[Oldmanmatt]

Having spent far too much time dealing with Italian businessmen, I wake sweating during the night; with the word "Procrastination" echoing in the depths of my soul...

[r-man]

Why can't Americans abseil? What they do is just repelling.

http://www.ehow.com/video_2358477_repel-rock-climbing.html

[mrjonathanr]

That's repellent.

[SamT]

top thread that is now preventing me from getting on with work (bar the very fact that I'm browsing ukb).

Twiffler  - plate that is somewhere is size between a large dinner plate and a small side plate. i.e. a medium plate.
Use it all the time, and derives from the dutch twijfelen which means to be unsure - or intermediate.

I like the idea of a plate being unsure as to which size it is.

[Oldmanmatt]

No no no:

Twiffler: person who speaks in sentences of 140 characters or less.

Seriously, good one and a new one on me.

[andy_e]

We should adopt this twiffler word to refer to someone of average height who can complain that a problem is too reachy or too bunched, and is therefore in both camps.

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[SA Chris]

Would names that ring in the head be a different thread? I am periodically fixated on Laurent Gbagbo.

I hear you on that. I sometimes get Yehudi Menuhin in my head and it won't go away.

[andy_e]

Benyamin Netanyahu is one of mine (I used to get confused between Netanyahu and Menuhin when I was younger. Yehudi Netanyahu Is a violin-playing Israeli prime-minister.)

[slackline]

<pedant>I wouldn't consider names, no matter how weird or catchy, to be weird words as you can't look them up in a dictionary.</pedant>

Although I've nothing against thread-drift whatsoever.

[robertostallioni]

I used to like "bandied", but nowadays I find it just gets...um..overused.

[Jaspersharpe]

This is interesting about UK slang catching on in the US:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249

[tomtom]

This is interesting about UK slang catching on in the US:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249

Thats, like - soo AWESOME!

[slackline]

Thought this fitted in with the language theme of this thread...

To pun or not to pun

[slackline]

So what

I'm boring and think it should remain in the preserve of the conjunctive rather than starting sentences with it.  You don't start a sentence with "Errr" / "Um" when speaking people tend to pause and think about what they're going to say.  This is even more so when typing in emails/forums/twatter/farcebook because you have the time and freedom to pause and think about what you are writing.

[johnx2]

So what

it should remain in the preserve of the conjunctive

What's jam got to do with it?

I've really noticed this, especially with academics. Sat through a series of interviews recently and all the candidates did this, for pretty much every question. The backlash is clearly overdue.




"backlash"  mmmmm there's a nice word.


"shiboleth" I've been liking too...

 

[SA Chris]

double b?

Harangue.

Like meringue only less nice.

[slackline]

metagrobolize

(I would link to its definition but....)

[slackline]

Syzygy

[butters]

Forgot about this thread - one I heard the other day and seems, to me at least, rather appropriate currently is kakistocracy

[andy_e]

Syzygy

I think this every time I see sxrxg's forum name. I bet that's where you got it from.

[slackline]

I bet that's where you got it from.

No I was reading an essay by the evolutionary biologist William D Hamilton.

[SA Chris]

A new one for me

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backwardation.asp

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[r-man]

...There's a reason you haven't heard those words before. It's because they were all made up by one person in the last few years.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a website and YouTube channel created by John Koenig that defines neologisms for emotions that do not have a descriptive term.[1] The dictionary includes verbal entries on the website with paragraph-length descriptions and videos on YouTube for individual entries. The neologisms, while completely created by Koenig, are based on his research on etymologies and meanings of used prefixes, suffixes, and word roots.[2] The terms are often based on "feelings of existentialism"[3] and are meant to "fill a hole in the language", often from reader contributions of specific emotions.[4]

Here's the website. http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/

[SA Chris]

Funny as.