Things I learned today: An ANECDOTARD is a teller of foolish or pointless anecdotes. The term ‘anecdotage’ dates back to the early 19th century. ‘Anecdotard’ itself appears shortly after that. For some, it refers only to old people doing this, but more often in recent times it can be applied to tedious/failed raconteurs of any age.
I discovered all that when the term came to my mind while reading a post complaining about people supplying anecdotes instead of data to prove points. For a brief moment I thought I was an original coiner of that term, but googling proved me wrong, having missed that mark by 200 years. Oh well, the term still only had 700 or so google hits.
Anyway, a search of the SDMB showed no previous use of the term and now I am vowing to use it regularly here and elsewhere.
I dunno. I’d expect someone to claim anecdotard somehow maligned the intellectually disabled, due to its similarity to retard.
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard anyone other than me say the words sanguine and behoove, both of which are pleasant to utter and express fine, relatively frequently applicable concepts.
It behooves me to sanguinely reply that I’ve used both words with some frequency over my lifetime. As in repeating the Motto of the National Uvula Society to a patient: “It’ll behoove ya to care for your uvula!” and my own observation regarding a patient in the ER once time: “I am sanguine I can keep him from exsanguinating”.
I like corpulent. I like skulduggery and skulduggerous. And recently someone posted the word higgledy-piggledy in a thread here, and that one caught my eye; great word!
The parents of a childhood friend of mine introduced me to this word, saying something like, “It would behoove you to take a jacket.” I’d only heard them say it and made an ass of myself telling people “It would be hoo of you to [this or that].”
