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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 12 13 Go to page... Re: new words #6243 09/20/00 02:12 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass okay, specifically yomp was used in the Falklands to indicate a forced march with heavy packs; now I think it is used in Britain generally for hiking with a pack... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: new words #6244 09/20/00 07:42 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 Hump You might not wish to know what "hump" means here. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: new words #6245 09/20/00 09:34 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia >You might not wish to know what "hump" means here.< Oh, I think gutter-dwelling Jackie would wish to know! But the difference between 'yomp' and 'hump' (in Jackie's sense) is that yomp is intransitive and hump is transitive. I feel like heading back to 'Dried Words' - this is another case where the one word has more than one meaning inherent in it. To be hiking and to be heavily laden. No object required. One just yomps acros the countryside and an overfilled backpack appears as if by magic in the listener's (reader's) mind's eye. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: new words #6246 09/20/00 03:13 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky gutter-dwelling Jackie??? HEY!! I resemble that remark! And yes, jmh-who-posted-a-saying-I-am-too-emmbarrassed-to-even-type, I DO just so happen to know the other meaning! I think my husband picked up the term from the Vietnam veterans he used to work with. Ack--just re-checked this. You've got me stuttering with emm-barrassment! I'm not even going to change it! Gee-mi-NEE, I could NEVER tell anyone that!!! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: what new words do you like? #6247 09/26/00 06:24 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC I like sitcom, since it applies so well to myself. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: what new words do you like? #6248 09/27/00 10:30 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia >I like sitcom< I find it entertaining, but I haven't been aware of it being used in day-to-day speech. It still seems to be one that has to be 'explained' - I think this means it is still in the throes of birth as a word! (at least in this part of the world) Nimby, on the other hand, I think has made the crossover. And I like it because it reminds me of namby-pamby and I do think the nimbies are very namby pamby. (Like meat-eaters who can't bear to kill or gut or skin an animal - there's an inherent contradiction between what they want to enjoy and their unwillingness to endure what is needed to get there.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: what new words do you like? #6249 09/27/00 02:23 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass ...and nimby reminds of the also acronymic posslq /poz el cue/ (Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters) | There's nothing that I wouldn't do, | If you would be my Posslq, | You'd live for me and I for you | If you would be my Posslq. | ... | ... | . | . | . | We'd live forever, you and me, | In blessed posslq-ity! -Charles Osgood Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: what new words do you like? #6250 10/12/00 11:16 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England F FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike veteran F Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England I know this is very late in the day/thread but... I think "cybernetics" was a term invented by Turing, the computer genius/visionary and man largely responsible for breaking the Enigma code. He also first conceived of AIs, which is really where the phrase comes in to its own, as it is meant to mean "steersmanship".. or perhaps self-steering. Or something. Derived from an ancient Greek mythical figure I recall. And I remember the Cybermen too! Now, THEY used to have me hiding behind the couch. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: what new words do you like? #6251 10/13/00 05:37 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Yeti, Alpha Centauri, Leila, K9, Sarah Jane Smith: those were the days. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: what new words do you like? #6252 10/13/00 09:46 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 I like the Yeti best. It's funny, when you see re-runs it just looks like a load of cardboard boxes, a few egg cartons, a bit of tin foil and some sticky back plastic. It made Thunderbirds look hi-tec but at the time it was so scary. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 12 13 Go to page... 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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