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  1. #621
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    Methinks

    Argh! Is it even really a word?

  2. #622
    Quote Originally Posted by BandAlum83 View Post
    Methinks

    Argh! Is it even really a word?
    Methinks 'yes': https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/methinks

  3. #623
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    Quote Originally Posted by rsvman View Post
    "After" is not directly analogous, whereas "soften" is. Listen and glisten are other examples that are much more closely related to "often." Your attempt at focusing on diction will come off to many people as just a very careful mispronunciation. ;-)
    That probably depends on your definition of "many".

    I would imagine the people who

    A) Don't notice
    B) Notice but don't care
    C) Think pronouncing the 't' is correct

    is a larger group than those who take issue with the pronunciation.

    I can't help but feel like part of the emergence of pronouncing it that way has to do with the presence of "off'n" in regional dialect, with a need/desire to differentiate. My guess is this gradually becomes the dominant pronunciation (it may have already).

  4. #624
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reilly View Post
    Yeah, I knew that. But it’s archaic and affected and annoying as hell!

    Save it for the Renaissance Festival!

  5. #625
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    Quote Originally Posted by BandAlum83 View Post
    Yeah, I knew that. But it’s archaic and affected and annoying as hell!

    Save it for the Renaissance Festival!
    The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

    Or gentleman as the case may be.

  6. #626
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    My wife and I are watching season 3 of "Unforgotten" on PBS. It is a series about solving cold case murders and it is set in England. This has provided me with two words to add to the list of words I really like.

    1) Knackered. This word means "exhausted," "dog-tired," etc., and is commonly used in England. I never hear it in the U.S., although I am sure there are some people who use it.

    2) Hoovering. This is perhaps a slang term for vacuuming, derived from the famous company that has been producing vacuum cleaners for a long, long time. I'd never heard it before. I found it immediately amusing. This is a word I have already started using.
    "We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust

  7. #627
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    "Infrared-quadorfilater" hasn't become a word; yet, but when it ever does, I won't like it! TT

  8. #628
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    nonplussed

    ...meh

  9. #629
    Quote Originally Posted by CameronBlue View Post
    nonplussed
    I made a joke involving 'nonplussed' upthread (here). I remain nonplussed that this word is used so wrongly by so many.

    Merriam-Webster definition of 'nonplus' is "a state of bafflement or perplexity."
    Yet, because it is mistakenly used to mean the opposite, Merriam-Websters 'Recent Examples on the Web' section has examples antithetical to the actual meaning, lol

    The first example offered:
    Remaining nonplussed in the face of extreme bodily risk is all in a day’s work for Vikander, who has made a career out of shape-shifting seamlessly into radically strong female characters in thoughtful indie films and commercial blockbusters alike. — Harper's BAZAAR, "Alicia Vikander Leaps to New Heights—in Life and Fashion," 13 Mar. 2019
    To be fair, I've never met Alicia Vikander. So, maybe Harper's BAZAAR is accurately saying that she is confused/perplexed daily

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    Quote Originally Posted by bedeviled View Post
    I made a joke involving 'nonplussed' upthread (here). I remain nonplussed that this word is used so wrongly by so many.

    Merriam-Webster definition of 'nonplus' is "a state of bafflement or perplexity."
    Yet, because it is mistakenly used to mean the opposite, Merriam-Websters 'Recent Examples on the Web' section has examples antithetical to the actual meaning, lol

    The first example offered:
    To be fair, I've never met Alicia Vikander. So, maybe Harper's BAZAAR is accurately saying that she is confused/perplexed daily

    A director (regional stage production) once asked me what my motivation was to another character's first appearance on stage (yes (bad) directors do ask about motivation) and being a complete wiseass because I was the unquestioned star of the production, I answered "nonplussed." What followed was a titanic battle of pedantic snobbery, which is completely beside the point, but rather than the word's opposite, the director misinterpreted the word to mean "indifferent". You now frequently see "indifference" or synonyms of indifference such as "disinterested" listed as 2nd definitions for nonplus.

    Which brings me to my point: if you're a purist you may detest and resist the idea that language is organic or that its misuse in popular culture leads to connotations that bear no connection to a word's linguistic roots . I believe that this phenomenon is the beauty of language, to a point. On one point I'm with the purists, a word that is misused so frequently that it acquires an entirely new definition, is not an artistic application of language but simply a stupid one. There's nothing organic about stupidity.

    Indifference doesn't play on a proper stage, but apparently, it slays in Peoria.
    Last edited by CameronBlue; 05-03-2019 at 04:16 PM. Reason: It's obvious isn't it?

  11. #631
    I don't like "pretermit" b/c I had to look it up.

  12. #632
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    "Blockchain"

    And to a slightly lesser degree..."cryptocurrency".

  13. #633
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    Came across this word today, and thought it was sooooo appropriate for this forum:

    Paronomasia

    I am often afflicted with it myself: punning.

  14. #634
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    Heard the word "squalid" on the radio on the way to work today. I had forgotten about this amazing word. "Squalor" is nice, too, but its adjectival form is even more satisfying.
    "We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust

  15. #635
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    The adverbial "squalorly" is also an extremely pleasingly sounded word!

  16. #636
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    Quote Originally Posted by Acymetric View Post
    "Blockchain"

    And to a slightly lesser degree..."cryptocurrency".
    But....but...blockchain all the things!!!! 🤪🙄🤣🤑🤬

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    No one should ever say that they are waiting on "deliverables" from a vendor. Never never ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    No one should ever say that they are waiting on "deliverables" from a vendor. Never never ever.
    Are you objecting to the word, or just its misuse?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Acymetric View Post
    Are you objecting to the word, or just its misuse?
    Both. Deliverable is an adjective to me, not a noun. Ant it is Waaaaayyyyyyyy overused.

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    "Food desert." Stop.

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