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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: buddha on March 09, 2005, 05:29:00 pm

Title: Word of the Day
Post by: buddha on March 09, 2005, 05:29:00 pm

In view of the fact that many people here are not native speakers, I thought we could use a word of the day post.  Here\'s one that has come up recently in the forums:

DE-COR-UM:
1. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety: ?In the Ireland of the 1940\'s... the stolidity of a long, empty, grave face was thought to be the height of decorum and profundity? (John McGahern).

2. decorums The conventions or requirements of polite behavior: the formalities and decorums of a military funeral.

3. The appropriateness of an element of an artistic or literary work, such as style or tone, to its particular circumstance or to the composition as a whole.

For instance, ad hominem attacks (like calling someone by name and then labeling them \"stupid\") lack decorum.

What do you think should be next, \"hubris\" or the phrase \"constructive criticism\" ?

Title: Word of the day (part 2)
Post by: RussianVodka on March 09, 2005, 08:56:03 pm

LOH
1. A Russian word that compares a person to animal excriments.
2. Used in any case. It does\'nt matter who you\'re speaking to, and about what, the word is always \"in context\".

Exampl: Buddha loh iz za svoih yobanih pisem.
Translation: Please don\'t post useless threads any more.


Edit: Damn... Reading a forum on steampowered.com and posting on PS sure leads to some anger.

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Post by: Brencetti on March 09, 2005, 09:32:37 pm

DIBIL, DEGENERAT

Almost the same that ??? (LOH)

(??? ????????)

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Post by: Moogie on March 09, 2005, 09:39:08 pm

This is supposed to be English word-of-the-day...

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Post by: Harkin on March 10, 2005, 01:39:13 am

GWARH! (gwar)

its means.. well GWARH!

it can come up in any conversation such as:

GWARH! That\'s a nice car!
Dude, I had the best pizza last night, it was so GWARH!

it is mainly used as a warcry(mine):
GWARH! Death to the unbelievers! My sword shall perish thee!

and there GWARH! a word you can now call your own...

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Post by: Tharizdun on March 10, 2005, 01:39:58 am

pauldron

\\Paul\"dron\\, n. [See Powldron.] (Mil. Antiq.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.


buddha, I detect a subtle barb hidden in the otherwise innocuous meaning of your post.

In a similar vein I would like to present \"How to win any argument on the Internet\"

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2715

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Post by: buddha on March 10, 2005, 02:18:57 am

Tharizdun, indeed there was.

I learned to read and write English (my mother tongue) by interacting with actual humans.  Thus, I have a sense of courtesy.  It would be nice to give some of the people here the opportunity to act as if  they were dealing with real people.  Perhaps a novel experience given their manners. For that, they will need some decorum (see above).

I had considered just shouting F U HITLER!  (thanks for the link.  By the way, thanks is sometimes spelled without and \"x\", if you can believe that!).

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Post by: Ashamn on March 10, 2005, 09:10:10 am

Otorrinolaringologista :)

Its one of teh most bigest words in portuguese, but no thge bigest (the bigest has 48 leters).
An Otorrinolaringologista is kind of a doctor that see patiences eyes (Otorrino) and throats (laringologista).

I wanna see u get a bigger word that this one

:D

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Post by: Jazeera on March 10, 2005, 10:32:24 am

josh  

(transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun)
[josh]

transitive verb

1. to tease (someone) in a friendly way: \"I am quite convinced that Craig lives and breathes just to josh me.\"

intransitive verb

2. to joke or be silly with somebody; banter

noun

3. a teasing remark

additional noun form: josher
adverb form: joshingly

Simple as that ;)

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Post by: Phinehas on March 10, 2005, 08:59:43 pm

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Originally posted by RussianVodka
Exampl: Buddha loh iz za svoih yobanih pisem.
Translation: Please don\'t post useless threads any more.

Sam takoy.
Translation: Please refrain from putting others down in languages that they don\'t comprehend.

Here\'s a favorite of mine:

Oxymoron

Definition: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

Phinehas\' simplified definition: A contradiction in terms.

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Post by: Under the moon on March 11, 2005, 12:55:51 am

Sesquipedalianism.  8o

The word sesquipedalianism means \"the practice of using words one and a half feet long\".

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Post by: davo on March 11, 2005, 02:34:18 am

sorry, i posted that link in a nother thread, but the threads where exatcly the same.

funny true and i use them everyday, some i thought where proper words.

some auzzie words

http://www.gigglepotz.com/auslang.htm

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Post by: Harkin on March 11, 2005, 12:11:04 pm

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)

 Main Entry: pneu?mo?no?ul?tra?mi?cro?scop?ic?sil?i?co?vol?ca?no?co?ni?o?sis
Pronunciation: \'n(y)?-m&-(\")nO-\"&l-tr&-\"mI-kr&-\'sk?p-ik-\'sil-i-(\")kO-v?l-\'kA-nO-\"kO-nE-\'O-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural pneu?mo?no?ul?tra?mi?cro?scop?ic?sil?i?co?vol?ca?no?co?ni?o?ses /-\"sEz/
: a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust

Main Entry:   pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Part of Speech:    noun
Definition:     supposedly the longest word in a dictionary, an artificial word said to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust

..ehehe...

ok in german class we learned the longest german word... was super long... longer than any english word, and it was the name of some group of guys... i dont remember what for exactly :\\

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Post by: elscouta on March 11, 2005, 07:34:18 pm

Compulsion.

It\'s not a matter of the sense, but i plain like the pronunciation of this word. Really. Mutter it and feel the pleasure.
I think its sense is something around the act of browsing data.

Harkin: according to my german teacher, you can create a word as long as you want (especially with numbers) by fusioning the name and its complement. The most known longish word is something with a ship captain iirc.

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Post by: leji on March 11, 2005, 09:47:49 pm

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Originally posted by Ashamn
Otorrinolaringologista :)

Its one of teh most bigest words in portuguese, but no thge bigest (the bigest has 48 leters).
An Otorrinolaringologista is kind of a doctor that see patiences eyes (Otorrino) and throats (laringologista).

err not sure how it is in portuguese but as seems latin Otorrino refers to ears, nose, and the tube that you have between them and that I dont know the name... anyone knows ?

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Post by: Tharizdun on March 12, 2005, 12:42:43 am

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Originally posted by leji
err not sure how it is in portuguese but as seems latin Otorrino refers to ears, nose, and the tube that you have between them and that I dont know the name... anyone knows ?

That would be the eustachian tube.
 
mangonel

man?go?nel  
n:    A military engine used during the Middle Ages for hurling stones and other missiles.

n : medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, onager, trebuchet, trebucket]

(http://www.european-medieval-castles-design.com/images/Mangonel.jpg)