12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
“She liked the word “ineffable†because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words. And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.†- Lauren Oliver from “Liesl & Poâ€
New words enter our vocabularies sometimes by our own design but most times quite by chance through various forms of media, cultural slang, business buzzwords and the like. One day you’ve never heard the word then the next day there it is again ... and again ... until suddenly you’re using it as though you’ve known it all along. New becomes commonplace and old words sometimes fade away.
This article lists 12 words that are common today but caused consternation in some circles when first foisted upon the world by necessity or perhaps only by a creative thinker but for whatever the reason, they stuck and we use them today.
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted | Mental Floss
Are you a word purist or do you welcome slang and buzzwords into your vocabulary easily enough? Are there any new words or phrases used today that really bug you and that you'd like to see fall by the wayside? Any that you particularly enjoy using and wish you’d known all along because they’re so appropriate & expressive?
New words enter our vocabularies sometimes by our own design but most times quite by chance through various forms of media, cultural slang, business buzzwords and the like. One day you’ve never heard the word then the next day there it is again ... and again ... until suddenly you’re using it as though you’ve known it all along. New becomes commonplace and old words sometimes fade away.
This article lists 12 words that are common today but caused consternation in some circles when first foisted upon the world by necessity or perhaps only by a creative thinker but for whatever the reason, they stuck and we use them today.
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted | Mental Floss
Are you a word purist or do you welcome slang and buzzwords into your vocabulary easily enough? Are there any new words or phrases used today that really bug you and that you'd like to see fall by the wayside? Any that you particularly enjoy using and wish you’d known all along because they’re so appropriate & expressive?
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
tabby;1420619 wrote: “She liked the word “ineffable†because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words. And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.†- Lauren Oliver from “Liesl & Poâ€
New words enter our vocabularies sometimes by our own design but most times quite by chance through various forms of media, cultural slang, business buzzwords and the like. One day you’ve never heard the word then the next day there it is again ... and again ... until suddenly you’re using it as though you’ve known it all along. New becomes commonplace and old words sometimes fade away.
This article lists 12 words that are common today but caused consternation in some circles when first foisted upon the world by necessity or perhaps only by a creative thinker but for whatever the reason, they stuck and we use them today.
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted | Mental Floss
Are you a word purist or do you welcome slang and buzzwords into your vocabulary easily enough? Are there any new words or phrases used today that really bug you and that you'd like to see fall by the wayside? Any that you particularly enjoy using and wish you’d known all along because they’re so appropriate & expressive?
This might drive Spot crazy.
Effable, ineffable, yup there is a difference.
New words enter our vocabularies sometimes by our own design but most times quite by chance through various forms of media, cultural slang, business buzzwords and the like. One day you’ve never heard the word then the next day there it is again ... and again ... until suddenly you’re using it as though you’ve known it all along. New becomes commonplace and old words sometimes fade away.
This article lists 12 words that are common today but caused consternation in some circles when first foisted upon the world by necessity or perhaps only by a creative thinker but for whatever the reason, they stuck and we use them today.
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted | Mental Floss
Are you a word purist or do you welcome slang and buzzwords into your vocabulary easily enough? Are there any new words or phrases used today that really bug you and that you'd like to see fall by the wayside? Any that you particularly enjoy using and wish you’d known all along because they’re so appropriate & expressive?
This might drive Spot crazy.
Effable, ineffable, yup there is a difference.
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My Mother used to get quite tounge tied particually when exasperated.
I remember her once ordering her cat to stop ' scumpering' about.... what ever scumpering was but we all use It now.
Discombobulated Is a wonderful word especially In a discombobulated Kerrfuffle type way.
I remember her once ordering her cat to stop ' scumpering' about.... what ever scumpering was but we all use It now.
Discombobulated Is a wonderful word especially In a discombobulated Kerrfuffle type way.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. R.L. Binyon
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
Who knew donate wasn't a real word?:yh_glasse
I expressly forbid the use of any of my posts anywhere outside of FG (with the exception of the incredibly witty 'get a room already' )posted recently.
Folks who'd like to copy my intellectual work should expect to pay me for it.:-6
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tabby, you are so interesting! I love learning stuff like this, thanks!
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
They were very cranky back in the 1800s, weren't they?
"Nuculer" bugs the crap out of me. I wasn't even sure I was spelling it correctly, it grates on my eyes as well as my ears.
"Nuculer" bugs the crap out of me. I wasn't even sure I was spelling it correctly, it grates on my eyes as well as my ears.
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
SnoozeAgain;1420664 wrote: They were very cranky back in the 1800s, weren't they?
"Nuculer" bugs the crap out of me. I wasn't even sure I was spelling it correctly, it grates on my eyes as well as my ears.
No such word this side of the pond - we speak English like what she was meant to sound like, like!
"Nuculer" bugs the crap out of me. I wasn't even sure I was spelling it correctly, it grates on my eyes as well as my ears.
No such word this side of the pond - we speak English like what she was meant to sound like, like!
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
It was a Bushism (as in George W) and the lovely and intelligent Sarah Palin continues its use.
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ditto
The same
The word "ditto" is commonly used as a way of saying "me too", or "I agree".
'Ditto' comes from Latin, and means about 'as has been said before'.
The same
The word "ditto" is commonly used as a way of saying "me too", or "I agree".
'Ditto' comes from Latin, and means about 'as has been said before'.
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12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
Here are some modern words & phrases that recently made it into the dictionary. Some of them are unfamiliar to me and some of them I hear often these days. I'm a great sufferer of earworm, using its second usage ... all these years and I had no idea it had a name!
Meet the Dictionary's New Words: F-Bomb, Sexting, Bucket List - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
Meet the Dictionary's New Words: F-Bomb, Sexting, Bucket List - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
Here are 18 obsolete words that the author feels should still be in our vocabularies. I agree ... they're perfectly good words! My own laptop is guilty of resistentialism at times. I've never lunted although sometimes I jirble my coffee in the morning and who doesn't like a snoutfair?
18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style | Death and Taxes
18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style | Death and Taxes
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
7 Words that Came About from People Getting Them Wrong | Mental Floss
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
On a personal note I'd like to see everyone who uses the word 'gobsmacked' have to scrub their mouth out with a wire brush! Bit extreme but such a horrible word.
Originally Posted by spot
She is one fit bitch innit, that Immy
Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time
She is one fit bitch innit, that Immy
Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
Taking some examples from the past two hundred years is interesting. Reminds me of high school having to endure Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
For anyone interested there is a great BBC documentary called "The Adventure of English." There is the book by Melvyn Bragg, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
As much as I loved the BBC series on it, reading the book is a lot like keeping and interest in Leviticus.
BIRTH OF A LANGUAGE
For anyone interested there is a great BBC documentary called "The Adventure of English." There is the book by Melvyn Bragg, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
As much as I loved the BBC series on it, reading the book is a lot like keeping and interest in Leviticus.
BIRTH OF A LANGUAGE
What happened to Kamala Harris' campaign?
She had the black vote all locked up.
She had the black vote all locked up.
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
It looks interesting, TD, thanks for the tip-off!
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
As you wend you way through the day, I hope no one runs roughshod over you but if they do, try not to take umbrage!
12 Old Words that Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms | Mental Floss
12 Old Words that Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms | Mental Floss
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Imladris;1430191 wrote: On a personal note I'd like to see everyone who uses the word 'gobsmacked' have to scrub their mouth out with a wire brush! Bit extreme but such a horrible word.
I use that word all the time whilst expressing a state of physical and mental shock.
A wire brush you say?
Well I'm GOBSMACKED
I use that word all the time whilst expressing a state of physical and mental shock.
A wire brush you say?
Well I'm GOBSMACKED
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
12 Lonely Negative Words ~~~~~> 12 Lonely Negative Words | Mental Floss
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
Yup thats what I thought it meant.
4. INEFFABLE
(Via French from Latin in- ‘not’ + effÄri ‘to utter’)
Ineffable—something "that cannot be expressed or described in language"—can breathe a lonely wordless sigh. Its partner doesn’t come around much any more. Effable once meant "sounds or letters, etc. that can be pronounced." It is used only rarely to mean "that which can be, or may lawfully be, expressed or described in words," or as a snickery double entendre:
She: Are you dumping me? What went wrong?
He: I can’t explain. It’s ineffable.
She: Are you saying I’m not f—able?
Read the full text here: 12 Lonely Negative Words | Mental Floss
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4. INEFFABLE
(Via French from Latin in- ‘not’ + effÄri ‘to utter’)
Ineffable—something "that cannot be expressed or described in language"—can breathe a lonely wordless sigh. Its partner doesn’t come around much any more. Effable once meant "sounds or letters, etc. that can be pronounced." It is used only rarely to mean "that which can be, or may lawfully be, expressed or described in words," or as a snickery double entendre:
She: Are you dumping me? What went wrong?
He: I can’t explain. It’s ineffable.
She: Are you saying I’m not f—able?
Read the full text here: 12 Lonely Negative Words | Mental Floss
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YZGI;1441194 wrote: Yup thats what I thought it meant.
Be careful how you use it then! :yh_rotfl
Be careful how you use it then! :yh_rotfl
12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted
They don't include any explanations for the eventual turnarounds in meaning but it's still interesting to see the evolution of language. It's ever fluid!
27 Words That Used To Mean Something Totally Different
27 Words That Used To Mean Something Totally Different