Did the NYT link to us again or something?
"peripatetized" is indeed somewhat fun to say.
Did you use all 50? I'm assuming you did. If so, well done! If not, well, nice try!
I did. Though as you noticed I misspelled one. Thanks.
If is of course
If I'm going to read this whole thing, I need a better entry point than this.
The joke being that the post read like any other Nosflow post at first.
My first thought upon reading this was . . . that the first word is a typo.
Sorrrrrry. I was in a hurry! At least I fixed the "write"/"right" mistake before anyone mentioned it.
Highly oulipian of you (even though the NYer doesn't think that "oulipian" requires glossing).
Eric Ambler wrote a fun little essay on the word "louche." I wonder whether that essay is somehow the source of the Times' fondness for it.
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15: The New Yorker makes NickS feel like a natural woman.
The first sentence seemed like a model of unintentional irony, but perhaps they know me better than I know myself . . .
13:Finally, a word I don't know! Although it would be challenging to define or use correctly the words in the list, and neb is to be congratulated.
I have actually been examining the substance of the post, becoming instantly defensive when someone mentions "solipsism."
I knew who left the comment to the NYer piece before even looking.
Against my better judgment, I renewed my NYer subscription the other day after a several-year hiatus. I'm not sure why, other than that it was cheap, and having it around may keep my wife from picking up even lower-brow trash at the grocery store.
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I have also just made a sauce meurette, which is fabulous, and have a half-pound of scapes in the fridge.
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I'll just hang out in this here thread, in case anyone has any questions.
I renewed my NYer subscription the other day after a several-year hiatus
Jesus, and here I've been asking myself why I haven't renewed my Harper's subscription: does it actually not interest me that much? But it does! Yet I don't seem to miss it, really. But I do! Kind of. But not enough to do it yet, apparently, and what's up with that?
Understand that these are idle thoughts.
I knew who left the comment to the NYer piece before even looking.
It is not incorrect.
Fungibility is why you can't bend a mushroom.
an antideluvian is used against rain, like an umbrella or an ark.
26: Indeed, I would go so far as to say that it is indeed correct. The peculiar use of "parlous" made the piece seem a little pathetic.
Should I sauté my scapes? I could make oeufs en meurette and use the same sauce for both. My hands smell fantastic, by the way.
Epistemology is the rash the football squad broke out in the morning after their bender
parapetetic is an architectural style characterized by a low wall at the edge of a (often flat) roof
feckless is when an Irishman can't get any.
A solipsist is someone who wants a tan mouth.
A recondite is a priest's...an ecclesiastical...uh uh damn.
Sumptuary law is a ruling on glands but I forgot which
sanguine is what England became after the great recoinage of 1816.
inchoate is what you hope you get if you don't get indeerfield
ersatz is what she puts on erzeds
The peculiar use of "parlous" made the piece seem a little pathetic.
The use itself is not incorrect either, but it is, according to the OED, rare generally and remains on solely as an English regionalism. So that might be the explanation.
Parlous acid has one fewer oxygen atoms than does parlic acid.
abstruse is when they resolved the bodybuilding feud
A comity is something that gets stupider the more people are part of it.
Before I join in the reindeer games, I just want to note that "louche" is one of my favorite words, and the verlan version, pronounced "sh-loo," is even more fun to say.
naw, a sumptuary law is what prevents the Sheriff from arresting you if you claim asylum in a water filled hole
louche is how I likesh women
Atreus is nothing but open threads, open threads, open threads
An appurtenance is what kinda nance he got, ain't he?
Profligacy is when PhDs make the beast with two backs.
OT: proof that no one cares about the NHL -- I'm here at a bar (actually, Tweety's favorite bar) watching what is probably the most important and exciting hockey game in years. And I'm the only one paying even moderate attention.
A comity is something I generally like unless it has Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler.
Halford, I don't know what Tweety's favorite bar is, but does that mean your on my side of town?
Yep, at Taix. Come on by, or email!
51: I'm at home paying moderate attention.
I think Hockey is the only sport where you'd have a key player named "Maxime Talbot.". All time great name -- hopefully Pittsburgh will have a lot of 2009 babies named "Maxime."
58: It's going to be a bunch of Sidneys.
Yeah, that's probably right, but also awesome. Btw as a Southern Californian I basically know nothing about hockey, but this is a great game with some serious underdogs up 2-1 (although not as great as last night's Lakers game, which had me high as a kite all day).
61: Detroit scored? I'd better go back to the TV room. I came up for 2/3rds time.
Addgh, no, it's still 2-0. A mistype.
Right. Sumptuary laws impose a syntax on the acquisitive.
Yeah Pittsburgh. Much quieter outside than after the Super Bowl.
43: I didn't know about verlan. Fascinating!
That was a good game. Bravo, Pittsburgh!
I tried to talk myself into supporting Detroit because Detroit could use some good news these days, but I just couldn't do it.
Rhode Hampshire is America's most conflicted state.
I spoke to quick about the celebratory noise. People must have had to finish their beer or something.
74 is missing an 'o' at some point.
Exhausted from just waching. Nothing easy.
Wow, great game. Congrats Pittsburgh. Plus, it's so great that Boston thought that it would win in Football, Basketball, Hockey and Baseball in 2008-2009 but that 1/2 of those titles have been taken by Pittsburgh and one is about to be taken by LA. Ha ha.
The use itself is not incorrect either, but it is, according to the OED, rare generally and remains on solely as an English regionalism.
I figured that the NYer's copyediting is still scrupulous enough that the use was correct, but it read as though overreaching to impress.
Meanwhile in Philadelphia, this is quite a lively 13th inning.
Don't let's
I strongly associate this peculiar locution with the Famous Five series of novels by Enid Blyton.
Re 79, unfortunately, the Red Sox are a very, very good team right now -- better than my Dodgers, although we have a better run differential.
Or maybe you'll simply declare the list a shibboleth of snobbery.
A snobbery of shibboleths, rather.
Not only is "snobbery" a good term to adopt as the collective noun for shibboleth, "a shibboleth of snobbery" doesn't really make much sense.
I'm so pissed. I watched nearly every shift of the last three Wings series. They played Pittsburgh's kind of game, all that shit along the boards, the whole sixty minutes tonight.
And I need never hear Don Cherry's voice again. That fat fuck was going on for a good three minutes about the way Crosby taped his stick. You kids out there: Look at this! Look at how he cleans up after himself!
Goddammit.
I think Hockey is the only sport where you'd have a key player named "Maxime Talbot.". All time great name -- hopefully Pittsburgh will have a lot of 2009 babies named "Maxime."
What about tennis? There are male stars named "Robin Soderling" and "Jo-Wilfried Tsonga".
Maybe if you just made it "Maximetalbot" (five syllables( it would be more intimidating.
It's my Cup and I award it to the Chicago Wolves. Fuck a bunch of Pittsburgh and Detroit wannabes.
I don't know what I'm talking about.
And now I've fallen while skating and fucked up my wrists.
Look at this! Kids! Don't skate drunk, I tell ya!
43 - Then you will enjoy this song, Jackmormon.
89 - I'm pretty sure it's this, right?
Also, is the plural of "shibboleth" really "shibboleths"? I figured it would have to be shibbolae or shibbolithim or somesuch.
English words are generally pluralized with -s, yes.
I'd heard that, yes. But you know, moose, fish, goose, mouse, octopus, thesis, analysis? And is shibboleth really English anyway?
Aha, Hebrew, of course. So shibbolethim or shibbolethot? Or something? And sure, I know it's English now, but c'mon.
It's English enough, especially with that meaning. The Hebrew plural would be something like "shibbolthoth," although it seems to be a hapax legomenon within the Bible so it's hard to say for sure (at least for someone with my limited Hebrew). The masculine "shibbol" seems to be considerably more common; its plural would be "shibbolim."
"Shibboltot" in modern (i.e., Sephardic) Hebrew, of course.
That's more like it. Because I'm saying, every single time I go to write the plural of shibboleth, I hafta ask myself, "What's the plural of shibboleth?" Who's with me?
How many times do you go to write the plural of shibboleth, though? I mean, I guess it comes up from time to time, but how often, really? And in any case, the default plural in English is definitely -s, so using -s is almost always going to at least be defensible as a choice even for obscure words of foreign origin.
But it's an important choice, because if you get it wrong you get slain at the passages of the Jordan.
That one was a little more challenging. And now, to bed.
But first, I respond to 101: Nah, the part that may or may not get you slain is at the other end of the word.
"Shibboloth" (without the 't'), according to the Even-Shoshan dictionary.
best say shibbolethsh all the same
106: I misread a family tree. How silly of me!
107: I'm sure JRoth just didn't want to insult you by not treating you in accordance what he knew to be your very high personal standards.
If I ran across this while grading an English 101 essay, I'd give it a C-. The dunce who wrote it would deserve the bad mark for forcing me to read the entire bloody thing. No such requirement of performance here, thank goodness.
No such requirement of performance here, thank goodness.
You should at least "read" the link.
74: I spoke to quick about the celebratory noise. People must have had to finish their beer or something.
Yes, apparently we were under some kind of attack last night, judging from the number of bottle rocket remains (one of which had driven itself into the ground pretty substantially) I found in the yard (my head is stuffed with a cold and we had music on so I actually only heard a little bit). I think more than other major sports championships, viewers stay tuned the Stanley Cup award and the players taking turns skating it around the ice, so the celebration is a bit delayed.
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Commencement liveblogging: it's hot out here in this damn regalia.
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111: I heard the fireworks, but was far enough away that I don't have to do any clean-up. At least it doesn't look like Oakland got trashed (from the news, I haven't gone there). I suppose having a hockey season that goes into June helped that since the undergrads are out for the summer.
The live TV news assured us that there were hundreds of thousands of police on the South Side. And didn't show any evidence that anyone other than police was on the South Side. So, the lack of undergraduates in Oakland meant there was only one flashpoint for them to worry about.
116: I read a news report that there was only one arrest in Oakland. It was for burning a couch, so that might not even be related to the Stanley Cup.
117: I wonder what the hell Megan was doing in Pittsburgh, but it sound like she had (m-)fun. Should we start a collection plate around to make her bail?
WRT the title of this post, I am familiar with it, as I expect most of you are, as the instruction for certain dispensing machines found in restrooms.
In one case, it had been augmented by the further advice: Repeat Until Orgasm.
118: This couch was on the ground the whole time, so probably somebody else.
If I ran across this while grading an English 101 essay, I'd give it a C-.
What, regardless of what topic had been set?
In English 101, the topic might be "Write an essay".
I have literally never taken English 101.
"Write an essay"
Well, I tried, but...
They don't look kindly on paronomasia in English 101, I bet.
109 should anyway begin "If I were gradfing this as an English 101 essay" or something to that effect. One can't assign grades to just anything one comes across while grading something else.
I think I've literally never taken any class numbered "101".
No wait! I think I took Art History 101, suffixed with a letter or something. God, that was an awful class.
Ooh, ooh! I took German 101! (My first year or two they hadn't yet switched to the 5-digit course numbers.) And I really do know German at about a 101 level, no more, no less.
Oh, shit. That's right. I did take German 101. Actually I think it was German 10100.
I took Linguistics 101, and from looking at my transcript it appears that one of the freshman writing seminars I took was listed as Medieval Studies 101.
132: Yeah, see I took it when it was still German 101. Ha!
I took German in '03-'04. Looks like the switch to 5 digits was in '01-'02? I totally do not remember that. I guess because the last two digits were always "00". (I assume we are talking about the same university.)
Is "gradfing" on the list?
I spent almost all of today walking up and down various high things in the hot sun, so this time I have an excuse.
I thought the five-digit switch was 02-03?
I took German 201 my first quarter, when two sections were offered, and then in the next quarter couldn't get into 202, of which only one section was offered for some reason, so I took Latin 205 instead. That was the beginning and end of my undergraduate German education.
I thought the five-digit switch was 02-03?
That's what I would have guessed, but here's evidence to the contrary.
Actually I think it was German 10100.
I am horribly ashamed that my first reaction to this was a binary joke.
138: Mine too, and I'm not the computer science sort.
Yeah, I want to say I was there for two years of 3-digit course numbers, which would mean that '01-'02 was the first year of five digits, and a visit to the catalog website confirms that this is the case.
As for the last two digits, I believe there actually were some departments which offered non-00 courses, hence suggesting that the expanded namespace actually was useful to some. (Yup, Biological Sciences.)
How many people here were at the U of C around that time? I don't think I had picked up from previous threads that you were, OvB. (I just had a few moments of "wait, is OvB [person A]? no, that doesn't fit... [person B?] no..." I'm pretty sure I don't know you.)
Nosflow, you, and I, are the only ones I can think of who overlapped in undergrad, but as you know, there are plenty of others here who spent at least some time in Hyde Park. But yeah, you almost certainly don't know me. I didn't talk much in college.
Chicago:Unfogged::Cornell:EotAW
Heh. I guess I haven't mentioned here where I got my PhD....
Not that there isn't any overlap, of course.
I THINK YOU MEAN OPTIMI GENERIS
No, I meant "best of the kind", not "of the best kind".