google search shows that out of eechuta, ichuta, & echuta, this is the consensus spelling. urban dictionary is the link (of the ones above) which will give origin, if not necessarily conclusive definition.
Possibly the most pretentious word ever if used in conversation because it's pronounced exactly the same as difference and, well, just you try and explain it without coming across as a total goober.
Disappointing that m-w doesn't seem to have it and google turns it up as mostly some kind of fantasy name. Google "sellion rhinoplasty" to get a closer definition. Roughly speaking, it's the most inset/indented part where the brow meets the top of the nose.
'But the most telling objection is "the suggestion (not explicitly articulated yet clearly implied) that the rules allowing the system to answer questions at native-speaker level can be couched merely in terms of manipulation of the symbols of the language", without requiring an understanding of "abstract patterns transcending the signs of Chinese, or of any human language - patterns behind the scenes, having to do with how ideas and concepts and knowledge are represented in complex, overlapping associative networks in the human mind".'
Searle is silly and wrong, but this is not such a strong objection. "Complex, overlapping associative networks" aren't some magical boundary of requiring comprehension vs. not requiring comprehension; they're just a massive & massively complicated set of contingent rules.
Plural of Is. From Sam Kieth's The Maxx. No eyes, nose or ears, but lots of teeth to make up for it. They are generally white in Pangaea and black in our world.
juv3nal commented on the word dyscadentic
via http://www.lostgarden.com/2012/12/understanding-randomness-in-terms-of.html
possibly a new coinage on his part?
Dec 31, 2012
juv3nal commented on the word symphorophilia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphorophilia
Oct 8, 2010
juv3nal commented on the word rithmomachia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachia
Jun 28, 2010
juv3nal commented on the word glemphy
http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog/archives/000241.html
Jun 25, 2010
juv3nal commented on the list what-david-foster-wallace-circled-in-his-dictionary
Wow. That list is longer than I thought. This will take a while.
Apr 14, 2010
juv3nal commented on the word anapausis
http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/372.htm
Jan 21, 2010
juv3nal commented on the word gol olimpico
In football/soccer, a goal scored directly from a corner kick. wikipedia
Aug 30, 2009
juv3nal commented on the word lieu vague
"a location which should not be particularised"
towards the bottom of the first paragraph here.
Aug 14, 2009
juv3nal commented on the word xerolac
countering agent/antidote for the popular, but fraught with hazardous side-effects, weight loss drug calorex.
Dec 6, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word prorogue
see also procleric, profighter etc. ;P
Dec 5, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word rabona
wikipedia has the def.
Dec 5, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word afflation
free dictionary defines as:
"n. 1. A blowing or breathing on; inspiration."
Dec 2, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word dirt nap
no nothing to do with the prison break tv show. fallout 1, set's dialogue.
Sep 13, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word mamihlapinatapais
via
Sep 13, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word callipygienthusiasm
None of the above. I'm callipygienthusiasthmathematical.
Jul 30, 2008
juv3nal commented on the list websites-we-have-known-and-loved
Hey. These were all mentioned on the latest metafilter podcast.
Apr 16, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word vince
what you can't do to something that is invincible.
Apr 2, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word echuta
how rude!
google search shows that out of eechuta, ichuta, & echuta, this is the consensus spelling. urban dictionary is the link (of the ones above) which will give origin, if not necessarily conclusive definition.
Jan 30, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word différance
I'm not falling for that.
I'll let wikipedia look like a goober for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff%C3%A9rance
Jan 7, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word différance
Possibly the most pretentious word ever if used in conversation because it's pronounced exactly the same as difference and, well, just you try and explain it without coming across as a total goober.
Jan 6, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word axlotl
Also, come to think of it, the name given to the tleilaxu breeding tanks from Herbert's Dune series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axlotl_tank
Jan 5, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word axlotl
looks like a pokemon sometimes: http://www.rasselbandi.info/mediac/400_0/media/axlotl.jpg
Jan 3, 2008
juv3nal commented on the word lagomorph
"I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph"
- Max of Sam & Max: Hit The Road
Nov 21, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word dérive
see also flâneur
Nov 21, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word flâneur
see also dérive
Nov 21, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word sellion
Disappointing that m-w doesn't seem to have it and google turns it up as mostly some kind of fantasy name. Google "sellion rhinoplasty" to get a closer definition. Roughly speaking, it's the most inset/indented part where the brow meets the top of the nose.
Oct 12, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word undulant
really? I thought "ant" was a present participle formation, which would make undare or undulare (verbs) more likely the root?
Mar 30, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word the chinese room
'But the most telling objection is "the suggestion (not explicitly articulated yet clearly implied) that the rules allowing the system to answer questions at native-speaker level can be couched merely in terms of manipulation of the symbols of the language", without requiring an understanding of "abstract patterns transcending the signs of Chinese, or of any human language - patterns behind the scenes, having to do with how ideas and concepts and knowledge are represented in complex, overlapping associative networks in the human mind".'
Searle is silly and wrong, but this is not such a strong objection. "Complex, overlapping associative networks" aren't some magical boundary of requiring comprehension vs. not requiring comprehension; they're just a massive & massively complicated set of contingent rules.
Mar 22, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word astacology
I study them...
...in my belly.
yum.
Mar 6, 2007
juv3nal commented on the list the-shortening-of-the-way
Aw. I was going to do a Dune list. Might as well just favorite yours. Herbert made up cool names.
Ones I like that you missed: tleilaxu, bene gesserit
Feb 21, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word reflexive
reflexive
Feb 19, 2007
juv3nal commented on the list overrated-words
tantamount, intrinsic, facetious, & ubiquitous should be on that list if the people I went to school with are a good basis by which to judge.
Feb 16, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word augemented reality
You probably mean augmented reality, no?
Jan 29, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word fuzzy
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a skinhead bear?
Same old story, polar bears tryin' to keep the black bear down.
Jan 26, 2007
juv3nal commented on the list words-of-the-cthulhu-mythos
nyarlathotep & shub-niggurath also.
Jan 25, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word voynich
as in manuscript.
Jan 24, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word meep
Sound made by the Isz.
Jan 23, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word isz
Plural of Is. From Sam Kieth's The Maxx. No eyes, nose or ears, but lots of teeth to make up for it. They are generally white in Pangaea and black in our world.
Jan 23, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word pataphor
Like a metaphor, but not really. See: Pataphysics, the Beatle's song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
Jan 17, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word oulipopo
Offshoot of the oulipo, but for detective stories. The extra "po" is short for Policière.
Jan 17, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word tear
tear as in crying or tear as in ripping.
bow, cleave, polish (if you all-caps it)...any other homographs like this?
Jan 11, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word nick
proper name, noun and verb all in one.
Dec 13, 2006