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05 Jul 18 - 04:58 PM (#3935565) Subject: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: wysiwyg Misheard today: "Awkwardtunity" Heard years ago (soften the R with a southern accent): "Horrornoma" Is there any doubt what these mean? Your turn! ?S? |
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05 Jul 18 - 05:13 PM (#3935568) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf Argh. Nonononono! This is the sort of lazy, modern idiomatic drivel that I loathe. Sorry, wysi, but "cupset" instead of cup upset & all that jazz just... Argh. Nonononono! It can be difficult enough getting your point across as it is. The last thing we need is more portmanteau words when half the world seems not to understand 3/4 of their native language (whether it be English or another). |
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05 Jul 18 - 05:18 PM (#3935571) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou I prefer malapropisms. One of my dear friends was always coming out with strangely garbled expressions. She once announced to all of us ladies at the bingo table that her husband was fitting a new dildo rail in their bedroom. We all looked down and tried to compose ourselves. |
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05 Jul 18 - 05:32 PM (#3935575) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jon Freeman strangely garbled expressions Peter/dad can be prone to wrong words. After his stroke and when I visited, he told me he felt quite refrigerated. I believe his worse was saying in front of staff and customers there that the genitals on toast were quite excellent at a place in Weybourne. But, that is the effects of an illness. Things vary, ranging from rattling off a Guardian Quick or making good progress with Everyman to (usually brought on by stress or tiredness) gobbledygook. |
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05 Jul 18 - 05:38 PM (#3935577) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Steve Shaw I'll consider this matter more closely during my upcoming staycation. In the meantime I'll enjoy a bit of peace and quietnessitudinousness. |
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05 Jul 18 - 05:50 PM (#3935581) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf We all looked down and tried to compose ourselves. Thank goodness Beethoven is dead! Can you imagine what he would have come up with? (It probably would have started "Dah-dah-dah duuum….") |
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05 Jul 18 - 05:52 PM (#3935582) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Stilly River Sage At least Raedwulf knew those are called portmanteau words. As words for other words go, that's a good one. :) |
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05 Jul 18 - 08:46 PM (#3935601) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Steve Shaw Beethoven is not dead and will never die. |
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05 Jul 18 - 08:57 PM (#3935602) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf He's not writing anything new these days, Steve, nor rolling over... ;-) |
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05 Jul 18 - 09:32 PM (#3935605) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: frogprince Beethoven may not even be de-composing anymore. |
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06 Jul 18 - 06:48 AM (#3935665) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Donuel What work by Beethoven does Steve purr/form the best? I can play only half of Beethoven's cello sonata. The other half requires a pianist. |
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06 Jul 18 - 07:42 AM (#3935677) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Steve Shaw He wrote several. |
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06 Jul 18 - 05:34 PM (#3935823) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: leeneia Hi, Wysiwig. They are not mash-ups, but we have coined new words to use at the computer. bigify = maximize smallify = minimize X that = close the current operation The DH used to say things like "Right double click on the Submit button in the lower central 1/3 of the left margin." I've cured him of that. Now he picks up a pencil and touches the desired feature with the eraser end. Needless to say, this is for features which are hard to locate on a cluttered screen. |
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06 Jul 18 - 08:17 PM (#3935845) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Donuel #3 sonata but its been awhile What about you? |
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06 Jul 18 - 08:52 PM (#3935847) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Steve Shaw That's the Op 69 in A, my favourite. But there were late sonatas too. |
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06 Jul 18 - 09:17 PM (#3935849) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jim Carroll I took a very elderly woman friend into our local Market Town to allow her to do some banking business (a year or so before she died) Before we left to return home I decided to have a quick look in the local second hand bookshop, so I left her in the van for ten minutes. When I returned I asked he if she was o.k. - she replied "I've been sitting here watching the schoolgirls walking past (it was lunchtime) - they all seem to have mobile homes stuck to their ears nowadays" Jim Carroll |
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07 Jul 18 - 02:13 AM (#3935864) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: BobL Has Stanley Unwin ever been bettered? |
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07 Jul 18 - 03:22 AM (#3935873) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jos A three-year-old I know combined a steam roller with an ice-cream van (he was very enthusiastic about both) and came up with 'scream roller'. (I always found Stanley Unwin overrated and annoying.) |
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07 Jul 18 - 03:58 AM (#3935878) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou My next-door neighbour in our last village was a Mrs Malaprop too. She always referred to 'sustifficates' for certificates (a very common Norfolk pronunciation), being 'bronical' and having 'various veins'. She also tried a bit of Latin and often advised one to leave something 'in stitt-you', which I found the funniest of all. If I giggled, she used to give me an old-fashioned look, and say, "Yew moit ha'bin ejuca'ed, but yew hent got a lot a' sense hev yew?" She was right - she was always getting me out of scrapes! |
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07 Jul 18 - 07:21 AM (#3935924) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jos It always amuses me when I hear mothers discussing their children's school and occasional days off, which they call 'insect days'. (For those who do not have children, these are 'inset days'.) |
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07 Jul 18 - 06:26 PM (#3935993) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: JennieG leeneia - a friend of mine used "biggify" a few days ago! She had to use eye drops for conjunctivitis but the print on the pack was so small she couldn't read it so.....and I quote....."I took a pic and biggified it". Despite not having heard it before, her friends knew what she meant. I like the idea that language is always changing and continually being refreshed. It's a living thing, after all, and shouldn't be fossilised. |
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08 Jul 18 - 09:12 AM (#3936063) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: wysiwyg Or stuckified. I've also used Biggify and Smallify for a long time. Now I'm getting Oldified and Creakreated. ~S~ |
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10 Jul 18 - 08:41 PM (#3936575) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: ripov my daughters friend suggested "idiocracy" for our currebt system of government. |
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11 Jul 18 - 04:13 AM (#3936605) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf Idiocracy apparently dates back as far as 1681 and, in its current meaning to 1878! Nothing new under the sun, rip... ;-) Creakreated I like, wysi. Not least because of its clear similarity to "recreated"! |
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11 Jul 18 - 05:15 AM (#3936621) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: wysiwyg Yes, as in, "Today I enjoyed a little spontaneous creakreation, moving heavy furniture and arranging it to my liking." Now if only I can get the local senior center to open a new Creak Center (pron 'crek'), to see if that draws in more people than a Rec (pron 'wreck') center! ~S~ |
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11 Jul 18 - 06:08 AM (#3936632) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou I believe there's a Swedish company called Spotify, which offers something to do with 'streaming' (whatever that might be) It makes me think of giving someone the chickenpox and making their nose run! |
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11 Jul 18 - 12:08 PM (#3936724) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Tattie Bogle Came across quite a few medical misnomers during my working life. There was the man with the "ballistic" kidneys. (polycystic) The "axillary nurse". (She specialises in armpits) "Prostrate" glands, "crucial" ligaments, multiple cirrhosis (for those with more than one liver?) and tintinitus (caused by watching too many cartoons?) And my daughter, then 4, describing the huge jellyfish washed up on the beach as the "one with the very long testicles". |
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11 Jul 18 - 12:15 PM (#3936728) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jon Freeman Pip liked creptipus knees |
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11 Jul 18 - 12:56 PM (#3936734) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou At our local garden centre they had Chinese lanterns for sale (ornamental plants which have attractive papery orange fruit) The label said 'Physalis'. I went there years ago with my friend from Bingo, and sure as fate she read it out rather loudly as 'Syphalis'. You couldn't take her anywhere! |
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11 Jul 18 - 03:04 PM (#3936750) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jos And then there are the simple grammar 'hash-ups' - A travel item in a local newspaper that said that 'Edinburgh never fails to disappoint', and Julia Bradbury (I think - apologies to her, if it wasn't her) describing a walk where you would come across 'a view you can't fail to miss ...'. |
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11 Jul 18 - 06:32 PM (#3936776) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Tattie Bogle Had to laugh at the portable toilets provided at strategic points in Stonehaven last weekend for the Folk Festival - each bearing the notice "Folk Festival overspill toilet" - just hope they didn't! Gentlemen, please lift the seat! |
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12 Jul 18 - 03:10 AM (#3936809) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou Hahahahaha!!! Tattie, that's hilarious! |
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14 Jul 18 - 04:20 AM (#3937274) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: FreddyHeadey John Cushnie, panelist on the BBC's "gardeners question time" ...when talking about weedkillers would enthuse, in his strong Northern Irish accent, about glee-so-fate. |
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14 Jul 18 - 04:36 AM (#3937276) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf By which, for those not in the know, he meant glyphosate (gly-pho-sate). Nice one, Freddy! :) |
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14 Jul 18 - 04:48 AM (#3937281) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Dave the Gnome My late Mum-in-law used to take anti-inflammables for her arthritis and have an coal-effect electric fire as a vocal point in her living room. Best adverts I saw were one for a bungalow with panasonic views across the Rossendale valley and one for a clipper to remove hair from nose and ars! :D |
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14 Jul 18 - 04:58 AM (#3937284) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Steve Shaw Many moons ago there was a Delia Smith cookery programme in which she repeatedly referred to "basalmic vinegar." |
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15 Jul 18 - 10:14 AM (#3937485) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Gda Music I remember when our 4 or 5 year old granddaughter from New York came to stay with us here in London for her holidays. My wife walked her by the hand down the road on her first trip to see our nearby shops. The very first thing that caught her eye was a large colourful advertising billboard for a certain perfume showing the prominent logo FCUK. My granddaughter turned to her to say "Nana they have that spelt wrong". Posters certainly have changed but that same billboard site is still there to make me smile when I pass there. GJ |
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15 Jul 18 - 03:47 PM (#3937565) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou In the sixth form we had to study several French literary classics, and one was 'Eugénie Grandet' by Balzac. We were extremely naughty and insisted on pronouncing his name as Ball Sack in order to make the teacher squirm. I can still see the poor chap standing there shouting "It's Balzac! Balzac I tell you!" He got quite red in the face... |
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15 Jul 18 - 04:32 PM (#3937573) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Steve Shaw There was a Two Ronnies sketch in which mashed-up words were the point of the thing. I remember Ronnie Barker referring to Hilaire Belloc as Hilaro Bollock. Must look it up again...! |
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15 Jul 18 - 04:40 PM (#3937577) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf And that's never mind fork handles, of course, Steve... :o |
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15 Jul 18 - 05:07 PM (#3937584) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Dave the Gnome I think it was the typewriter where the e was stuck, Stove:-) It also mentioned Chancellor of the oxchequer, Donnis Holey. |
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19 Jul 18 - 05:16 AM (#3938214) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou I made a silly 'mash-up' this morning. When we woke up, I asked my husband's opinion as to whether we needed a new mattress, as the present one is a bit saggy now. Unfortunately, I got my French words mixed up. There's matelot and matelas. I informed the poor man that I prefer to lie on top of a nice firm sailor. He's still giggling some hours later. I'll never hear the last of this. |
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19 Jul 18 - 08:39 AM (#3938235) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jos Now you've got me giggling. A friend of mine once got her English muddled up and said she preferred nackered nail varnish [she meant nacré, i.e. pearl]. |
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19 Jul 18 - 09:10 AM (#3938248) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou Hee hee Jos! :) |
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19 Jul 18 - 09:23 AM (#3938253) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Dave the Gnome Who remembers Hylda Baker? Hylda's Malapropisms "You haven't had the pleasure of me yet have you?." "I'll inhale that remark" "You'll become a couple of alcohofrolics" "This is a fine hysterical building, kept up by the National Truss" "I can say that without fear of contraception." "I've had lessons in electricution, you know" "What are you incinerating?" Along with "It's ten past... Ooooh, must get a little hand for this watch" It was her dead pan misuse of language that I remember most. That and her husband in "Nearest and Dearest", played by Jimmy Jewel, calling her a knock-kneed knackered old nose bag. :D tG |
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19 Jul 18 - 09:38 AM (#3938255) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jos Years ago, if you rang Abbey National's Banking Service you would hear a recording saying what sounded like: 'You are through to Abbey National Spanking Service'. |
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19 Jul 18 - 09:39 AM (#3938256) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Nigel Parsons A friend of mine once got her English muddled up and said she preferred nackered nail varnish [she meant nacré, i.e. pearl]. "Try our new Knacker lacquer, and add lustre to your cluster" |
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19 Jul 18 - 05:33 PM (#3938340) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Tattie Bogle As heard on BBC Radio Scotland tonight: "Hearts Football club have been fined for fielding an illegible player"! |
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20 Jul 18 - 12:07 PM (#3938456) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf Well, that's not a mash-up, Tattie, just more bloody ignorant BBC reporters. They're still ahead of the competition, but yeeeeesh! How standards have fallen... :-/ |
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20 Jul 18 - 12:48 PM (#3938469) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou I do like the Abbey National Spanking Service! How much do they charge? |
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20 Jul 18 - 01:27 PM (#3938477) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Raedwulf Hie thee to a nunnery, woman! That one with Sister Zoot, from the sound of it... ;-) |
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21 Jul 18 - 12:13 PM (#3938638) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Tattie Bogle Hmm, Raedwulf, I would have said that substituting "an illegible" for "an ineligible" is mince and tatties (mashed!) Perhaps the newsreader's script was illegible, or maybe he should have gone to Specsavers? |
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21 Jul 18 - 12:27 PM (#3938640) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou I really like Chinese food, and sometimes we get a takeaway for a treat. I was quite amused when checking my bank statement to see a payment to 'Honk Konk'. |
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22 Jul 18 - 03:36 PM (#3938794) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Tattie Bogle On holiday with my daughter and family: heard her telling our son we were "chillaxing" - mashup of chilling out and relaxing, I guess. Ok if you get the opporchancity. |
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25 Jul 18 - 02:18 PM (#3939444) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: FreddyHeadey chillaxed 1999 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chillax opporchancity 2007 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=opporchancity |
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25 Jul 18 - 07:03 PM (#3939498) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jack Campin 'Physalis'. I went there years ago with my friend from Bingo, and sure as fate she read it out rather loudly as 'Syphalis'. My wife did a temp job once as a demonstrator for a supermarket's food section. The demonstrators were asking the punters to sample physalis fruit. Despite intensive practice they were often asked if they'd like to try a phallus. |
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26 Jul 18 - 02:20 AM (#3939528) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaagh Jack! That's brilliant! Were there any takers???? |
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26 Jul 18 - 05:02 AM (#3939546) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Steve Shaw I was a shelf-filler at Victor Value in the 1960s for a while. One day a little old lady, in a muffled, indistinguishable voice, asked me where the bog-roll was. I was a bit taken aback at this apparent vulgarity but I led her round to the toilet rolls aisle. She stood and stared at the shelf then turned sharply to me and said "No! BOVRIL!" |
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26 Jul 18 - 07:01 AM (#3939562) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Senoufou I had a Mrs Slocombe moment yesterday evening while sitting on my bench with my cat SmokeyPokey. Ruth-across-the-road bellowed out from her front garden, "There yew sit agin, a-playin' with yer pussy!" I couldn't decide whether it was a perfectly innocent remark or a very rude one. Knowing Ruth, I suspect the latter. Her husband Robin is just as bad. He recently called over, "Cor! Yew look a roit picture moi dahlin' a-sitting there!" I simpered appreciatively, only to have him call, "Oi meant yer cat not yew yer fewl!" They're really funny the pair of them, I like them so much. |
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26 Jul 18 - 05:08 PM (#3939701) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Tattie Bogle Hope you gave your little old lady the correct answer, Steve: "the Bovril's with the gravy, and the Marmite's with the jam"! |
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28 Jul 18 - 12:07 PM (#3940100) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Mr Red bank statement to see a payment to 'Honk Konk'. good job it was not the Honk Konk and Shankhigh bonk..... |
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28 Jul 18 - 07:05 PM (#3940155) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Jack Campin Taboolshit - what you get when you follow a sponsored link. |
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29 Jul 18 - 03:57 AM (#3940186) Subject: RE: BS: Word Mash-ups? From: Mr Red While in France I spotted "Café M@rmites" I did not sample! |