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>you try to give them a head's up and they look at the ceiling!
As would I. What is a "head's up", sounds a little rude?
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jmh asks : What is a "head's up", sounds a little rude? It is a common expression in US, I heard it first years ago in a business context ... basically it is a hint or warning calling your attention to an impending matter For example a co-worker might say to you : "Thought you'd like a head's up : the boss is considering an earlier deadline for your project." Or the receptionist might ring your intercom and say "Head's Up! The Publisher has arrived and is on the way to the newsroom!" It can also be used in a sports context ... say you're playing a game with several people and you become distracted... a team mate might yell "head's Up" to warn that a play was in motion. Rather than being rude -- although I fully understand that it could be thought rude by someone not familiar with the saying -- it is a good thing! Does this make sense to you? If not I am sure others will hop in and clarify further. Head's Up all you AWARDtalk guys and gals!  wow
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Bravo CapK for "cavillasurdaster". Certainly it is perfect to refer to the person suffering from the problem. Could we use "cavillasurdastery" for the problem itself?
I have to admit that I was not too happy with my original choices just because they didn't, in the words of the immortal xara, taste right.
Regarding feigning cavillasurdastery: That is cruel and unusual punishment but oh so effective. Surely there must be an effective counter strategy.
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I propose anironiaGood choice, Werner. And putting your suggestion together with tsuwm's suggests anasteistic for those who do not suffer from genteel laughing gas 
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absurd adds ab- as an intensifier to our root surdus in the sense of insufferable to the ear! I am really enamo(u)red with capturing this in the thing, so I would modify it slightly to cavillabsurdastery, and for feigning it I propose pseudocavillabsurdity.
/ca VIL ab sur DAS tery/?
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I was provisionally working with /ca VIL ab SUR das try/ but I think I like /ca VIL ab sur DAS tery/ better. It evokes the feeling of dastard but leaves the perpetrator with plausible deniability.
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ca VIL ab sur DAS tery
...but has the phatal phlaw that'll dis it for most: it gives little clue to what family of words it sits within...
...unless the intention is to reduce language to a code simply to exclude the outsiders, yo?
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...unless the intention is to reduce language to a code simply to exclude the outsiders, yo?
And the word for that is jargon, homeboy mav.
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I discovered that the modern Latin word used in rhetoric for irony is enantiosis...Excellent question indeed, Alex! tsuwm, is the above word also one of the roots of my old fave enantiodromia, hence carrying a sense of reversal? Shame that it sounds so much like an embarrassing medical condition "My doctor prescribed irony tablets."
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>is the above word also one of the roots of my old fave enantiodromia, hence carrying a sense of reversal?
yep, the Greek root can be rendered as enantios, opposite
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