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RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

What's a word you haven't heard used in years?

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What's a word you haven't heard used in years?

RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    happy ;_;

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      Heh, I use it everyday

      “I wish I was happy…”

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      me_irl

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    There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.

    And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.

    Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven’t heard it since.

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      There’s a John Mulaney joke about this

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        Huh…I can’t find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like “quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected”?

        Found the podcast…

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          I’m fairly certain it’s in “New In Town”

    • CrunchyBoy@lemmy.world
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      As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.

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    • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
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      As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol

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    Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven’t heard it in decades by now.

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      Bro isn’t playing enough Fire Emblem.

    • Belgdore@lemm.ee
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      Ditto to frankincense

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        I’ve seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.

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    Disestablishmentarianism.

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      deleted by creator

      • CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world
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        Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.

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          Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

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        • samus12345@lemmy.world
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          Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!

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    Covfefe

    • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.world
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      I say this almost daily lol

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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        How?

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          deleted by creator

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        • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.world
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          Do you mean how I pronounce or why I say it? If the latter, just because it sounds funny to me and it kind of became a running gag.

          • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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            I meant how do you even pronounce that.

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              I’ve always said it like “cawv-fee-fee.”

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              I pronounce as if it were a Spanish word. lol

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    Affordable housing

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      So “affordablehousing” then? 😂

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        Looks German

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          We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar

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            Doesn’t that mean unfindable?

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              You are right. It’s a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.

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                Ah gotcha

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            Seems like there’s a word for everything in German!

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              There is. That word is “alles”.

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                For a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it’s the English one that’s smashing two existing words together.

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    Cowabunga and tubular!

    80s were a good time!

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      Gnarly, dude.

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      Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can’t help myself and say “totally tubular my dude!” Lol

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      Rad!

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        I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!

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          So I can take back “Porch Monkey”?

          https://youtu.be/7qc0akWRBQk

          /s

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      Bodacious!

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      I say cowabunga all the time…

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      Gnarly!

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    Truthiness

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      As a software developer, I actually use “truthy” and “falsy” pretty regularly for “the computer thinks this value is true/false”

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        Just remember that even though None is Falsy, an array of Nones is Truthy. Gets me every time. I fucking understand it logically (because the array itself exists) but damnit if I can make my lizard brain comprehend it while coding it.

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          because the array itself exists

          More specifically it’s because the array isn’t empty.

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            Yup you’re more right than I was. An empty array is still Falsy even though it exists. I accept the correction.

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      Strategery

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    Vituperative. It’s such a good word too.

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      Oh, that’s good. A new one for me!

      From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
      
        vituperative
            adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
                   remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
                   railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]
      
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        Isn’t that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.

        Also garrolous is a good word.

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            Actually I spelled it wrong, it’s garrulous. My bad!

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    Discombobulate

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    Information superhighway

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Cyberspace!

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      The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck highway. It’s a series of tubes.

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        Tubelor.

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    Surplus

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    Phat! As in cool. Haven’t heard that one in wellllll over a decade.

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    Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.

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      Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.

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      Maybe like embroidered dags?

      https://www.outfit4events.com/runtime/cache/images/redesignProductFull/mna-1065x.JPG

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        Nope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. It’s dag, yo.

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    Skedaddle

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      I shout this at the cat when she’s underfoot

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        Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.

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      I use this very regularly.

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      Skadoodle

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        Cheese it

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          It’s the fuzz!

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