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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...
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Hump
You might not wish to know what "hump" means here.
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>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.
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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!!!
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I like sitcom, since it applies so well to myself. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
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>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.)
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...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
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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.
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Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Yeti, Alpha Centauri, Leila, K9, Sarah Jane Smith: those were the days.
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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.
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