Serious or irreverent welcome
We elected dumb motherfuckers in office
Vaccinations are mandatory
Religion is stupid
I’m sorry
I was wrong
Could we adresse this point in a separate meeting with relevant people ?
Here’s how it is, spoken by Malcolm Reynolds.
Hot diggity dog, let’s strike while the iron is hot and get on the ball while it’s rolling with some old tyme phrases.
- “Thank you”
- “My bad”
- “I am not familiar with the subject so I have no opinion on it”
On point number 3, I once got dunked on for saying that I didn’t know anything about the subject at hand when asked. The other person told me “Well, that’s just a cop out. Just make something up!”
edit: clarification
I was wrong.
Everybody wants to hear that, nobody wants to say it.
Too much to ask, pure fantasy
I petition to bring back regular use of Kerfuffle.
Same for dust-up.
I’ll sign that petition no doubt
“lambasts” or “pillories” instead of “slams” in news headlines
How about “threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table” instead of “slams”
lambasts
Lambastes?
Verisimilitude. It’s just nice.
It’s a good word! How would you use it in a sentence?
Poorly! As I’m currently high and do not feel confident using it correctly!
Looks cool though!
I’m less high now!
I normally use it when talking about miniatures and toy train setups.
“The miniature painted conifers with bits of snow really have the scene verisimilitude”
I could still be very wrong.
Do you mean the simulacra gave the scene verisimilitude?
Very likely! Even when not high, I use words wrongly! Very very wrongly.
The general meaning is the appearance of truth or validity.
But I usually use it to describe something that is “believable” even if the underlying premise is not. So a fantasy story that pays close attention to detail and is highly consistent might be described as having versimilitude. On the other hand, a story where the characters make out-of-character choices might be lacking versimilitude, even if there are no overtly “fictional” elements to the story.
That’s usually how I’ve heard it used, not sure if it’s the “main” usage though.
The novelist’s meticulous attention to historical detail—from the cadence of 19th-century dialogue to the texture of hand-stitched corsets—lent her story an uncanny verisimilitude, making even the most outlandish plot twists feel hauntingly plausible.
“Wow isn’t life great since we went to the 3 day working week!”
- cerulean is a word that just has so much more class and gravitas than “sky blue”
- gravitas is a word that simply has no other word providing such … well, gravitas (dignity, solemnity, etc.)
- charlatan is a word we need to apply every time a politician or a CEO or such speaks
- the Holy Triad: whence, whither, wherefore
- nubivagant is a word that doesn’t mean anything like what it looks and sounds like
- removedrdly is another word that doesn’t mean anything like what it looks and sounds like (and can get you fired if you have uneducated colleagues)
- frippery is just fun to say
I would also like to see some further German words imported into English like we imported “Schadenfreude”:
- Backpfeifengesicht as an alternative for ‘a punchable face’
- Fremdschämen to express being embarrassed for someone who’s done something cringe
- Weltschmerz is a word I’ll let you look up so you can see how it might be super-appropriate for this day and age
There’s also a Chinese word I’d like to bring into English and make common:
- 三观 (sānguān) which is pronounced kinda/sorta “san gwun”, means literally “three views”, and means idiomatically the alignment (or lack thereof) of worldviews, values, and ethics between individuals
“cerulean is a blue dream.” – x-files
Yup, Pusher is the first thing I think of related to cerulean.
“I was wrong”
I love being wrong, it’s the gateway to new knowledge, but other people view not knowing through a self-esteem lens
“I don’t know.”
If we were honest, it’s the thing we should all be saying and hearing all day long. But it’s not. Quite the opposite, it’s among the rarest. Instead, people are shooting their certainties at one another, relentlessly.
Not knowing something or not having an opinion on a question is not an issue. It’s to be expected, even if we were all geniuses (I’m certainly not one). Not doing the work to inform oneself could potentially be an issue but should not be as long we don’t pretend otherwise. It’s when one pretends to know, based on what one has heard someone else say, or because one wants to push a specific narrative that suits them, that shit starts hitting the fan. That’s when living together turn into the stinking shit hole it has turned into in which lies are fine (when they’re not adored) and facts have become suspicious if not dangerous.
Obviously, I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Good forenoon to you!
Also, I’m totally down with referring to the days of the Week by their etymological roots. Happy Day of Thor to you!
Ooooh I’m 100% behind using the etymological roots. Good call!
May tomorrow you have an excellent Day of Venus.
Why thank you 😊
Surely you mean Star Period 4?
Call it cheesy, but people need to tell each other “I love you” more often.
Funny, I was gonna say “cheesy”, but I mean “cheesy” literally, because I’m hungry
