There are some words I can never seem to remember the definitions for no matter how many times I read the definition. I noticed this using my Kindle (which broke this week), which allows me to find the definition of a word I don't know in a book I'm reading with just a press of the screen. For some words the definition just won't stick. Sometimes it's a word that resembles another word or that I can't remember the proper nuance. Sometimes I don't even understand the definition. I don't know if this is just something I do, or something everyone does. I assume the 2nd one, but that may just be me projecting my experiences on others. Well anyway, here's a short list.
Peregrine: The fastest bird and the slowest Hobbit.
(https://i.imgur.com/wh1aHVE.jpg)
Sublime: Something directly underneath a lime "This tequila is sublime!"
(https://i.imgur.com/m5AgUS0.jpg)
Verve: A low rent Mick Jagger
(https://i.imgur.com/YYwhStP.jpg)
Anathema: A hat-based religion founded by occultist Aleister Crowley in an attempt to best the mitre as the most preposterous religious headgear
(https://i.imgur.com/hJQczwA.jpg)
Prodigal: A rent-boy with a sugar daddy.
(https://i.imgur.com/zWbWB9G.jpg)
Praxis: The same as "practice" but at the college level.
(https://i.imgur.com/vsOM0YL.jpg)
Homeostasis: A gay man incapable of movement
(https://i.imgur.com/sv3Na4Y.jpg)
Stolid: A type of fossilized microbial mat. Basically ancient pound scum
(https://i.imgur.com/iuaiziH.jpg)
Ontology: The study of madness
(https://i.imgur.com/8tsYSBM.jpg)
stochastic: Magic, basically
(https://i.imgur.com/xd2d1L2.jpg)
heuristic: I don't know what this word means and neither does anyone else.
(https://i.imgur.com/Z8jXvsq.jpg)
Razgovory.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 05, 2021, 11:44:52 AM
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heuristic: I don't know what this word means and neither does anyone else.
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This.
Definitely not this. I know what the word means.
Reticent. I just know everybody uses it wrong and I am supposed to be outraged by that but I cannot remember what it actually means.
Quote from: Valmy on March 05, 2021, 08:30:27 PM
Reticent. I just know everybody uses it wrong and I am supposed to be outraged by that but I cannot remember what it actually means.
??? I can't remember the last time I saw the word seriously misused.
Quote from: Eddie Teach on March 05, 2021, 09:39:41 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 05, 2021, 12:34:37 PM
Razgovory.
Something Russian I think.
Way, way back, I needed a name for AOL instant messenger. Every name I came up with was already taken, so I looked around for something obscure. I had a book on uniforms for the Russian Civil war so I picked the name of a tab on the front of a Soviet Uniform. That seemed obscure enough and AOL accepted it.
Quote from: grumbler on March 05, 2021, 09:00:30 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 05, 2021, 08:30:27 PM
Reticent. I just know everybody uses it wrong and I am supposed to be outraged by that but I cannot remember what it actually means.
??? I can't remember the last time I saw the word seriously misused.
People use it to mean reluctant but this is outrageous since it originally meant....*looks it up*...to keep silent. I only vaguely remember who it was who was outraged by this, probably my latin teacher.
Huh, I don't think I've ever heard it used to mean reluctant.
I thought it was close to shy, withdrawn. Which I guess is in the neighborhood.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 05, 2021, 10:38:11 PM
Way, way back, I needed a name for AOL instant messenger. Every name I came up with was already taken, so I looked around for something obscure. I had a book on uniforms for the Russian Civil war so I picked the name of a tab on the front of a Soviet Uniform. That seemed obscure enough and AOL accepted it.
Interesting. :)