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August 16th, 2008 | #1 |
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Interesting New Words for Potential Use
[list of animal adjectives - you know some of these - ursine, porcine, asinine, but there are plenty of others that, while uncommon, can be used to good comic effect. I believe one of our number has already gainfully employed struthious. Note that I am NOT sure all the below are spelled properly, as originally strutious was listed; dictionary.com says strutHious. Pronounced, stroo-the-uhs, accent on first syllable, referring to those of the Swayzean ilk. Note too that this thread is stickied, meaning it is archival, so your post may be edited for clarity, stupidity, and irrelevance. Not that you would ever post such a post, being a clear, intelligent, relevant carer and all. But if you know a good word, or can think of a good use of one of these, by all means have at it. Not looking for lengthy lists like this one, just for words that are uncommon yet potentially useful.]
Animal Name Animal Adjective alligator eusuchian ant formicine, myrmecine anteater myrmecophagine antelope alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine ape simian armadillo tolypeutine ass asinine badger musteline barracuda percesocine bat pteropine, noctilionine bear ursine bee apiarian bird avian, muscicapine, oscine (song) passerine (perching), penduline, volucrine bison bisontine buffalo bubaline bull taurine butterfly pieridine, pierine calf vituline camel cameline cat feline chamois rupicaprine chicken galline civet viverrine cobra elapine coral coralline cow bovine crab cancrine crocodile crocodilian deer cervine, elaphine dodo didine dog canine dolphin delphine dormouse myoxine dragon draconine earthworm lumbricine elephant elephantine elk cervine ermine musteline ferret musteline fish piscine flea pulicine flying fox pteropine fox vulpine frog ranine gazelle gazelline gerbil cricetine gibbon hylobatine giraffe giraffine goat caprine, hircine (smelly) hamster cricetine hare leporine hippopotamus hippopotamine hog suilline hornet vespine horse equine human hominine hyena hyenine kangaroo macropodine leech hirudine lemming microtine lemur lemurine leopard pardine limpet patelline lion leonine lizard lacertilian, saurian lobster homarine louse pediculine manatee manatine marten musteline mink musteline mite acarine mole talpine mongoose viverrine, herpestine moose cervine mosquito aedine, anopheline moth arctian mouse murine octopus octopine opposum didelphine oryx orygine otter lutrine ox bovine oyster ostracine panther pantherine pig porcine, suilline polecat musteline porcupine hystricine porpoise phocaenine python pythonine rabbit lapine raccoon procyonine ram arietine rat murine rattlesnake crotaline reptile reptilian, serpentine reindeer rangiferine rhinoceros ceratorhine rodent glirine roebuck capreoline sable zibeline salamander salamandrine sea horse hippocampine sea lion otarine seal phocine, otarine serpent serpentine sheep ovine shrew soricine silkworm bombycine skunk musteline slug limacine smelt atherine snake anguine, elapine, colubrine (garter,king) ophidian, reptilian, serpentine, viperine squirrel sciurine stag cervine, elaphine stoat musteline sturgeon acipenserine termite termitine tick acarine tiger tigrine toad batrachian tortoise chelonian, testudine turtle chelonian vole microtine wasp vespine weasel musteline wolf lupine wombat phascolomian worm vermian zebra zebrine, hippotigrine Specific Bird Adjectives Animal Name Animal Adjective blackbird icterine bluebird turdine bullfinch pyrrhuline bunting emberizine, pyrrhuloxine buzzard buteonine, cathartine cardinal pyrrhuloxine cormorant phalacrocoracine crane alectorine crow corvine cuckoo cuculine dove columbine duck anatine, fuliguline eagle aquiline falcon accipitrine finch fringilline goose anserine gull larine hawk accipitrine, falconine hummingbird trochiline jay garruline kestrel falconine kingfisher halcyonine kite milvine macaw psittacine magpie garruline mallard anatine martin hirundine meadowlark icterine mockingbird mimine nightingale philomelian oriole icterine ostrich/emu/rhea struthious parrot psittacine partridge perdicine peacock pavonine pheasant alectorine, phasianine pigeon pullastrine plover charadrine quail coturnine raven corvine robin turdine skylark alaudine snipe charadrine songbird oscine sparrow passerine stork ciconine swallow hirundine swan cygnine swift cypseline turkey meleagrine vulture vulturine woodcock charadrine, scolopacine wren troglodytine |
November 11th, 2008 | #2 |
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Has the Tapir been purposely left out of the list?
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November 12th, 2008 | #4 |
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I always liked "porcine" because it reminds one of what it sounds like,"portly," and it sounds comical.
"Bovine" also can be used good effect though, like the word "asinine," it may be a bit too common for what you want to use it for. The magic of these words is that they are considered sort of an intellectual way of putting people down. The comedy of it comes in the mildly understated nature of the insult. Like anything though, familiarity ruins comedy. By the way Alex, have you ever studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)? I have heard about it for years but haven't paid much attention because I associated it with what the British call "woo-woo" type stuff. I only started reading about it, and listening to some audio books, after I realized that many of the best marketing gurus have trained in NLP. Anyway, one of the tenets of NLP is the importance of how language can be used to guide thought. Developing a vocabulary for your ideas is therefore important because it promotes patterns of thought that are associated with the ideas you are promoting. Once people develop positive patterns of thought associated with you, they are obviously more likely to think highly of you and your product or service. This can be applied to anything of course, as the jew marxist well know. there is no reason we can't do the same however. -Brian
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November 14th, 2008 | #5 |
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[found this in review of book about Naipaul]
I think French is right to explain (which is not to condone) some of Naipaul's more provocative views as a form of mischief, which Trinidadians call picong, from the French piquant, a type of sharp talk where, in French's words, "the boundary between good and bad taste is deliberately blurred, and the listener sent reeling." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22062 |
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November 14th, 2008 | #7 |
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BTW, I don't know the adj for tapir, but tapirine is elegant.
After hearing a middle class person take physical pleasure in rolling off 'tornadic activity,' rather than the modest 'tornadoe(s),' I began to beseek other applications of this lofty and supersyllabized term. 'Termitic activity,' or 'tapiric activity' are two early nuggets! Someone was asking why I liked Fussell's "Class" so much. Well, one reason is he alerted me to the above - the middle class's love of pretentiousness as manifest in hypersyllabification, to denote a weight that just aint there. His book is full of this stuff. Full of both things I'd never thought of and answer to many questions I had. I have never seen a book that gives better explanation to why the people I grew up around -- ordinary middle-class suburbans -- acted the way they did. |
November 15th, 2008 | #8 |
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Perhaps, accusing someone of practicing Tapirism would be a polite way of pointing out that individual's Shyster-like behavior
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December 12th, 2009 | #9 |
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[one of my fav words for (usually anonymous) twats offering free advice]
kib⋅itz /ˈkɪbɪts/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kib-its] Show IPA Informal. –verb (used without object) 1. to act as a kibitzer. –verb (used with object) 2. to offer advice or criticism to as a kibitzer: to kibitz the team from the bleachers. Origin: 1925–30, Americanism; < Yiddish kibetsn, equiv. to G kiebitzen to look on at cards, deriv. of Kiebitz busybody, lit., lapwing, plover It's an annoying looker on, hovering and offering free annoying advice, while not daring to join the game himself. |
October 8th, 2010 | #10 |
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[in all my years of studying german, never came across this one: Fremdschämen - stranger-embarrassment - feeling embarrassed for/by the actions of others. i suppose feeling the embarrassment they should but don't feel because of their gross obliviousness.
pops up on jew-feminist-slutsite jezebel, in discussion of halloweenization of oktoberfest Tracht-wear http://jezebel.com/5652502/germans-o...erfest-outfits so two good words with no real english equivalent: Schadenfreude - very slightly guilt-tinged pleasure in the misfortunes of others and Fremdschämen - feeling for others the embarrassment they should but dont feel for their dress, behavior, etc [Also interesting, if you read the article, is that the dirdl or tracht is apparently on the order of the men's skirts in Scotland - made up by somebody 100 years ago, not truly traditional.] Last edited by Alex Linder; October 8th, 2010 at 07:42 PM. |
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More proof that 3rd gendered persons had not yet gained control of the fashion business, back then
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If anything, a German will look at others in a clinical manner as if they are standing in a testtube or are getting viewed under a microscope. Unlike, say, in the Kwa or in Ireland, Germans extremely rarely criticize strangers in public, unless it's about some Battleax reprimanding some drunken homeless bum for calling his female dog a cunt. Social extremism of this type is likely to get sparked by a sexist event, if anything
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Fender Benders
Funny how contemporary Germans tend to get bent out of shape, through property damage. Even if it's a scratch on a toy plastic bumper on a new Toyota. However, when their kids get roughed up by Muds on the way to school, it seems to be only the kids' problem.
Getting back to inventing words, I'm guilty of such, myself. Sometimes you get to run in to one of these Germans who thinks he's immortal. In Kwa-speak, such are called "self-important". If you try directly translating this word, it turns out "selbstwichtig". Reading it, it makes sense. But, when conversing, the person you're talking to can't see that it's one word. They are more than likely to intercept what you're saying as "selbst wichtig" (he is important, himself) which goes way past their heads. I then tried to use a phrase called "selbstlegendär" (self-legendary). Unfortunately, I got the same puzzled look
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Germans often use the phrase "fremd gehen" (going unknown/going strange) to describe having sexual encounters with people who they haven't met before
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Strange has been used for (new pussy) in the US too, altho I have never heard anyone actually use it that way, only seen it written a few times. It may be an older or Southern expression. Think Tom Petty may have used it in a song once.
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On a similar theme someone emailed me this list of modified words
MENSA INVITATIONAL The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high 8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido : All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating. The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are: 1. Coffee, n.. The person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3.. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4 esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent. 6.. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown. 7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash. 9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. 13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist. 14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
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To deliver a baby could be misinterpreted by foreigners learning English as the act of removing the baby's liver
I heard a woman in a bar use the phrase "bekannt gehen" (going known), jokingly, of course, as a form of otherwise British word play to deride a German expression. Pretty creative, for a German (in that respect) As singer of a band called The Travelling Willburys, Tom did a good job of exposing himself as a strange pussy
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I remember Müller talking after the loss against Inter about players with more hair on their backs than on their had who were just a lot more clever (he did not use clever but the word "abgefuckt" - there is not a really good translation for it - maybe even cheeky, devious, twisty). Inter might be full of internationals - but there is something really Italian about them.
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A few new Periodic Table elements of late;
Israelium; Most noxious substance known. Skunk spray is 1.911% Israelium. Ignominium; Kanada UberGruppenFurher Harper wears an invisible Halo made of the stuff. Incontium; Levels of Incontium rise late in life hence the need for Depends and Poise undergarments. |
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