Does anyone out there know how this came to mean "caught on"? Or "came to understand"? I like it so much I even use it.
Slava
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- Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:15 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Interesting Article
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9780
Interesting Article
In case you're interested in language history, you might find this worth looking at:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0719/p13s01-stgn.htm
No registration necessary.
Slava
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0719/p13s01-stgn.htm
No registration necessary.
Slava
- Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Fastness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6390
Fastness
A bunch of interesting meanings in this one. How fast are you? I may be fast, but I'm not cheap? Or, I'm so fast I'm not cheap? Or...?
I hope you all enjoy playing with this one.
Slava
I hope you all enjoy playing with this one.
Slava
- Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Ingeminate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10983
Ingeminate
"Let me ingeminate, I am not a crook."
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: mean
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14631
Math
Thank you for the tutorial. I'd forgotten completely about the mode and range. I also thought the median was the number at which 50% are above, and 50% below. This tutorial doesn't put it that way. Oh, well, shows what I know, eh?
Slava
Slava
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:38 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Silly
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5661
Silly
A simple little word that has had lots of different meanings and usages.
Enjoy,
Slava
Enjoy,
Slava
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:35 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: mean
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14631
Mean/Average/Median
I could have sworn that way back when, in grade school, we were taught that these each had different meanings in Math. However, I can't come up with a difference between mean and average. Am I mis-remembering, or is there a difference? Any math wiz out there who'd care to help?
Thanks,
Slava
Thanks,
Slava
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:38 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Swedge
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9681
Swedge
I'd call this one rare. However, it's quite useful in meaning: To leave without paying. Though I gather the Scots use it to mean a brawl. Then again, if you do try to swedge, a brawl could result.
Slava
Slava
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:51 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Storge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9050
Storge
(STORE-gee) The love of a parent for offspring.
A fun word, and a lot easier to remember than philoprogeneity.
Slava
A fun word, and a lot easier to remember than philoprogeneity.
Slava
- Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:00 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Embrocation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10894
Embrocation
A liquid Ben-Gay, perhaps?
I came across this reading some short stories from the late 19th century, Rivals to Sherlock Holmes. It struck me it might have a use for sesquipedalians.
Slava
I came across this reading some short stories from the late 19th century, Rivals to Sherlock Holmes. It struck me it might have a use for sesquipedalians.
Slava
- Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Cupreous
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11579
Bloody Sunsets
Aye, that's the ticket. I don't have any of mine in my computer, and have no clue as how to post them anyway, so I can't share. But thanks for yours.
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- Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:21 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Cupreous
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11579
Sunny Windows
gailr,
I've seen this effect, too. I used to have an apartment that faced away from the sunset. Thus the buildings around me often looked like they were on fire, from the way the sun hit the windows. I took pictures at times, because it was so realistic.
Slava
I've seen this effect, too. I used to have an apartment that faced away from the sunset. Thus the buildings around me often looked like they were on fire, from the way the sun hit the windows. I took pictures at times, because it was so realistic.
Slava
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:38 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Cupreous
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11579
Cupreous
I have a real-life use, not related to hair or copper wire. Actually two. 1) Yesterday there was a lovely cupreous glow to the evening sky as the sun dipped below the horizon. 2) My pizza last night had very greasy pepperoni, so the bottom of the box was covered with a rather cupreous slime. Fortuna...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Bilious
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9898
urpy?
I'm afraid I'm lost on this one. Does this have a meaning, or is it an inside joke? The dictionaries on-line don't have it.
Slava the Dense
Slava the Dense
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Cupreous
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11579
Cupreous
Could red-heads be described as having cupreous locks? Poetically, I'm sure, but they'd probably deck you if you used in to their face. Along those lines, how does the Agora feel about the use of they and their to avoid he/she and his/her? It seems to be becoming quite common, though at times it doe...