milosrdenstvi has looked up 3369 words, created 37 lists, listed 2002 words, written 1251 comments, added 42 tags, and loved 1 word.
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Strangely enough I've not used that word here yet. It doesn't seem to be a very common vegetable in these parts.
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ავოკადოოო.
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Greetings to all and to zuzu in particular! Please see account of my peregrinations at შეთანხმდებოდნენ.
Milo is good. Only ever had it in South America, though; it doesn't seem to be too ubiquitous in the States, or here. -
Hey- just a question that popped into my head when I was reading some old comments: Do you like Milo?
As in,http://aussiefavourites.com.au/cornershop/images/nes_milo450.jpg"> this Milo?
I don't know if you get that a lot around here and I'm just missing something... but it really got me wonderin'. :) -
ავოკადოოო!!!
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Wasn't "Homicide: Life on the Street" set in Baltimore?
Edit: Wait--did they both come from the same source? Never mind. -
We have been enjoying "The Wire" on DVD. I love that it's such a great show and that it's set in Baltimore--which doesn't get enough attention. The other night was an episode where the gang of cops was all eating crabs at a particularly famous crab restaurant (which I know only from an episode of "No Reservations").
Sorry if this seems completely out of the blue--your comment about Baltimore on another page reminded me of your geographic-ness. :)
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წარმატებები!
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How would I say "Congratulations--I'm glad you get to go back" in Georgian?
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I appreciate you adding to my Greek Mythology lists. :D
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Re: "more good songs in Spanish" - check out the classic "Trio Los Panchos" oeuvre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Panchos
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Avocado?
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არტიშოკი!
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"milosrdenstvi has added 28 lists containing 1,454 words, 42 comments, 42 tags, 9 favorites, and 59 pronunciations."
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If you want to use a Greek or Greekish plural without sounding pedantic, you can just momentarily halt amidwords and then give the “-podes” a slightly rising intonation. It’ll sound as if you weren’t sure about the English plural, but inferred it from your extensive knowledge of ancient languages, which is certainly no falsehood.
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Natural language, it seems, has a penchant for rendering consistency and pedantry antithetical. In Sheldon’s defense I have to remark, however, that I cannot remember his actually maintaining the plural was anything else than an English plural.
By the way, I’ve just noticed that platypi is not etymologically “correct”. Luckily, I’ve never yet used the term. ^^ -
Lol, thanks! Evidently, it is already possible on Wordnik to look such things up in much more depth than in (regular) dictionaries by just asking the resident etymologists.
By hard c I assume you mean the /k/–/s/ distinction, or is there something Greek-specific I don’t know about? (Ancient Greek, apparently, differentiates between aspirated and unaspirated k.) The pronunciation Sheldon chose was /ˈkɒksɪˌdʒiz/, if I remember correctly, which is listed second after /kɒkˈsaɪdʒiz/ in Random House. Both could be interpreted as rendering the third c softly. Pronouncing the same sound twice in a row strikes me as rather atypical of English phonotactics, so should he rather have pronounced cc as one /k/ (had he been Greek and ancient)?
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Milos: Don't know of a mineral named after a place in Georgia. However, tvalchrelidzeite is a mineral species named for A.A. Tvalchrelidze (b. 1915), an academician at the Georgia Academy of Science, from specimens collected from the Gomi As-Sb-Hg deposit, Oni District, Racha-Lochkhumi-Kvemo Svaneti Region, Georgia.
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Gosh Milos, if you didn't do it on purpose you're in the same predicament as me (and Pro, as far as I understand). We could start a club for the decapitated! ;-)
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Just popped by to say I loved your onomatopoeia!
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Kudos to you, then. That's a more comprehensive list than many modern Greeks could possibly muster.
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I enjoyed your Greek Remarks list. Are you a Greek or just a gnostic?
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გამარჯობათ! The words you've been adding are fantastic!
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It really is pretty when you hear it. Thanks.
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Actually, I'm not incredibly sure exactly how it's pronounced -- I originated it from literary rather than verbal sources, and my Czech isn't the greatest; rolig would be able to pronounce it much closer to actual than I would. But all that said, I've given it how it sounds in my head at milosrdenstvi.
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Milo, I would very much like to hear you pronounce your name. Do you take requests??
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Milosrdenstvi, I think if you can reconstruct the messed up list items, that is probably the best course of action.
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Thanks!
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Do you want to tell that joke you alluded to on ruzuzu's list?
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Thank you, Milo.
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Milo, I enjoy your contributions. I am seeking a new name. I cannot be associated with Jesus as Logos. It was your posting that got me thinking along these lines. And no, I have not risen; I am still around.
milosrdenstvi commented on the word macedoine
"There's a macedoine of languages spoken in East Palo Alto..." http://apps.npr.org/codeswitch-changing-races/
Apr 20, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word intercourse
For me there is no thought of intercourse (use, not reference) without corresponding memories of this brilliant Python sketch.
Feb 18, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word herpestine
But surely herpetology is amphibians. Would the study of mongeeses be herpestology? And what would a herpest be? A venereal disease causing sharp teeth, appetite for cobra egg, and a predilection for saying "rkchkchkchkchkchkchkchk!" in the traverse 'tween bed and bathtub?
Feb 17, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
Haitches shouldn't count 'less you actually say them. Four graphemes is not nearly so impressive as four phonemes. See also გვფრცქვნი - having eight rather than nine, incidentally.
Feb 17, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word გვფრცქვნი
Pronounced "gvprtskvni": "you are peeling us". Spoken, no doubt, by a tribe of glossolalian tangerines.
Feb 17, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word Former Popes Anonymous
Did you mean "former pipes anonymous"?
Feb 17, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word fantods
Didn't David Foster Wallace use it enough times to last us the next couple of decades?
Feb 2, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word misconnect
Beginning a recent final descent some steward observed over the PA "The captain has illuminated the fasten-seatbelt sign..." For some reason I heard eliminated and spent most of the balance of the flight imagining various possible violent means of sign elimination by captains before I realized elimination of a sign didn't jive with turning it on.
Jan 14, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word misconnect
Used by a flight desk flunky at the airport the other day (not MKE this time!) for "miss a connection". I nearly misconnected in Denver but fortunately made it to the gate just in time.
Jan 14, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word recombobulation
Spotted this in the Milwaukee airport tonight -- a large sign designated a number of tables past the security scanners as the "Recombobulation Area". I wonder who the clever logophile was who coined this, and the significance of the tacit admission that the whole rigmarole of airport security is indeed discombobulating.
Jan 3, 2013
milosrdenstvi commented on the word WYSIWYG
Pronounced "wizzy-wig".
Dec 20, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the word amax
But that is Amex, surely, whereas this is some foully and unnaturally murthered Latin verb conjugation.
Dec 20, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the word mean anomaly
Why can't the anomaly just be nice like everybody else?
May 14, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the word avuncular
Well, if it's from Finnegans Wake, you hardly need to ask...
May 4, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the list words-from-georgia
The crazy thing is, I'm fluent in this stuff now, after having been here for so long. სულ თავისუფლად ვლაპარაკობ ქართულ ენას... never would have guessed, after making this list after the 1st trip those many years ago. მიყვარხარ საქართველო!
May 4, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the word pulse
M. Gandhi uses this word frequently in the sense of "legume" in his autobiography "The Story of My Experiments With Truth". Confused the heck out of me.
Feb 16, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
Wilbur and Napoleon?
Edit: forgot Piglet (of course) and the sneezing baby in Alice. Wiki suggests Lord of the Flies, which is a good one. That's more or less all I can call to mind from literature at least.
Jan 9, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the word floss
Really fascinating to observe the complete changeover in meaning of this word in the past century, from geography and botany to hygiene. The full sets of definitions by American Heritage and Century have almost no overlap. It would be very interesting to trace the semantic shifts more carefully, but at the moment all I can observe is (a) there used to be a mill on one of them and (b) TMItter.
Jan 9, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the list it-has-a-name
Check 'em out.
Jan 6, 2012
milosrdenstvi commented on the word onund
I had a dream where I was trying to convince everybody I knew that onund was not a word. Fortunately it seems not to be. My subconscious remains sane.
Nov 7, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word ground squirrel
Is not the mantled ground squirrel not unlike the mounted liger?
Oct 28, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word occupy Wordnik
Perhaps I've been *severely* overly influenced by Spanish ocupar. Now that I mention this fact to the world it might also only exist in certain dialects. Funny how I was so sure it was valid in English too.
Oct 28, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word astronomer
Here's a hint: the differences in meaning between λόγος and νόμος are excellently explained by exact parallel between the English words astrologer and astronomer. I'm assuming of course you know "aster" means "star".
Oct 28, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word მტდრედი
Mt'redi: sticking with the theme begun at columbarium. Means "dove". Always kind of liked this word. There's also a town called სამტდრედია, Samt'redia, kind of "the place where doves are, which town has always amused me. Occupy სამტდრედია!
Oct 28, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word canned umbrage
Is this canned as in like canned like Spam or canned as in like canned like WD-40? Or does it all come in watering cans? Have you a Zans for Cans? You should.
Oct 28, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word occupy Wordnik
I've always been secretly amused at the use of occupy as a synonym for defecate. Perhaps I've been overly influenced by Spanish.
Oct 28, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word columbarium
Just learnt the highly surprising but etymological no-brainer sense of dovecot(e) the other day from "Waverly". Century #2 is helpful as always in elucidation of "why the heck".
Oct 28, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word vigorish
A contender for the "that suffix doesn't mean what you think it does" award, along with contumely and ruthless.
Oct 20, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word strew
I suppose the simple past is strewed and p.p. strewn. I'm sure I've misused this in my time. I tend to favour irregular constructions.
Oct 10, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word nepenthe
Quaff, oh quaff.
Sep 30, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word 28
26, on the other hand, is the only number known to be adjacent both to a square and a cube.
Sep 30, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word loo
Head is Navy usage.
Sep 20, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word new interface
I was going to come here to report A VERY PERSISTENT BUG THAT HAD BEEN ANNOYING ME OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS. Namely that when I went to a word's page and saw my list of lists there, I would want to right-click on the name of a list and open it, and see my list! როგორც we kinda used to be able to a long long time ago in prehistory. PAGE NOT FOUND, the hell what is this PAGE NOT FOUND. But now I just realised that oops, what actually that LINK is for is it is a LINK to add said word to a LIST (and I accidentally added sherbet to a list just now, to prove it, on a list it doesn't belong in, but I'm leaving it anyway). So no wonder PAGE NOT FOUND when I try to open in new window. The hell. So it's not an ANNOYING BUG, just my stupidity. In this case, instead of reporting this ANNOYING BUG can I very *humbly* ask that maybe I can have some way to link to my lists from a word page? როგორც kinda how we used to. Not exactly, 'cause it wasn't ALL our lists, but some, anyway, well, anyway, it was on the same spot on the screen and I'm a fogey and an old one at that and it doesn't work the way როგორც it kinda used to, kinda. And while I'm at it I want a wittle scrollie bar for long comments like this 'un. 'Cause the beginning of my comment is afraid of the dark and I want to be able to see it when I want, without futzing about with arrow keys, the hell. როგორც kinda we used to, maybe, 'cause I can't remember that far back anymore. Maybe there wasn't a wittle scrollie bar and the wittle comment box just enlargenified. Yeah, prob'ly that was it. Guess which book I'm reading? No, don't.
Sep 20, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word requisitioned
verb = participle = noun = adjective
Aug 21, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word crab
Yeah, you call that catching a crab. It doesn't always throw you out of the boat (a bad one at high speed will) but it's kind of painful and not exactly great for race momentum.
Jul 30, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word mundungus
But how do you remember what it means?
Jul 29, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word Bossche bol
In a few days' time I'll be taking a vacation from საქართველო to schmooze through the Netherlands for two weeks. This includes a day's stop at the wonderfully named city of 's-Hertogenbosch, or Den Bosch, pretty much solely for this reason. It's such an amazing idea I can't believe I've never heard of it before.
Jul 26, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word worldly
I find this adjective very interesting in terms of its connotational semantics. Part of a religious upbringing set Century #4 as the chief definition in my mind, thus establishing it as a negative adjective; but most instances I hear nowadays are along the lines of American Heritage #2, a generally positive attribution. Nevertheless I retain a negative impression on hearing this word and have to artificially remember its positive use.
Jul 26, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word blefuscu
In Gulliver's Travels, the second miniscule country opposed to Lilliput. (Properly Blefuscu.)
Jul 21, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word bury
Along with choir, a leading candidate for the "unpredictable vowel" award.
Jul 19, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word repine
I saw the use of this as a synonym for yearn, pine. Dictionaries here say it's all right but it still seems a misusage to me -- I've never seen it contextually thus in any real author. Can someone contradict?
Jul 17, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word Timtim
Abbreviation of Timor Timur, the old Indonesian name for East Timor (Timor-Leste), now uncommon. Source: ye olde wikkie
Jul 17, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the list i-d-rather-have-a-bottle-in-front-of-me
You, sir, are a shining wit.
Jul 16, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the user dvdbest
Go spectabundal the new interface.
Jul 11, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word copepoda
Yikes!
Jul 11, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word teller
As I recall there were many very interesting words of bell-ringing lore in that book. Alas, I cannot remember.
Jul 11, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word literally
"There was a sad and melancholy cadence in her voice, corresponding with the strange and interesting romance of her situation. So young, so beautiful, so untaught, so much abandoned to herself, and deprived of all the support which her sex derives from the countenance and protection of female friends, and even of that degree of defence which arises from the forms with which the sex are approached in civilised life,—it is scarce metaphorical to say, that my heart bled for her."
Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy. Victorian "literally"!
Jul 10, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word teller
Also tailor (cf. Dorothy L. Sayers novel The Nine Tailors, containing much fascinating English bell-ringing lore).
Jul 10, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word may my feet bring prosperity
An Armenian friend of mine says this when entering a house as a guest. I think it a very nice custom.
Jul 9, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word plinth
Happened to walk past this same park again today. The word was still there. I feel powerful.
Jul 8, 2011