/vocab/ ITT we post words that we learn or are reminded of, along

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>>25615009
I will start. I thought that "apocryphal" meant mysterious or cryptic. Or describing an archetype.
And then someone was talking about the "apocryphal statements on Fox News being accepted as truth by a 2.5mm primetime viewing audience", and I thought hm... I need to Google that definition.

>>25615089
Two of my favorites:
Prurient - of, or given to an obsession with sexual matters.
Defenestration - to throw someone or something out of a window.

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>>25615483
You reminded me of Defenestration of Prague! Something I remember hearing about in EU history class, but never remembered the events or significance. To Wikipedia!

>>25615009
Op is a faggot

Faggot- a bundle of sticks

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>>25615615
Your trolling is specious. Don't you think that if I were a homosexual male that I'd be content to look at all the dick rate threads and wouldn't bother trying to connect with people who love words?

I'm so fatigued by monosyllabic adjectives like "sad", "great", and "bad" and hyperbolic adjectives like "amazing", and "incredible".

It's a fun challenge- might be more fun than trolling! Give it a try!

>>25615546
The (second) defenestration of Prague predates the eu by 350ish years tho?

Words are alright I guess. Using old latinate or Greek ones to seem smart is usually dumb tho. 4chan has plenty of memes for you to linguistically assess f you're actually interested in language

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>>25615009
Is this a thinly-veiled "show off your pens and inks" thread?

Because I'm way down.

That's an unbranded glass pen, and a pilot custom 823. The inks are J Herbin Blue Provanche & 1670 Anniversary Carob, along with a Noodler Rome Burning on Rhodia unruled.

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>>25615009
Vocabulary
Have the oxford unabridged entry

>>25615793
You are right - I was using EU as an abbreviation because I was too lazy to type out "European"
I concur that using words to appear intelligent is arrogant and generally counterproductive. My intent in initiating the thread was to be /soc/ial by having people share vocabulary discoveries and therefore, we'd learn more about each others' interests / lives.

>>25615796
Was not the intent. I use cheap pens and pencils. But your words, pic and writing utensils please my eyeballs and bring me joy. :) Thank you!
In a recursive way, I'd have to say that I've learned the meaning of "desiderium" on 4chan. Kinda makes my heart ache, though since I am afflicted with desiderium for someone I met through /soc/.

>>25615910
Appreciated. :) Oxford unabridged does a more thorough job than the Googs.

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>>25615089
Apocryphal

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>>25615483
Defenestration

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>>25615483
Prurient

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>>25615615
Faggot

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>>25615723
Specious

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>>25615723
Hyperbolic

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>>25615976
And a picture the page for dictionary
To give an idea as to how small the words are.

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>>25615996
I actually learned that one from Milan Kundera. And I am pretty sure it's because The Unbearable Lightness of Being got made into a movie in, like, 1998, that that word became popular.

>>25615976
>Was not the intent. I use cheap pens and pencils. But your words, pic and writing utensils please my eyeballs and bring me joy. :) Thank you!
Here's some rose-scented ink. It's incredibly cool. It is a very-likeable hobby to get into. Do you like words? Get into the hobby of writing them as, by itself, a work of art. It's fucking rad.

Know what? Gimme your contact info. I'll get you started. Because more people should have this hobby and I'm bored.

>>25615976
Sorry about the landscape view
My phone doesn't let me change the rotation of the photos

>>25616022
O_O
Whoa, anon! Are you a student, photographer, some combination of the above? I appreciate the images, but I was more interested in getting to know other via our serendipitous word discoveries. Word definitions and etymology are a secondary benefit imo. :)

>>25616035
I hafta git to the gym but am excited to look up your references and continue the convo. bbl! <3

>>25616067
Amateur photographer
Though I would love to be an archivist photographer.

Just helping those that are curious about older definitions
definitions change over time
A troll would enjoy being able to use the older definitions of common words
in order to cause confusion and misunderstanding

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>>25616035
Added to my "to read" list, although my backlog is distressing. :\ Going on vacation next month, so I'm looking forward to plowing through some books.

What makes you think I don't aesthetically script out words that I encounter and look up? ;) It's the only way I have a chance of remembering them. Plus, it's relaxes me. I have a notebook where I hoard word discoveries like the tiny treasures they are...

When did you get into this niche hobby?

>>25616041
*waves aside your unnecessary apologies*
I don't get bent out of shape about rotated images.
>>25616095
What subject matter would you want to capture first as an archivist photographer?
>Just helping those that are curious about older definitions
>definitions change over time
Oh yeah, I gotcha! Anachronisms can be fun.

A little tangential, but the word "fulminating" came up in a medical context yesterday related to my friend's dire "fulminating pneumonitis". I had always known that word relative to what rebelling crowds do and had no idea that it was used differently in the medical community to describe diseases that take precipitous changes.

>>25615723
>thinks being a twat is better than trolling
>doesn't know I'm and English teacher
You're all sorts of wrong

>>25616003
Ebin. Thanks anon

>>25616414
XD
I made no such implication about the relative fun of being a twat versus trolling. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive. I enjoy some occasional trolling myself incaseyahaven'tnoticed.

You've been fun to play with, although now I'm gonna hafta chug some water to balance out dat salt bomb, whew!

>>25616403
I just think it would be fun and worthwhile to archive historical texts
so that they could be preserved and and recreated
obviously it would be prudent to start with the older and most damaged texts

obviously though it would be expensive and would require
at least three cameras, and an oversized optical sensor in the same rig
Infra-red, Visible light, Ultra-violet, x-ray
unfortunately to do the job right would be a destructive process
literally disassembling the book and processing each page separately

A second Dream I would love to see realized would be a publishing company
based on the concept of a quantum digital archive

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Slang originating from Midlands UK

"Peak" a short snappy anecdote to regard how unfortunate an event or situation is

"I've misplaced my lighter"
"Peak"

"Yegs" (pic related)
A derogatory term given to the crumbly small bitty leftovers from an ounce of cannabis

"Cats"
A highly derogatory term given to fiends or wannabe roadmen, the term "kitten" stems from this and is given to young "cats"


Hope I've enlightened you all and have not misunderstood the point of this thread

>>25616796
Fascinating. What got you interested in archival photography? Prior work at a museum of sorts or just love of historical preservation?

>>25617479
Heeey, thanks! So many words that mean different things around the world in English speaking territories! I probably won't remember words like this unless I see/hear it in context with conversation or in my media diet, but can appreciate. :)

My pal's childhood hometown, Houston TX is flooded like nobody's business.
"Peak"
Yes?

Welp, I'll probably be back later today. Not a day goes by when I don't encounter or re-encounter a word I want to look up.

>>25618195
That's more than peak, that's a summit

>>25618207
Aye. Hey, what terms do you use to indicate how stoned you are? Wondering whether they're any different in Midlands than here in the U.S.

>>25618214
Only one I can think of is "mud"

"I'm mud as fuck mate that's some good piff that lad"

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>>25618239
lol! Thanks, that brought a smile to my face. :)
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And from a tweet: "Reminder from Capitalism: If you are starving, but no employee is around to accept payment, all food MUST remain floating in fetid water."

I thought fetid meant putrescent, rotting, but wanted to look it up since that didn't seem right. Glad I did. Something putrescent is likely fetid, but the converse does not have to be true.

>>25615009
quixotic: it means like overly idealistic and prone to stoicism. i learned it from all quiet on the western front.

anagogical: it means something mundane which is subconsciously connected with and inspires strong feelings of love. i heard it in a song

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>>25618395
What was your opinion of "All Quiet on the Western Front"? Have not read it nor the classic, "Don Quixote", from which quixotic is derived. There was a book review on "Don Quixote" which introduced the word "ken" to me - meaning one's range of knowledge or sight.

Which song uses "anagogical"?

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Listening to an interview with Heather McGhee post-Charlottesville. She's talking about how the expectation WAS that the middle class would repudiate the white supremacist notions promoted by the Trump campaign.

http://www.demos.org/heather-c-mcghee

I feel dumb posting all these words - I swear I have at least a high school education and can understand most of these words in context, but I keep looking them up because I want the facility to be able to use them easily in my writing and conversation.

Bump for anons inclined to pick up a dictionary when encountering words they don't precisely know the definition to!

bring up my post

>>25618569
Ken just means can/know/gnosis but that's a weird use of it.

>>25621228
Noun versus verb usage. The word seems uncommon to me. Where did you first hear/learn it? Perhaps it's used more in Europe given origin...

Jiggery pokery

I'm gonna try to remember another word I really like but can't remember at the moment

>>25621551
Thanks! But where did you learn the phrase? The point of this thread is to get to know each other through daily discoveries of words by the conversations we have, stuff that we read, watch, listen to, etc. Much more fun than flipping through a dictionary or Word a Day app. :)

>>25621496
I believe it was more common in the north of england, possibly in scots etc. The most common usage would be in a stock phrase like '(not) beyond the ken of man.' it's also the root of 'canny' which again is more widely used only as uncanny. Not to be confused with cannae. Not to be confused with Hannibal's battle.

But idk no reason why it wouldn't have been used in the appalachians or wherever. In theory. Maybe.

More broadly tho I mean German for know is kennen or kenne or kenner or what have you. French connaitre. Latin cognoscere. Possibly even Russian ~znaio? Probs protoindoeuro in anycase

>>25621576
A lady said it on the news, something regarding politics, and I'm from california so I thought she made that shit up. Had to look it up to verify she wasn't just fucking with me.

>>25621679
That makes sense. Thanks, anon!

>>25621781
Thanks; that amused me. I can just see an anon doing a double-take. :)

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I actually knew the definition of cavalcade but found it unusually used today in reference to a string of phone calls rather than a traditional /formal procession of people:

"We start the show with a cavalcade of yucky calls about ..."

Optimistic bump!

>>25618569
all quiet on the western front is amazing

it was a bedhead song.

im in a hurry or i would post more idk if u still check this thread anyways

>>25623042
What did you like about it? The prose, narrative, characters?
I'm the OP, so I'll try to keep the thread up for any interested parties. Thanks for popping in!

Why does the emoji for "bump" look like a fist ready to give a hand job? I feel like the designers knew what they were doing and had a good laugh about it.

Bump although today is shaping up to be mundane. Not much time for play and entertainment.

Nudge

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Saw this on a food segment about making a cherry balsamic compote!

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Learned this while reading a book review on "Who Is Rich?":

"It’s a tempting setting for an affair, an even more tempting setting for a novel, and a perfect setting for a novel about how one shapes the story of one’s own affair. The milieu gets dryly funnier as Klam piles up the details..."

I passed on reading the book. Seems depressing.