NV: catachresis?
― Sideshow Gladwell (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:23 (eight years ago)
Feel like the AP has just given up lately.
http://i.imgur.com/DA7yQEC.jpg?1
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:28 (eight years ago)
Puffin - yeah i guess so altho i don't think catachresis covers the "word ends up acquiring its misuse as a new valid definition" element
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:29 (eight years ago)
That waitlist (n) wait-list (v) kind of thing doesn't bother me at all.
Lots of compounds do similar costume changes when used in different ways. Mostly they tend to close over time, but they do so by degrees.
Compare: "She owns a small business." Noun. Vs. "She is a small-business owner." Compound modifier. Hyphenated to avoid potential ambiguity over whether she's small or the business is small.
Is there ambiguity introduced by wait list vs. waitlist vs. wait-list? No, not really, but it isn't weird on its face to have the noun close faster than the verb.
― Sideshow Gladwell (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:33 (eight years ago)
Ugh, so glad wait list and wait-list haven't made it across the Atlantic yet. Give it time though.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:41 (eight years ago)
I'm very annoyed by people who mis-pronouce things in a jokey way too often, and then begin insisting that their pronunciation is correct and is the one you must use in their earshot.
Person a: Have you seen this bio-pic? (pronounces bio-pic as a normal human would)Person b: You mean a biopic? (pronounces it like a piece of medical equipment)
This also goes for people who say Spiderman the way one would say Lieberman. It may have been funny once.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:57 (eight years ago)
what kind of people do you hang out with
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:57 (eight years ago)
lol
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:58 (eight years ago)
I said "biopic" once in high school and a kid said "bio-pic? I think you mean biopic [to rhyme with myopic]" I wonder whatever happened to him
― conrad, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:00 (eight years ago)
eaten by a lion
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:00 (eight years ago)
one of my colleagues just now on the telephone said he'd go through something with a "tooth comb" perhaps a slip of the tongue but just as likely that he thinks a there is a thing called a "tooth comb"
― conrad, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:01 (eight years ago)
replacing flossing iirc
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:02 (eight years ago)
My friend told me someone he knew was "Vapor acted" the other day
always pronounced it "lee-on" and didn't understand the warning shout
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:03 (eight years ago)
also people who pronounce Sci-fi as "Siffy"
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:04 (eight years ago)
i say "ess eff" cos i know some SF nerds who get really pissy about "Sy Fy"
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:06 (eight years ago)
i watched one of those cheesy in-class movies in Biology once in high school where the dude kept referring to the element as "al-yoo-min-ee-um" and laughed at him only to realize years later that we in North America are the only idiots who say it/spell it "aluminum"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:07 (eight years ago)
i know! i seem to recall reading a long time ago that your pronunciation is older/more etymologically established tho
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:09 (eight years ago)
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
there you go, U-S-A, U-S-A
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:11 (eight years ago)
but then weirdly i guess Americans don't use "calcum" or "potassum" or etc
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:12 (eight years ago)
I'm not a fan of wait-list being a verb in the first place.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:12 (eight years ago)
"Placed on the wait list" is fine. Why is anyone in such a hurry, since we're already literally talking about WAITING?
Also I have seen SciFi (the cable TV channel) jocularly spelled as if it were pronounced "Skiffy." (On Facebook, so, take that for what it's worth.)
― Sideshow Gladwell (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:14 (eight years ago)
They changed their name to SyFy which is like... so much worse than "skiffy" jokes
― a simba man (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:25 (eight years ago)
when I worked in a call centre it seemed like the majority of customers over the age of, say, 60 pronounced WiFi as "wiffy" - it didn't annoy me, though
― soref, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:29 (eight years ago)
but it was weird when they pronounced "spiffy" as 'spy-fy'
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:32 (eight years ago)
I know a person from the Netherlands who says wifi as "veefee," which is correct for many Yurpean languages, and I actually find it kinda charming. I don't do this myself in USian contexts, as I do not enjoy getting punched in the mouth
― think zebras, not horses, unless you're in Africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:37 (eight years ago)
I've heard it pronounced "weefy" across Central and South America.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:54 (eight years ago)
ya wifi is pronounced weefee in a lot of places which is cool
in south america i've heard it pronounced interneto which is awesome
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 19:42 (eight years ago)
interneato
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 19:48 (eight years ago)
Mine: People saying 'mischievious'
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― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 4 August 2016 01:29 (eight years ago)
'tweetstorm', as though someone typing with their thumbs on a phone is some awesome display of majestic rage. 12 consecutive sentences is not a storm. It's a paragraph.
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 4 August 2016 05:25 (eight years ago)
"sessions." Every fucking music blog/wanna be publication calls their live sets "sessions."
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 4 August 2016 14:19 (eight years ago)
Haha, good friend of mine who is a professional event DJ, has lots of radio experience, etc. puts up Instagram photos all the time of what he's listening to on his turntable and labels them "vinyl session."
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Thursday, 4 August 2016 14:24 (eight years ago)
"session" just screams tongue-clicking indieboy thoughtfulness to me idk it makes my skin crawl
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 4 August 2016 14:29 (eight years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/yQgFiTp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/IivJYSL.png
http://i.imgur.com/UouLy1f.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 4 August 2016 14:50 (eight years ago)
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, August 4, 2016 12:25 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink the term and the genre equally irritate me. Just write a fucking op-ed.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:01 (eight years ago)
Your opinion about Trump is not the fucking tractatus logico-philosophicus
xpost yeah, there's something super annoying about all the knuckle-cracking and here-we-going before someone fires off 20 tweets. But I suppose confining that much self-righteousness to a single paragraph might cause some kind of black hole to appear in the internet.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:06 (eight years ago)
JM laying down a tweetstorm truthbomb
― we're gonna live in spatula city (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:09 (eight years ago)
tweetstorm truthbomb thumbstrain
― think zebras, not horses, unless you're in Africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:29 (eight years ago)
I'm getting pretty tired of the ironic usage of lizard people/person
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:34 (eight years ago)
otm making light of a serious issue imo
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:37 (eight years ago)
they need to be stopped
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:39 (eight years ago)
should be scaled back
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:41 (eight years ago)
i don't like "sessions" that much either but it's one word. it's hard to find another one-word description of a live performance that quite fits. "gigs" sounds kind of wanky and somehow tied into selling tickets at a venue. "live set" is two words and sounds a bit insiderish. ???
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 August 2016 22:32 (eight years ago)
and don't even get me started on "performance"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 August 2016 22:33 (eight years ago)
i hate crooked now
― estela, Thursday, 4 August 2016 22:46 (eight years ago)
by David Sedaris
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 August 2016 23:41 (eight years ago)
:D
― estela, Friday, 5 August 2016 09:58 (eight years ago)
Overuse of acronyms on this forum and on twitter drive me crazy. So many of them are not obvious at all and difficult to search. "nagl" is an abomination.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 12 August 2016 15:55 (eight years ago)