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Go die. (succinct and no real explanation needed)
A word either for twice a month or once every two months. (One of them will replace “bimonthly.”)
I love hot dogs. An elderly man loves his dying wife of 60 years. Sometimes I feel learning new meanings for that one word is a succinct answer to, ‘what is the meaning of life?’
Other times, I feel language is only useful if it transmits meaning so we need to figure this out.
I haven’t heard of a word to use for sending something with a drone. Maybe use the word drone as a verb. We will drone the pizza to you.
If there’s a word for something which is designed to solve a problem that doesn’t exist, then I don’t know it. And we really need a word, because these things are already all over the place and they’re proliferating. Those ridiculous shelves in refrigerators which consist of a row of circular holes that you’re supposed to place eggs in to keep them safe and stop them rolling about. You know, the eggs that come in an egg box? Yeah, those eggs. Or the key that you used to be able to buy that you attached to one end of a toothpaste tube , so that by turning the key you could squeeze the toothpaste out of the tube. Stone me, you can still get them.
Why isn’t there a word for this?
j
And PS, can we have a new and different word for meme, as in internet meme, so that I can have the original meaning of the word back?
j
(PS: yes I know it says that the idea predates him)
My first timeout-related double post! Go me!
j
I need one word that tells the bear or mountain lion not to try to eat me. “Socialism!” doesn’t work.
Similarly but not the same thing…tech that is supposed to be more advanced but actually makes things harder. Like…an electronic trashcan?? Hello? I could have just lifted the lid, or used the foot pedal thing but now I have to stand here and try and figure this thing out.
The word is “marketing”. People sweat but that wasn’t a problem till marketers convinced people that “body odor” (eww!) offends. Inventing problems is profitable. If something ain’t broken, break it and sell glue.
I know it’s not what you want, but to me a fad is something outside of the internet while a meme is something on the internet. Of course nowadays they’re linked. For example superhero movies are a fad probably because of the internet.
We need a word for somebody who likes something but doesn’t love it. Of course immediately you suggest the word “fan” but to me a fan is someone who loves something.
A new verb: to lobster. Usually used in the form to be lobstered.
Definition: to end up in a bad situation by a failure to recognize an extensive but near imperceptible worsening of you circumstances.
(Real) Example: I went out on the bike today; the weather forecast wasn’t great, but not so bad - heavy cloud and a very low chance of rain. As I set off I noticed the merest hint of moisture in the air - but nothing to worry about. At some point, about 15 miles in, it occurred to me that my gloves were getting wet and there was a steady dripping off my helmet. It was drizzling steadily, getting worse, and I was an hour from home. I had been properly lobstered.
j
We need a verb for the act of trying to tie your shoe while holding a dog on a leash that is distracted by a squirrel.
Eichhörnchenjagdhundleineschuhbinden.
Next!
j
I get what you’re at, but semimonthly means twice a month (literally “half-monthly”) whereas bimonthly means every two months (think bicycle, two wheels).
Yes, I do manage periodicals, why do you ask?
We need a new 1 syllable word to describe human females of all ages that doesn’t have any misogynistic undertones (like girl) and doesn’t sound antiquated (like gal).
Not a new one, but an antiquated one that I wish would become common. Hurple - to raise one shoulders to one’ ears in response to cold weather.
I watch too much QI. It also means to limp, and it rhymes with purple.
j