that now more than ever have I sought for and achieved new standards of brevity." - http://www.delilahdirk.com/ddattl/ch1-011-012.html
Jul 2, 2012
jodi commented on the word clothes swishing
BrE for clothes swapping (AmE)
Jun 22, 2012
jodi commented on the list arguers-lexicon
A place to replicate the The Arguer’s Lexicon
May 22, 2012
jodi commented on the word not pushed about
to not be overly concerned/worried about IrE; doesn't seem to be used in the positive.
May 21, 2012
jodi commented on the word tweetline
tweetline, a Twitter timeline.
May 16, 2012
jodi commented on the word tweetline
tweetline, a Twitter timeline.
May 16, 2012
jodi commented on the word Hilary term
Hilary term is an academic term from January to March in some Irish and British universities. (See also trimester(AmE).)
May 13, 2012
jodi commented on the word cooptition
See Wikipedia
Feb 12, 2012
jodi commented on the list irish-english-thats-not-in-american-english
See also this and that
Jan 29, 2012
jodi commented on the word paranymph
see also Wikipedia
Jan 29, 2012
jodi commented on the word pop
Geographically related to the northern midwest U.S. but also very common in Canada. See pop vs. soda maps.
Jan 6, 2012
jodi commented on the word washroom
Acceptable, but quaint, in AmE
Jan 6, 2012
jodi commented on the list british-english-thats-not-in-american-english
See also British English to American English
Dec 26, 2011
jodi commented on the word answerphone
BrE for answering machine
Dec 21, 2011
jodi commented on the word A chairde
Irish for Dear friends, often used in greetings especially of semi-formal communications.
Dec 20, 2011
jodi commented on the word go raib maith agat
Irish for thank you, often used interspersed with English, especially in semi-formal communication.
Dec 20, 2011
jodi commented on the word grá
Irish for love, sometimes used in IrE (e.g. example tweet.
Dec 19, 2011
jodi commented on the word fat frog
See also urban dictionary.
Dec 19, 2011
jodi commented on the word dummy
BrE for AmE pacifier, e.g. http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/applicationforms/visa-photo-guidance.pdf
Dec 12, 2011
jodi commented on the word save ends
via geeky Questionable Content tshirt. Appears to be D&D terminology (per this): "most abilities that inflict Conditions on people (such as Silenced) would be "save ends," which means at the end of every round the creature gets to roll a d20 and on a 10 or better, the Condition ends."
Nov 18, 2011
jodi commented on the word spimming
Spam over IM.
See also Urban dictionary
via a ToS that says no "spimming" and no "spamming" (scarequotes included in original).
Nov 7, 2011
jodi commented on the word wandervogel
"There was a new vocabulary word, wandervogel, used to describe the itinerant-traveling-scholar life of a famed researcher when he was in his unformed, rapidly-learning youth: my dictionary tells me that this translates into “bird of passage.” -from Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson, via Mel Chua's blog
Oct 31, 2011
jodi commented on the word kerning
See the kerning game to try your hand at adjusting typesetting.
Oct 28, 2011
jodi commented on the word propinquity
on Wikipedia
Oct 26, 2011
jodi commented on the word satanyanda
Yoga style named after the yoga teacher.
Oct 24, 2011
jodi commented on the word vajazzler
Check Urban Dictionary for this one, it seems.
Oct 17, 2011
jodi commented on the word rhizomatic
For the philosophy term, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_%28philosophy%29
Oct 10, 2011
jodi commented on the word ephebophile
via Case history of a Wikipedia Page: Nabokov’s 'Lolita'
Aug 24, 2011
jodi commented on the word brass ring
Has a nice Wikipedia article.
Aug 19, 2011
jodi commented on the word tome
"To those west of the Shannon the word (tome) has mysteriously and inexplicably been appointed a new and utterly unrelated meaning: cool, or deadly if you speak Finglas." from Tome Magazine
Aug 7, 2011
jodi commented on the word nous
nous as common sense in BrE from M Lynne Murphy.
Aug 4, 2011
jodi commented on the word antiflage
The opposite of camouflage
via Berg London:
Aug 4, 2011
jodi commented on the word hotwords
Sente reference manager uses hotwords to mean "customizable, multiple keywords, displayed in multiple colors". Others should adopt this use, check the video linked from their documentation, it'll make sense.
Aug 1, 2011
jodi commented on the word jiggery-pokery
used in this Questionable Content
Jul 27, 2011
jodi commented on the list historical-euphenisms
Oops! Thanks. Fixed the title. Unfortunately the URL will still show that bad spelling for all the world to see!
Jul 25, 2011
jodi commented on the word gambiologia
Gambiarra is the Brazilian practice of makeshifts, the art of resorting to quirky and smart improvisation in order to repair what doesn’t work or to create what you need with what you have at your disposal. Gambiologia is the ‘science’ that studies this form of creative improvisation and celebrates it by combining it with electronic-digital techniques.” from Gambiologia, the Brazilian art and science of kludging via this blog post.
Jul 24, 2011
jodi commented on the list american-english--1
See also Lynne's comments on `Americanisms' Brits hate
Jul 24, 2011
jodi commented on the word fracking
See also Wikipedia's article on hydraulic fracturing
Jul 21, 2011