BS: new words / usage

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Jos
Date: 16 Nov 20 - 07:47 AM

I would have thought a "sortician" was the person who did the sorting and selecting, maybe with the person selected being a "sortee".

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Nov 20 - 07:44 AM

I came across one today - sortician - a person who has been randomly selected

as in sortician assembly - heard on a BBC radio prog - the TED radio hour

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Jos
Date: 15 Nov 20 - 11:13 AM

The book shelves in charity shops are often full of books from the 1970s with covers in shades of brown, cream and orange, and titles like "Creative Crafts", "Creative Crochet", "Creative Christmas Decorations", "Creative Cookery" and so on.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 15 Nov 20 - 10:44 AM

"creative" - as a person who is involved in creative endeavours. I would have trouble describing myself or anyone else as "a creative", but no doubt I'm hopelessly behind the times ....

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 06:11 PM

robomatic: It was much discussed in 1954, to my recollection.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 04:13 PM

One thing that drove me crazy but I'm becoming master of my domain: The use of the phrase "Democrat Party" instead of "Democratic Party". I believe this was begun plus or minus ten years ago purposely to offend and insult. I used to notice this the way you notice that someone has peed on a downtown wall during the night. Now I just try to develop a mental image of the speaker as a MAGA hat wearing creep. But I think it has crept into the non-partisan blogosphere. I got into an argument over the issue once in a Starbucks....

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Jos
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 04:04 PM

When did people start saying "So fun" instead of "Such fun" or "So much fun"?

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 04:33 AM

Those darn Zoomers!

Usually I'm irritated by people who are irritated by language, but I'll have to be irritated with myself for being irritated by one recent word/phrase:

"no kapp"

It means "I'm telling the truth / being sincere."

Now, HOW it comes to mean that is the thing that bugs me so much that I refuse to (re)investigate and explain it. Just know that it's mad "sus" , not at all "lit" and sketch "af."

"Sorry not sorry" for being "extra," bruh.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 04:53 PM

Now I know ... ! Much appreciated, though - now I know what all those young whippersnappers have been mocking me about ......

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 04:42 PM

>Uh, Gibb - that wasn't a very helpful comment ... would you care to elaborate?

"Simp" is a derogatory term you call someone (typically a male) who you think inappropriately, obsessively, PATHETICALLY ...supports, sucks up to, fawns over, white-knights ... someone (typically a female).

What that someone is doing can also be called "to simp" (noun changed to verb). The object of the simp's attention is often assumed to be looking for attention -- e.g. a female posting a photo of her butt or being overly cutesy -- and the simp is considered especially pathetic for falling into the trap of giving it. Can be used ironically (e.g. call yourself a simp) and metaphorically (e.g. die hard Trump supporters as simps for Trump).

I'd guess it's related to sympathetic, not simpleton.

That sounds so silly to define in a formal way, and now you know why I didn't feel like doing it.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: robomatic
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 03:30 PM

I've found myself using the term "true that". As a term of agreement. I wonder if my unconscious is trying to be cool. I don't think it's working.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 03:10 PM

Uh, Gibb - that wasn't a very helpful comment ... would you care to elaborate?

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 02:20 PM

topdressing ,i always thought it was a gardening term

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 02:11 PM

Just heard on on a satirical BBC radio prog.-- Topdressing - just wearing presentable cloths on the visible parts on Zoom.

Come to think of it - dogfooding should have been obvious to me!
More than 30 years ago a salesman told me that Dogfood salesmen (we didn't have persons in those days), they were trained to open a can of dogfood in front of their customers and eat some. To prove how wholesome it was. These were premier brands that used horsemeat. 'Tis indeed a wonder they were not called chevaliers!

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 09:30 AM

I thought simp was simpleton.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 01:19 AM

That's not what "simp" means, ya boomers!

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Nov 20 - 04:28 AM

isn't it a gift to be simple

Only if you are "Lord of the Dance"

(reference Shaker hymn & Sydney Carter lyrics)

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 11:13 AM

Oh.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 12:44 PM

As I understand it, it IS baby talk - that's supposed to be funny.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: leeneia
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 11:43 AM

Even worse, "my bad." Sounds like babytalk.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 11:33 AM

Gift should be a noun. Ask should be a verb.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: DaveRo
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 04:14 AM

Here in the UK - and maybe in the US too - 'gift' has a legal meaning. I'd only heard the verb 'to gift' used in that sense, for example the sum of money you can gift to your children each year so that it does not incur inheritance tax at your death.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Jos
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 04:07 AM

I just looked up "Seineld" and apparently it's an American sitcom.
That explains why it has completely passed me by.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: DaveRo
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 03:32 AM

verb "to gift":

"Since the 1990s the word has surged in popularity, perhaps in part because of a well-known Seinfeld episode concerning “regifting” and “degifting.” according to Merriam Webster.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Jos
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 02:40 AM

When did "gifted" start to mean given away instead of talented?

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: robomatic
Date: 08 Nov 20 - 10:21 PM

"grok" was a word used by the man who'd been raised on Mars. I'm not going back to Heinlein to find out if the word was a Martian word. It meant to comprehend far more deeply than normal use of English words (otherwise we'd use those normal words). One of the things the Martian lad wanted to understand was humor.

The book came out in the 60s. I've used the word on occasion, but not occasionally.

I thought I invented a word while dog walking (and I mean really walking a real dog) three days ago. The words was "tentativity" referring to the habit of being tentative or talking in that manner. I took credit for inventing it, but on the BBC website I saw the word: "incentivity" so I reckon probably my word is not 'my' word.

My word.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 08 Nov 20 - 05:52 AM

Winkie wankie wokies!!!

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mo the caller
Date: 08 Nov 20 - 05:45 AM

Gay had other meanings as well as happy even before the 60s.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mo the caller
Date: 08 Nov 20 - 05:38 AM

Good thread.
"From: Mrrzy - PM
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 12:00 PM

...I didn't know pride *only* referred to that. I felt all curmudgeony the way I am sure people did about gay not meaning happy any more."

I am beginning to feel the same way about the use of the rainbow - though I can see the logic as representing a spectrum.
I remember when 'gay' started being used that way - I had a friend called Gay, doubt if you'd abbreviate it like that now

"From: meself - PM
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 12:44 PM

"grock" - seems to mean "understand"
That one probably comes from a Heinlien SF novel about a Martian. I think it was used in that to mean a deep understanding and empathy with someone, though the Martian had difficulty explaining it.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Nov 20 - 05:32 AM

Just have been you g for at least 4 years but I only came across it yesterday

Trumpanzee

:-D

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Thompson
Date: 08 Nov 20 - 04:43 AM

Grok meams more than understand. It means to share understanding with something or someone at a deep level, so that it becomes part of you.
I'm a bit hazy on the current crop of woke and stan and terf and so on, so just stand quietly back and let them waft by until they join the discourse in a deep enough way that I can understand them. Doubt I'll ever grok them, though.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 07 Nov 20 - 08:05 PM

"relatable"

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Nov 20 - 04:34 PM

'Woke', coming from 'awakened', makes sense. 'Grok' is a more-than-usually primitive caveman in the BC cartoon, and I think that is a good use for a word that sounds like that.

My mother used 'simp' to refer to a weak, cringing woman. I think it came from 'simper.'

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Lighter
Date: 07 Nov 20 - 08:04 AM

"Simp" (from "simpleton") was popular in America in the '20s and '30s but never went away completely. I guess it's making a comeback.

"Grok," from Heinlein's 1961 novel, had something of a vogue in the flower-child '60s, and likewise has never gone away.

"Woke," by the way, now means "politically awakened or enlightened to matters like racism, inequality, oppression, etc."

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 20 - 07:13 AM

defund was suppose to mean reform and it was a disaster for democrats to repeat the phrase defund police.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 11:35 PM

Hack.

Since when did a simple 'handy hint' become a 'hack'?

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 09:39 PM

Stranger in a Strange Land? That goes 'way back - but 'grok' seems to have become (somewhat) popular only fairly recently ... no doubt there's a reason .....

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 06:07 PM

Grok. No C. To comprehend fully. Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 02:20 PM

trump means to fart, or let off wind, so have we been watxhing a fart in a circus

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 02:15 PM

Oh. Boy, do I feel like a simp now ... !

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 02:14 PM

Simp is short for superintelligent chimp. I think it was from Isaac Asimov.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: meself
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 12:44 PM

"grock" - seems to mean "understand"

"simp" - seems to mean "simpleton" - how it suddenly became a favoured internet insult, after "simpleton" had dropped out of common parlance, I don't know - besides, isn't it a gift to be simple?

You really have to stay on your toes if you want to keep up with the in-crowd on the 'net.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 12:00 PM

I signed up for some homecoming things online at my undergrad institution, including the opening night's Tufts Pride thing which I thought would be about being proud of Tufts. But noooooo. Pride *at* Tufts. Gay pride. It was an LGBTQ thing but I didn't know pride *only* referred to that. I felt all curmudgeony the way I am sure people did about gay not meaning happy any more.
The fact that I don't think you should claim pride in things you did not *accomplish* is an aside.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 11:28 AM

leeneia, that reminds me of 'manspreading', when a chap sits on a train with his legs wide apart, and his knees intruding on the space next to him.
I think texting has given rise to some quite funny words. 'Totes' for example (totally) and 'soz' (sorry). My nieces keep me a little more up-to-date with these new usages.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 11:00 AM

Its clear to see throughout history that
mankind loves the lie.
Warlords, religion and politicians
all use the childs cry
to get what they want although they're not hurt
for food or love denied.

We lie to ourself with truth on the shelf
for war, love and gain.
The lie is the path for the psychopath
or a King to reign.
Belief is a knife that can stab your heart.
So take care if you wish to remain.

Trump is in a different league
he cannot say defeat
Instead he says a different phrase
and calls it winning fatigue

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 10:01 AM

Mansplaining.

I was posting a recipe for pork roast here, and I said that I like to microwave the meat on low power to kill germs and warm it up. A male Mudcatter came on and told me that cooking the meat would kill germs.

As if after 50 years of cooking and reading about cooking I wouldn't know that. That's mansplaining.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 09:55 AM

I recently came across "twote", which means "wrote it on Twitter." I like it.

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 06:39 AM

theivery, means behaving like a spoiled child

Subject: RE: BS: new words / usage
From: DaveRo
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 03:06 AM

It's normally applied to new software. The developers show confidence in their new product by actually using it - "eating their own dogfood". Often their management tells them to - and not use (or be seen to use) a competitor's product.

I first heard it years ago when Mozilla employees - Mozilla having been created out of Netscape - declared that their new browser, which was just called 'Mozilla' in those days, was good enough for 'dogfooding'.

An infelicitous word IMO. The must be a better one.

Subject: BS: new words / usage
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Nov 20 - 06:53 PM

OK - I haven't bothered to find out what woke currently means - it won't next year anyway.
BUT
I came across a word that was used in connection with the Tesla truck. They are using them to deliver cars & transport between their Almeda County and Nevada factories. Using their own product as in-house testing & design shakedown.

That process was described as dogfooding

Any other new word/usages I should "get my teeth into"?