tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post2529015313517574821..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Wordy WeekendTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-20699556765102297952016-01-12T08:04:14.829-06:002016-01-12T08:04:14.829-06:00mike ~ Have now read the full article by Joel Stei...mike ~ Have now read the full article by Joel Stein - thanks again - what a great piece!<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-72804330080176570202016-01-12T00:03:09.846-06:002016-01-12T00:03:09.846-06:00mike (again) ~ Thanks for the link - that's a...mike (again) ~ Thanks for the link - that's a l-o-n-g piece, I skimmed through it but will certainly read it properly tomorrow. Saw the name of James Inhofe - even he likes Bernie - on some level (dang!!)<br /><br />The calendar - yikes! Not for me - I sit opposite our illustrated calendar for meals and that'd give me indigestion for sure! ;-) Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-41935246525581499102016-01-11T20:25:46.920-06:002016-01-11T20:25:46.920-06:00"Men Who Bern" calendar is a link in the..."Men Who Bern" calendar is a link in the above Bloomberg article. You only have until January 15th to place your order!<br />http://www.menwhobern.com/mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-21183869723029905452016-01-11T20:22:44.837-06:002016-01-11T20:22:44.837-06:00A surprisingly supportive essay about Bernie from ...A surprisingly supportive essay about Bernie from Bloomberg Business:<br /><br />"Why Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Want Your Vote<br />On the road with a man so angry he scares Democrats, too."<br />http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-bernie-sanders-fundraising/mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-21809512511163558492016-01-10T21:34:57.675-06:002016-01-10T21:34:57.675-06:00Astrology the way it looks from Earth vs the way i...Astrology the way it looks from Earth vs the way it really is:<br /><br />http://www.malinc.se/math/trigonometry/geocentrismen.phpmike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-90025427573954525752016-01-10T11:15:46.650-06:002016-01-10T11:15:46.650-06:00mike (again) ~ Yes, I'd come across that one ...mike (again) ~ Yes, I'd come across that one myself while reading around. I don't recall whether it was on a British site, but that's quite likely. I expect some Brit journalist coined it.<br /><br />From Truthdig website yesterday I watched an hour long video of a British comedian & writer's rundown of 2015 - mainly from the British point of view, but US is mentioned sometimes, particularly in the later section. The narrator, Charlie Brooker is, by the way, the writer of a favourite of yours - "Black Mirror" (now on Netflix).<br />I got many chortles and a few LOLs from it.<br /><br />"The 2015 Wipe"<br /><br />http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_charlie_brooker_despairs_2015_a_year_of_fascistic_demagogues_20160105Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-36547429077411169192016-01-10T10:40:59.663-06:002016-01-10T10:40:59.663-06:00I happened on the word "noughties" on an...I happened on the word "noughties" on an astro-site last week:<br /><br />Definition of noughties in English:<br />plural noun<br />chiefly British<br />The decade from 2000 to 2009: [as modifier]: late-nineties/early-noughties girl groups<br />http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/noughties<br /><br />You might be very familiar with this word, Twilight, as it has a British origin, and it was a UK website that I encountered the word.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-29178709260370826692016-01-10T00:06:59.676-06:002016-01-10T00:06:59.676-06:00mike (again) ~
"Limerance" - I thought ...mike (again) ~<br /><br />"Limerance" - I thought he was that guy who played piano rather well?<br /><br />"Tyrotoxism" - Well - that's a word that's needed a lot in the USA - due to the kind of yukky synthetic cheeses they come up with here! Dang!! ;-)<br /><br />Powerball? Never heard of it. Must be a pronkish Texas thing?<br /><br />Happy New Moon to you too!<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br /><br />Bob - Hi there!<br /><br /> <br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-11293939732708092382016-01-09T23:39:20.597-06:002016-01-09T23:39:20.597-06:00Mike, I think The Donald could use every word in y...Mike, I think The Donald could use every word in your list in a single campaign speech. Maybe in a single sentence.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-59235892294056740022016-01-09T19:31:23.071-06:002016-01-09T19:31:23.071-06:00Happy New Moon...moments away...19* Capricorn! Di...Happy New Moon...moments away...19* Capricorn! Did you and anyjazz indulge in a Powerball ticket? I did...call me a pronk, but I couldn't resist a chance at 900 million dollars! Should there be no winner this evening, there will be so much excitement that the nation won't be able to focus on The Donald.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-75756665142058958052016-01-09T19:03:27.426-06:002016-01-09T19:03:27.426-06:00"20 Weird English Words"
http://listvers..."20 Weird English Words"<br />http://listverse.com/2007/09/22/20-weird-english-words/<br /><br />1. Erinaceous<br /><br />Like a hedgehog<br /><br />2. Lamprophony<br /><br />Loudness and clarity of voice<br /><br />3. Depone<br /><br />To testify under oath<br /><br />4. Finnimbrun<br /><br />A trinket or knick-knack<br /><br />5. floccinaucinihilipilification<br /><br />Estimation that something is valueless. Proper pronunciation based on Latin roots: flock?-nows?-n?k?l?-p?l?-f?k-ation.<br /><br />6. Inaniloquent<br /><br />Pertaining to idle talk<br /><br />7. Limerance<br /><br />An attempt at a scientific study into the nature of romantic love.<br /><br />8. Mesonoxian<br /><br />Pertaining to midnight<br /><br />9. Mungo<br /><br />A dumpster diver – one who extracts valuable things from trash<br />[or reclaimed wool]<br /><br />10. Nihilarian<br /><br />A person who deals with things lacking importance (pronounce the ‘h’ like a ‘k’).<br /><br />11. Nudiustertian<br /><br />The day before yesterday<br /><br />12. Phenakism<br /><br />Deception or trickery<br /><br />13. Pronk<br /><br />A weak or foolish person<br /><br />14. Pulveratricious<br /><br />Covered with dust<br /><br />15. Rastaquouere<br /><br />A social climber<br /><br />16. Scopperloit<br /><br />Rude or rough play<br /><br />17. Selcouth<br /><br />Unfamiliar, rare, strange, marvelous, wonderful. For example: The List Universe is such a selcouth website!<br /><br />18. Tyrotoxism<br /><br />To be poisoned by cheese<br /><br />19. Widdiful<br /><br />Someone who deserves to be hanged<br /><br />20. Zabernism<br /><br />The abuse of military power or authority.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-1140358606221032682016-01-09T18:54:34.538-06:002016-01-09T18:54:34.538-06:00I'm going to challenge "boobalang" i...I'm going to challenge "boobalang" in this game of Scrabble, Twilight. I think you're bluffing. You lose a turn...LOL.<br /><br />I did find a "person" named Boobalan Boobalang:<br />https://plus.google.com/109684633109239559602<br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeHQY7jEuRQp-a0Wfk3ZojA<br /><br />Urban Dictionary lists Clyde Framise as the creator of boobalong and Ching Me (April 13, 2011). Have you been corresponding with Clyde?<br /><br />I thought "duh" and "uh" were stand-ins for forgotten words...sometimes "err" or "uhm".mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-45662806887807973522016-01-09T13:56:50.484-06:002016-01-09T13:56:50.484-06:00mike ~ sigh...look-up time again: metasyntactic. ...mike ~ sigh...look-up time again: metasyntactic. <br />Right - got it! <br />Okay. <br />Well, that forage brought up another similar, though not exactly of the metasyntactic breed perhaps - I rather like this one:<br /><i> <b>Boobalang</b><br />Boobalang is a generic word that can stand in for any other noun in a sentence. It is commonly used to replace a word that has momentarily eluded one due to a failure of memory. It is, in many ways, a companion word to linkmy and serves the same purpose, to whit that of a metasyntactic variable. </i><br /><br />Failure of memory - done that more than a few times - a name or clever word escapes me more often than they used to these days. I now have a "one-size fits all" remedy! <br />:-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-51248367113759205252016-01-09T07:40:16.890-06:002016-01-09T07:40:16.890-06:00It's time for you to go on the Scrabble tourna...It's time for you to go on the Scrabble tournament circuit, Twilight! Knock 'em dead, girl. Use caution with "fnord", as I can't find it to be an officially sanctioned, dictionary inclusive, actual word...it may not hold-up to a challenge. The "Urban Dictionary provides a number of definitions, one being a metasyntactic variable along the lines of bazola, ztesch, foo, corge, grault, flarp, blarg, and wibble [ http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/metasyntactic+variable ]. I'll be on the look-out for these words, too.<br /><br />As for "LMNOP", it sounds like a fun read written by a logophile. I prefer to live in freedom and retain the ability to use full-on pangram sentences, should I choose.mikenoreply@blogger.com