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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 There's a name for this #21027 03/03/01 11:22 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve OP Carpal Tunnel OP Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA While attending the King County Bar Association's 2001 Bench-Bar Conference today, my mind slipped away from the weighty subjects on which a splendid array of speakers held forth, and concentrated instead on how they chewed up the English language. Joseph D, Lehman, the Secretary of the State Department of Corrections (which runs all the prisons) used two interesting words: "anominity" -- which is, I suppose, a state of mental and emotion upset resulting from a loss of values -- and "phenomenom" -- which may mean a word used to describe an observable event. The Hon. Michael J. Fox, Judge of the King County Superior Court, used the word "crooshible" to descibe a situation which puts one to the test. There is a name for this. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21028 03/04/01 01:55 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York internal sort-of Spoonerism? [unabashedly slouching toward OldHandhood] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21029 03/04/01 02:09 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass ASp, there's another way to pile up the posts: variations on a theme; to wit - OldHand, ColdHand, CoolHand(Luke), SlowHand(Clapton), etc. HTH. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21030 03/04/01 02:14 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >there is a name for this. sounds like mala praxis to me. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21031 03/04/01 03:22 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England A high court judge here some weeks ago accused a convicted something-or-other of "machismacho". Seems to me that's a really bad dose of machismo. Perhaps if judges make law, they also believe they can make language? The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21032 03/04/01 06:37 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 How about malneologism? or caconeologism? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21033 03/04/01 07:58 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Rapunzel enthusiast Rapunzel enthusiast Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania How about ignorance? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21034 03/04/01 08:42 PM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 116 Jerusalem, ISRAEL Shoshannah member Shoshannah member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 116 Jerusalem, ISRAEL Father Steve - I wouldn't say there's anything wrong, exactly, only question where these guys were when the earthquake struck! Could be that portion of the brain which regulates word formation (or something extremely scientific and biological like that) was sent slightly askew and hasn't yet recovered? And there IS a word for this. I believe it is malapropism even if unintentional!?! What do I win? [feeling better about herself emoticon] Or was that from the other post? Shoshannah suzanne pomeranz, tourism consultant jerusalem, israel - suztours@gmail.com Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21035 03/04/01 08:51 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 The word malapropism originally referred to misuse of words by ignorant persons. Father Steve is giving examples of atrocities committed by educated persons. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: There's a name for this #21036 03/04/01 09:02 PM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 116 Jerusalem, ISRAEL Shoshannah member Shoshannah member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 116 Jerusalem, ISRAEL In reply to: Father Steve is giving examples of atrocities committed by educated persons. emphasis mine Okay - but the real question here is the 'educational level' of those in question - after all - they are lawyers, judges and such... right? Of course, right! Yeah yeah yeah - no remarks - "some of my best friends are lawyers" Shoshannah suzanne pomeranz, tourism consultant jerusalem, israel - suztours@gmail.com Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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