ISWYDT
If you’re Welsh, that’s an acronym.
That deserves some kind of award! 
I want to visit Wales some day and see if I can get my tongue around the many double d’s
I should ask our language kid to look into acronyms and abbreviations in other languages. Nah. Don’t think I will. His head might explode.
Ouch!
O. M. G.
I need jalapeno fried chicken in my life. Naturally it’s already a thing…
That’s one of the easiest Welshisms. It’s just a heavy ‘f’ or light ‘v’ sound. At least as I remember from the Celtic mythology class I took fifty years ago.
There should be a word for wonderful things that you imagine, then discover that they already exist, but they fall into that sweet spot of existence when there is not yet porn of them.
That brings to mind another Welsh acronym, TWSS.
As far as Chicken goes the word would be: Nashville hot chicken.
(Or words, I guess)
Please, don’t discuss pronunciation on this board without using IPA.*
* That stands for “drink a hoppy beer and quit trying to make IPA work.” I don’t care how helpful it is, the masses are never going to learn it.
“The IPA, using a roundabout and [wait for the caustic political commentary…] voting for competent leaders in a democracy.”
“What are things the masses are never going to learn, Alex.”
Yeah. I soooo get that. I’m sure my most tepid support of his rationality will be cooled by something abysmal in the immediate future.
And that is a fair an honest evaluation. Our definitions of troll, while not exactly nebulous, have a lot of fudge factor built in. I think, again THINK that the reason motivations come into place in such discussions is that if someone is an argumentative poster that debates fiercely, it tends to slide as it appears to slip under the “making arguments to primarily elicit an emotional response.” So the poster in question doesn’t exactly get a pass (I do feel that far too often they slide past argumentative and straight into full on jerk), they’re riding the fuzzy line hard. But when (as they were called out on in that thread) for sealioning, as well as disregarding good faith efforts to debate, they absolutely earned and got a warning. Do it enough and… fuzzy line isn’t going to save them.
See! Talking About Trolls Again. Or, from now on TATA!
(wait, did I just troll our anacronym / abbreviation / initialism crowd? OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE, I’VE BECOME WHAT I DETEST!!!)
Excuse me, off to find some ashes and sackcloth!
Our language-obsessed friend is back at it with a thread on an obscure Irish word. Are people giving them a break on any expectation of non-jerkish interaction on the assumption that they are neuroatypical?
I just don’t see asking a bunch of questions on a single topic to be jerkish. Has there been other jerkish behavior?
I don’t mean that. Have you seen the response in that thread to the attempt to continue the conversation - why were you interested in this word?
They’re obviously trying to provoke a response.
I will second that. That thread was disgusting.
Or maybe it is just idle curiosity?