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Which word or words learnt on ILE do you now use in general conversation elsewhere?

For me it's "mentalist".

― MarkH, Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah I've used mentalist a few times.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

k-, obv, obv.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

haha it's "haha"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

pH34r m3! I am addicted to that l33t shit now.

― DG (D_To_The_G), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm l33t oldschool, so that was nothing new for me. (1989, baby - l33t from the age of 6) But I do definately use the world 'mentalist' a lot now. Actually, I think it more than I say it. But this is happening a lot more these days.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

every time i say "great" i spell it differently in my head

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 August 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Me too. Grate & great sound different in my head too due to imagined spelling, but they sound the same out loud.

I think fuXor (fucksaur) a fair bit but luckily haven't let it slip out in company yet.

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 30 August 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm totally feeling the grate/great thing - grate sounds er, grate in my head. doncha know.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 30 August 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i use "but WHO is WHO? and who will WIN?" often. thanks mark s!

― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 30 August 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep thinking "Wh

― Miss Laura, Friday, 30 August 2002 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit.

I keep thinking "what is X (and can we eat it)".

― Miss Laura, Friday, 30 August 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm forever looking for a situation where I can call somebody a cockfarmer, but so far, no good situations have showed up.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Mentalist is used by alot of people now anyway.....not sure where it came from

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

god everything you say is so catchy... i find myself using it all all the time but at the same time feeling like it's not mine and i'm an ilx fraud

― minna (minna), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I first heard 'mentalist' on Alan Partridge.

― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Same here.

― Rex, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Mentalist was a deadly insult in my primary school playground. I'd totally forgotten about it until Katie's brother mentioned how his philosphy lecturer going on about mentalists had reduced him to fits of giggles. This must have been two or three years ago now, and I've been using it ever since.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i associate mentalist with alan partridge as well...cockfarmer has found its way into my vocabulary on occasion..

― robin (robin), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

the subject line of one of my emails today was SuXoR.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

(Do not read if you hate me)

I have tricked several into moments of email non-hate including a former boss, which was genuinely gratifying.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

tonight i told my friend that a restaurant was great with a capital B

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 31 August 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i guess the "my" is deliberate and i only have one friend

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 31 August 2002 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

fuxor always sounds like fuck sore when said aloud. It hasnt discouraged me.
uh oh

― jeskam, Saturday, 31 August 2002 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Not that I first came across the phrase here, but I didn't regularly say "Oh no! Compilation error! Oh no!" (with various things fitted in the middle, obv) before ILX.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 31 August 2002 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep myself from saying "classic or dud?" out loud. but i do say "cockfarmer" and "oh no! FITE! oh no!"

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 31 August 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh ooh I learnt 'charver' as well, always good to dazzle the natives in Romford with

― DG (D_To_The_G), Sunday, 1 September 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i say classic or dud all the time,out loud.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 1 September 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

cockfarmer is now my favourite thing to yell at fellow motorists.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 1 September 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

mentalist, cockfarmer, fapfapfap, IRL. to fap, i add the suffix -tastic.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 1 September 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't haha from Nelson-on-the-Simpsons? I've always heard it such.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 September 2002 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

That's Ha Ha!, surely, not haha, which sounds completely different to me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 September 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone give me a good definition of mentalist? And I still don't get this xor business. Damn I feel so 'nu-'!

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

No, haha is more like aHA! rather than haa haa which = Nelson! Gosh what a strange alternative reading gor blimey.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

nono haha is completely w/o stresses of any kind and deadpan, unlike aHA or the Muntzian HAH-hah

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I know it's not a-HA but I couldn't think of a better way to describe it but you are k-korrekt!

Haha I say k-korreckt in real life too but I ph34r it just sounds like a stammer.

Ph34r is pronounced with more emphasis and a "phhhhh" sound rather than a "fuhhh" sound.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

olde mentalism:

http://www.drmcgill.com/img29.gif

nu-mentalism:

http://www.tema.liu.se/people/yvowa/altcog/img005.gif

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't ph34r pronounced with massive over emphasis on the 4r, kind of as a cat-like scowl: [phe]-aaaaaar?

I've gone into mentalism attempting to work out the phonetics of muntzian laff.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

technically this cat-like scowl is known as "be-ARD assonance"

muntzian laff = descending minor third, faux-stress on first syllable, all aspirants sounded (viz glottal fricative)

phonitiXoR r00lz: http://www.reed.edu/~weise/alphabets/ipa/ipa.html

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

No ph34r != be-ARD. Phhhhhhh333333(4r) m3333333333 ect ect

(Eck-uh-tuh, eck-kuh-tuh or if yr reading quickly ekt ekt)

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha, the Elaine as "beard" and Goerge w/ wig ep of Seinfeld was on last night.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

ROWRR labial plosives!

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I want you all to know that it's taking a Herculean level of effort to not take "labial plosives" and run with them. (There, that should set the disturbing mental image for today...)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

OI dan don't even *try* and take my credit...

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

...and anyway where would you run having taken said plosives? it's not like they'd let you into any restaurants or anything- NO NO STOP TALKING NOW

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Christine - lucky you.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

This appeared on b3ta yesterday:

http://www.btinternet.com/~media_whore/images/twunt.jpg

now if we can get them to do grebt and cockfarmer, we'll have done a reverse takeover. marv.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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