I don’t want to name names, but quite a few individuals on these boards who wish to describe a person who works with or beside them describe instead a person doing some ungodly thing to a poor, defenseless bovine. Cow tipping is bad enough, but orking those poor critters is just going too far. Almost as cruel as goat-felching, if ya ask me.
I know I’ve had co-workers who misplaced their hyphens, too, and I did my best to straighten them out. Gently. By example only.
The proper word is spelled either co-worker or coworker (note the missing hyphen). Pleeze! I dont wanna se anymore mispeling!
It’s intentional. One of the board in-jokes. I think originally someone, much like you, got sick of people who misspe- mispe- didn’t spell the word “co-worker” right- and then cow-orker became the official Straight Dope spelling of the word somehow. Really, on a board like this, you didn’t think that many people were screwing up repeatedly, did you?
One of the regulars can probably fill in names, places, and details, but I’m pretty sure them’s the basics.
Ahh, so the foot’s on the other hand now, is it? That whooshing sound was me, mayhap?
Nevertheless, I maintain the OP seems legit. I’ve been wrong before, though- is there a word for being whooshed, backing up and going through the wind tunnel again?
All right, already! Color me embar-assed. I really did think there were a number of Dopers who thought that was the correct spelling. But it wasn’t a real grammar Nazi rant. Didn’t you notice the (ahem!) jokes in there? And the smiley?
County, after our last tangle I’m surprised you didn’t take a bigger swing at me. Does this mean we can still be friends, hmmmmm?
I didn’t really mean to whoosh anybody. I was just bored.
Mods, you can sew this thread up if you want. It’s not going to break any records anyway (unless it’s one of the shortest). I shall move on to greener pastures, and, hopefully not greener jokes.
I may owe everybody an apology. I suspect it might have been me that caused the whole mess. A couple of years ago, when I went by beeblebrox*, I posted into a thread in which somebody was bitching about their job. They consistently used the term “coworkers” and I jokingly asked if anybody else read that word as “cow orkers”. Jokes about how exactly one would go about orking a cow followed, and I was amused.
But I had wrought by that small joke.
Mind you, I’m not sure that it was me that introduced the term into the local zeitguist, but I know that my use of it was my own creation, and I hadn’t heard it before. It’s certainly possible that the term originated independantly from somewhere, and I just happened to think of the same thing. But I wonder…
I’m sick of “Og” too, and I remember where that originated. (A typo of “God” by the infamous lolo.) I never use either term, and am ashamed to think that I may have caused a similar verbal infliction on the board.
*I used to be called Beeblebrox, but A Monkey With A Gun is not a sock. The honorable TubaDiva granted me a name change.
You know, if I had actually read the thread instead of posting half drunk on a late Saturday night, I would have realized something I already knew. I’m an idiot.
Good to know that I wasn’t the source of it, though.
