clemenza, have you considered
~activating~ the modern learners?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
they are full of stored up potential, waiting to be unleashed. but first you must activate
And me in love with modern learningMe in love with modern rock & rollModern learning and modern rock & rollDon't feel so alone, got the modern learners activated
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
"I had that dream again" is getting pretty tedious
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
"hellscape"
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
"jobby"
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
People that apologize for saying something weird. Being a normie isn't something people should strive for.
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
"what fresh hell..." was good when it was new. it is no longer new.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
No longer fresh.
― jmm, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
What everyone really needs to accept is that it’s horribly grating to hear anyone say anything that anyone else has ever said before
― devops mom (silby), Friday, July 6, 2018 6:18 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
ugh my mom used to say that
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
In The Flowers of Tarbes: or, Terror in Literature, Jean Paulhan distinguishes between rhetoricians – those who believe that language is a pre-existing reservoir of commonplace tropes – and terrorists – revolutionaries who demand that language be perpetually reinvented. I assume most of us itt are terrorists.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
I like that construction
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I'm absolutely a terrorist, there's nothing I love more than the abject crimes against comprehensibility I sometimes find in the wild
you might think of advertising and other forms of commercial text as tropey but the innovations I've seen in ads and headlines and marketing-speak have affected me profoundly
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
jazztalkers 4lyfe
― Moussa- ppl gon die (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
on NPR I heard the termed "pwned" pronounced like "owned" with a p at the beginning ("poned" if you will). i don't know that i've ever attempted to pronounce pwned but would you say "poned" or just "owned" or "owned with a p"?
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I still hear it in my head as "pawned"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I'd say it the NPR way.
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
made me cringe for some reason, but it's always a little embarrassing when internet lingo gets thrown around irl
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
That word should never be spoken
― calstars, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
otm
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
pronounced "oat-um"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 14 December 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
always heard poned, but have heard pawned before. i remember hearing the correct pronunciation is "owned", the p is not pronounced, but that's some dot-jiff shit best left in history's dustbin. actually the whole word is
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Friday, 14 December 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
like lets stop saying pwned we are no longer eagerly awaiting the 1.6 iteration of counterstrike
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Friday, 14 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
In my head pwned sort of rhymes with swooned. Not with boned.
Pwn basically rhymes with swoon.
This is partly by analogy with "cwm," a word derived from Welsh, meaning "valley," and it may be the only other English word in which way is a vowel.
But I acknowledge that this is not the general consensus.
― Anne Frankenstein (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 December 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
* in which w functions as a vowel (I meant to say)
― Anne Frankenstein (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 December 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
the term abu amza
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Saturday, 15 December 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
when i used to play counterstrike and be on ventrilo back in the early 00s we (mainly British people with a few northern Europeans) used to say "poned"
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 15 December 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
cornpwn
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 15 December 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
i don't like the world progressive in most contexts that it's used - progressive politics, progressive rock, progressive house. i like the meaning that means going forward from step to step
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 15 December 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
agreed, it's an unpleasant word for some reason. "prog rock" is even worse.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
ah, but the progressive income tax is a fine thing to behold
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Pwned = teh l0lz
― calstars, Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
^
teh n00b
― Anne Frankenstein (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
^l337
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 15 December 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
"navigate expectations"
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 16 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
There is a complex science to avoiding letting anyone expect anything from you
― jmm, Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
when ppl use modernity to mean modern aka contemporary times as opposed to its term of art use as a particular era in history idk this is prescriptivist but esp in intellectual or political contexts bugs me
― Mordy, Monday, 17 December 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
hmm
https://i.imgur.com/2KjMuOC.png
also lmao me literally clicking from a thread where someone used it (perfectly correctly imo) directly to this one. like... aren't you describing modernism?
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
i'm w Mordy on this one
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
'Whilst'
― estela (estela), Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:38 PM (thirteen years ago)
A terrible, terrible word unjustifiably enjoying a resurgence round here.
― calumerio, Monday, 17 December 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
*Whilst'd've
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
“within” as a substitute for “in” to fancy up pedestrian writing. “The solution was placed within a beaker for stirring,” et alia.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
it's been over two years since 2016-11-08 and I would like all organizations to cease saying "now more than ever"
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
good call
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
there’s never been a better time
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 December 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
"Dispatches from ...."
― jmm, Thursday, 27 December 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
"L'affaire russe"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 January 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
the reason i'm rooting against giant strides in human longevity is so i don't have to see the phrase "fin de siècle" again a hundred times a day in 80 years
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 3 January 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link