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New Word You Learned Today (That you'll actually use in the future.)

2bfree2bfree
edited July 2012 in Everything Else
mendacity - Untruthfulness

I think I'll find this word useful when discussing politics.

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  • RuffasRuffas
    edited July 2012
    I don't know that I will actually use it, but gimcrack is a lovely word that means showy but cheap, and I will endeavor to use it when applicable. Free Rice is a useful word-type site that I use with my students vocabulary. You'll probably want to skip to at least level 30 to get words you don't know though.
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  • 2bfree2bfree
    edited July 2012
    I don't know that I will actually use it, but gimcrack is a lovely word that means showy but cheap, and I will endeavor to use it when applicable. Free Rice is a useful word-type site that I use with my students vocabulary. You'll probably want to skip to at least level 30 to get words you don't know though.
    Gimcrack sounds like an awesome first person shooter.

    (Your link got messed up. Free Rice)
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  • RuffasRuffas
    edited July 2012
    Guess the forum wants the http:// s. I pictured gimcrack more as a dungeon crawler myself.
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  • no fun girlno fun girl
    edited July 2012
    I love Futility Closet. They sometimes post unusual or rare words in a segment called "In a word". The last one was felicificability
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  • ProfPanglossProfPangloss
    I learned how to sign Sysadmin in ASL, and I do tech support in a deaf college, does that count? :D
  • RuffasRuffas
    How does one write a particular sign? Or would you just write the English equivalent of it?
  • no fun girlno fun girl
    I learned how to sign Sysadmin in ASL, and I do tech support in a deaf college, does that count? :D
    is it something along the lines of s-y-s-admin (letters & words)? or system-admin (two words)? my ASL teacher loved the fact the louisiana was sometimes spelled L-A in a manner similar to "shit" (the thumb of the L inside a fist, coming out into an A).
  • RymRym
    I believe "Sysadmin" is signed with a single upraised middle finger.
  • ChurbaChurba
    I believe "Sysadmin" is signed with a single upraised middle finger.
    No no, that's just "Fuck you". If you want to sign Sysadmin, you also have to raise an eyebrow and adopt a pained or exasperated expression.
  • Anthony HemanAnthony Heman
    Oh man, now I'm so confused. Maybe all those people were just addressing me inappropriately as the system administrator.
  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    I've been learning quite a few things from Crusader Kings II, (demesne, causa belli, primogeniture, etc) and I've actually had to ask my medievalist girlfriend with help on multiple occasions.
  • SailSail
    medievalist
    Is that a thing?
  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    medievalist
    Is that a thing?
    Yep. Last year she went to England and decrypted some of these runes.
  • RuffasRuffas
    medievalist
    Is that a thing?
    Yep. Last year she went to England and decrypted some of these runes.
    Was this something that had been hitherto undone, or was it for shits and giggles?
  • FarliamentPunkadelicFarliamentPunkadelic
    Tharn: to be frozen in place, usually in shock or terror. Deer in the headlights.
  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    Was this something that had been hitherto undone, or was it for shits and giggles?
    The former. They only found the gold recently.
  • AmpAmp
    medievalist
    Is that a thing?
    Yep I am one. Its a historian that primarily specialises in Medieval history and the various aspects that it entails. Its an easy way of grouping a vague-ish time.

  • DromaroDromaro
    Poutinerie. This is a word that gives me much joy.
  • 2bfree2bfree
    mellifluous - sweetly or smoothly flowing, or flowing with honey.
  • 2bfree2bfree
    nugatory - of little or no consequence
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