Is it a recent trend to blurb or review a book by calling it "wise"? Have people always done this? Really annoying, usually at the end of a list of compliments like "this was heartwarming, funny, down to earth and wise".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 March 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
probably not that recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Wisdom
― mark s, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
"you deserve better"
― groovemaaan, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:10 (five years ago) link
You deserve better than 'you deserve better'.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
"funds" instead of "money" (eg "please send funds for my upcoming book project")
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
Prefer dosh.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
Lettuce
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Filthy lucre
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
Lorne Greene
― Boles to the Wolds (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
spondoolies
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
this was the response to a recent work request: "this will be efforted"
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
gross
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
here's one i've heard around the office a few times: "i just ran out of time"
oh you mean you never got around to it. gotcha
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
"this will be efforted"
Like "have a good one," calls to mind literal defecation
― mick signals, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
whoops here comes another efforting
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
/Directness is a virtue./otm, viva plain language for most immediate communicative purposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_language🕸
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 11 April 2019 06:25 (five years ago) link
How come you have to strive if it’s easy to use?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 11 April 2019 09:06 (five years ago) link
tippy toes
― meaulnes, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
More silly than annoying...The sports call-in was handicapping the Raptors-Magic series. One guy kept bringing up Orlando's "length"--must have said it three or four times. I'm only a casual basketball fan, but does this mean they have a deep bench (i.e., good players lined up down the bench)? Or does it mean they're a tall team? Depth and height are good words. They're quite enough.
I'm going to back away from any other possible meanings.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
In the context of professional basketball, "length" refers to whether a player has longer arms than would be average for a person of their height. A common way to phrase this desirable abnormality would be to say, for example, that a 6' 10" player has the "wingspan" of someone 7' 2".
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
agreed but i personally hate referencing forwards/centers as 'bigs' even more
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link
had a date this weekend and was asked "oh, so you like sportsball then?"
and put a foot out the door : /
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link
I compiled these commandments for student writing, negotiable if they write sentences pleasurable in themselves and/or they prove their arguments.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 April 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
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I once worked with a guy who loathed this expression. I found this baffling because it seemed to me like such an inoffensive thing for a person to say. But now think I get it.
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
this doesn't really annoy me -- the noun is too weird a concept to normalise really -- but i just encountered "veritable cornucopia" in a manuscript i'm editing and it did make me myles-na-gCopaleen at it a bit
what nature does the cornucopia always share with la scission dans l'internationale (situationniste understood)
both are VERITABLE
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
What other generous quantity is veritable?The plethora.
― mick signals, Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
smorgasbord
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
feasts too
strunk and white advises that the editor substitute "motherfucking"
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
ha
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
as someone whose mood on any given day is almost entirely defecation-dependent "have a good one"'s applicability on this front is only one more argument in favor of its high seriousness
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5K2m8-XoAAYhX7.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
brb designing a metal teapot at the cum commune
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
the ultimate chaos didn't cum from the jizz flying everywhere in the trenches, it was having to gtfo nazi germany sharpish for most of 'em!
― calzino, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
The New Yorker coining this phrase makes it ten times better.
― jmm, Sunday, 28 April 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
"daddy?"
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 April 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
I compiled these commandments
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
Anyway, now that I've read then: well done.
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
KINDERGARTEN CUM COMMUNE
seriously
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 28 April 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
tracer hand is a cop
― j., Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
What age are your students, Alfred? I'm going to use some of those with my Y11s (15/16 yr olds). Cheers.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Thank you! From eighteen to sixty-five.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
Charles Boyer turning into Juliette Binoche.
My memoir title.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Using the Latin cum (pronounced "koom"), rather than the English "with", is an affectation, but not the worst affectation around. When spoken, it is easy to detect. When written it should be italicized to emphasize that it is Latin.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
even italicization seems a bit affected when the meaning is apparent. am I wrong? isn't it commonplace now to just type out Latin phrases normally, or at least the more common ones?
but even when cum doesn't mean splooge, it really shouldn't follow the word kindergarten. especially not when the next word is a noun that can be modified by this pairing to make a really lulzy phrase like that
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
It could have been solved by putting dashes to indicate that it is a three-word phrase, like garage-cum-workshop.
Or heck, both dashes and italics. But that wouldn't have kept me (or you lot) from snickering.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorlton-cum-Hardy
... the Bee Gees spent a large part of their childhoods there.
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
... not to mention Chorlton & the Wheelies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo6C_CebBqc
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
the cum wheelies, call them by their name
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
also: in latin it certainly means "with", but in english (as for example in that new yorker tweet) it doesn't mean "with", it's something more like "a cross between" -- hence it *isn't* latin and is only being put in italics to indicate it doesn't mean jizz (which of course draws even more attention to this meaning it doesn't have but can't shake off)
(lol shake off)
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link