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by: Lloyd Worthnone, hobby farmer
Re: for all those who say "it shouldn't be this difficult". apparently it is.
A previous vehicle I owned would tell me to take the turn for "Go Dall Ming". (Godalming ["goddlming"])
Of course, English pronunciation of names is often obtuse (apocryphally, to confuse foreign spies into giving themselves away), for example:
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Mainwaring ("mannering")
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Cholmondeley ("chumley")
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Featheringstonehaugh ("fanshaw")
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Mousehole ("mowzle" [ow as in cow, not as in tow])
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Worcester ("wooster")
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Towcester ("toaster")
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Leicester ("lester" [not lie-cester])
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Loughborough ("luffburraw" [roughly])
among many others.
Re: for all those who say "it shouldn't be this difficult". apparently it is.
Having grown up in East Anglia with regular family holidays on the coast, the journey often passed by such fantastic places as:
Happisburgh ("Hayesborough")
Postwick ("Pozzick")
and Wymondham ("Windam").
My better half has english as a second language, but is very much fluent. As far as they're concerned, brits seem to just make up the words and how they're said as we go along. Probably not untrue.
Also further away is Bicester ("Bisster").
Of course, there's the somewhat old joke about the american tourist calling Loughborough "Loogabarooga"
Colloquialisms rarely announce themselves; they slip into sentences wearing work boots and faded jackets, and are already comfortably broken in.
Writers use them because they sound human, readers accept them because they feel familiar, but familiarity, as the expression goes, comes with a cost. Some phrases have been used so much that they have been rubbed as smooth as the Blarney Stone from overuse, drained of texture by repetition and reduced to verbal placeholders.
Language doesn't fail when people repeat things; it fails when people stop thinking about it.
What follows isn't a glossary or something intended for display; it's simply a working map of expressions that came from real places, by honest labor, real danger, and habits. Some deserve a rest, while others keep earning their keep. A few belong to a specific region or generation and lose force when lifted out of context.
Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes.
“A calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool for when we need a boost in performance.”
If you’re human, you’ve probably hollered a curse word or two (or three) when barking your shin on a table edge or hitting your thumb with a hammer. Perhaps you’ve noticed that this seems to lessen your pain. There’s a growing body of scientific evidence that this is indeed the case. The technical term is the “hypoalgesic effect of swearing.” Cursing can also improve physical strength and endurance, according to a new paper published in the journal American Psychologist.
As previously reported, co-author Richard Stephens, a psychologist at Keele, became interested in studying the potential benefits of profanity after noting his wife’s “unsavory language” while giving birth and wondered if profanity really could help alleviate pain. “Swearing is such a common response to pain. There has to be an underlying reason why we do it,” Stephens told Scientific American after publishing a 2009 study that was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Peace Prize. //
The team followed up with a 2011 study showing that the pain-relief effect works best for subjects who typically don’t swear that often, perhaps because they attach a higher emotional value to swears. They also found that subjects’ heart rates increased when they swore. But it might not be the only underlying mechanism. Other researchers have pointed out that profanity might be distracting, thereby taking one’s mind off the pain rather than serving as an actual analgesic. //
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<psst> "Hey, buddy."
"Yeah?"
"You got a game coming up, yeah?"
"Yeah."
"Need a boost? I got some curse words guaranteed to boost your performance."
"Oh, uh...they check for that now. #!$@, $#!@, and even *&!%!! they test for."
"Yeah, yeah, but I got &!$#!!! and !!^%@$, virtually undetectable. You memorize these, pass the cursing check, and I guarantee you'll have the #!$@ing edge when you need it!" //
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They need to study overuse versus occasional use. I've always thought a well placed swear word is far more effective than rampant overuse. I was recently waiting for a drink at a bar and some bro was literally using f*** every other word. It was exhausting trying to filter his speech to understand what he was trying to say.
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Look up the adjective biweekly in this dictionary and you will see it defined as "occurring every two weeks" AND as "occurring twice a week." Similarly, the adjective bimonthly is defined as "occurring every two months" AND as "occurring twice a month."
For this, we are sorry. But we don't mean "sorry" in the sense that we feel penitence; we are not to blame. We mean "sorry" in the sense that we feel a kind of sorrow aroused by circumstances beyond our control or power to repair. //
One such case, sort of, is very similar to the cases at hand: the language offers us biannual for "twice a year" and biennial for "every two years." This is useful and elegant, but, alas, also frequently botched, with biannual so frequently used to mean "every two years" that we've had to enter that meaning in our dictionaries. But here another solution is readily available: skip biannual altogether and use in its place the common semiannual.
Ah, semi-! Just as a semicircle cuts a circle in half, so too does the prefix semi- semantically cut what it is affixed to in half: semiweekly means unambiguously two times per week; semimonthly means two times per month; semiannual means two times per year.
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He's right, of course
The importance of using the active voice cannot be emphasized enough.
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Re: He's right, of course
It appears my idea was stolen by you.
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Bill Gray
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I suspect about 50% of us came here to make that post. I first came across it from a list of 'fumblerules', I think collected by William Safire circa 1980, that included :
Don't use no double negatives.
Sentences should a verb.
One will never have used the future perfect in one's entire life.
Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read and figure out.
I've told you a thousand times : avoid hyperbole.
(plus quite a bit more not currently coming to mind) //
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rafff
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"I have searched for a word that refers to itself."
In a logic text book I once read the word is "homologous". "Heterologous" denotes a word that does not refer to itself. Clearly, there are no other possibilities.
"Short" is a short word, and so is homologous; "long" is not a long word and so is heterologous. But what about "Heterologous" itself? If "heterologous" is heterologous then it does not refer to itself and so must be homologous. But if it is homologous then it does refer to itself and so is heterologous.
Benegesserict CumbersomberbatchSilver badge
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There's a Dr Gödel here who would like to have a word with you. //
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