Word of the week..

[Ian H]

Should have known really. I’d call it a corner myself.

 

[sodthisforfun]

"da" is vietnamese for skin. "je vous" is french for "I you", which makes no sense.

'da' means different things in a few languages. Why choose Vietnamese?

 

[Notch7]

'da' means different things in a few languages. Why choose Vietnamese?

I think Himmie in his latest guise is trying to make himself more glamorous by implying he is from Vietnam.

I thought Jaywick was in Essex not Vietnam

 

[sodthisforfun]

I think Himmie in his latest guise is trying to make himself more glamorous by implying he is from Vietnam.

I thought Jaywick was in Essex not Vietnam

Oh yeah, just saw the flag on his profile.
Oh dear... he really does come over as desperate when it's as clear as day it's himmie.

 

[Deleted member 63160]

Oh yeah, just saw the flag on his profile.
Oh dear... he really does come over as desperate when it's as clear as day it's himmie.

If that is Himmy, which seems likely, it's really quite sad. He's proper nutz.

 

[JohnD]

'da' means different things in a few languages.

Yes.

 

[mrcrow]

I thought it s good idea after seeing this post:



Another I have seen on a link posted here, some apparently clever people writing an entry in a medical journal (that made no sense), they used the word seroprevalence which I thought was a good one.

How many of us google these words to understand them and how many google them to use them?

some of the longest words are

macdonaldschocolatebiscuits
and
dustbinlid

 

[durhamplumber]

Well we already know that given the post where you remarked upon it as if it was a word outwith your experience.

Not everyone is as challenged as you.

You do talk utter bolox,sheds,,,ROFL...now dictionary definitions are wrong but your word definition is still correct, what a piece of weird work you are.Electrocution has never ever meant exclusively,a fatal electric shock.One can be,and always has been the case,you can be electrocuted and not die.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Electrocution has never ever meant exclusively,a fatal electric shock.

Yes.

It.

Has.

One can be,and always has been the case,you can be electrocuted and not die.

No - not always.

Only since ignoramuses like you started to misuse the word.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/electrocution
http://www.vaguelyinteresting.co.uk/tag/etymology-of-electrocute/
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/electrocution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocution

You're not very good at this, are you.

 

[EFLImpudence]

You do talk utter bolox,sheds,,,ROFL...now dictionary definitions are wrong but your word definition is still correct, what a piece of weird work you are.Electrocution has never ever meant exclusively,a fatal electric shock.One can be,and always has been the case,you can be electrocuted and not die.

If I were to say to you that 'execute' does not necessarily mean to kill but it also means just to injure, what would you reply?

 

[noseall]

If I were to say to you that 'execute' does not necessarily mean to kill but it also means just to injure, what would you reply?

I'd say it also means to 'implement'. However, in context to ending life - it means to kill.
Electrocute means to kill using electricity. Whos said it doesn't?

 

[JohnD]

What does "nice" mean?

Note my use of the word "mean."

I chose not to ask "how is the word defined in the particular dictionary I have in my hand?"

 

[SirGalahad]

James O Brian comes out with big words live on air to bamboozle callers when they get the better of him. Very clever as he uses this trick, and it works.

It doesn't work so well on social media as we have as you say Google, and all the time in the world to look it up. Unlike live Radio.

If he uses words on air and the caller doesn't ask what they mean then we can assume they understand what it means.

Your argument is clutching at straws as usual.

 

[SirGalahad]

Here is a word for Bodd to Google, as it seems there are a lot of tricky people out there.

Legerdemain

 

[Bodd]

Here is a word for Bodd to Google, as it seems there are a lot of tricky people out there.

If he uses words on air and the caller doesn't ask what they mean then we can assume they understand what it means.

Legerdemain

What does this word mean?