Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
Lemmy
Many languages have it. English for some reason does not use it
In my country we also have a word for that and it’s always used when referring to overmorrow.
Hungarian as well. Tomorrow = holnap, overmorrow = holnapután. You can also stack the ”után" if you so wish, like holnapután-után. But more than that and you will get some curious looks from others :)
In polish we do prefix po-. Jutro being tomorrow. Overmorrow would be pojutrze, after tomorrow, where you can stack one or two more, but ye more for comedic effect :)
Perchance!
To sleep, perchance to dream. And in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!
Hamlet (hopefully I didn’t get it too wrong)
You can’t just say “perchance”!
Perchance?
“Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve.”
Internecine, meaning “destructive to both sides in a conflict”.
Petty bickering like that divorce where they had a judge adjudicate the distribution of their beanie baby collection was internecine.
As soon as I read “destructive to both sides in a conflict” I immediately thought of that case. And then you referenced it 😂
Vituperative. Means vicious.
Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.
I only know the term from Disc World, is that a real world term or just one of the many whimsical terms Pratchett coined in the books
Indubitably!
It means most certainly, beyond questioning.
And it’s fun to say!
Ah, I grew up listening to Adventures In Odyssey and one character said that all the time. Beautiful word.
I like that it’s root is fairly plain to see.
That’s un-doubt-able - indubitable.
Albeit.
It’s German but ‘Rucksackriemenquerverbindungsträger’, the thing between the straps of a backpack that you can connect to lighten the load on your shoulders.
I made the word up but I use it pretty often.
fuck germany
That’s a lot of people, I doubt you have the stamina
are you saying i won’t do it
I mean, I guess you have the name for it
What did Germany ever do to you?
This is lemmy so they’re probably angry Germany isn’t bombing Israel like Iran
The chest strap?
Meant to say in my Nero Wolfe comment - there’s a Lemmy community for interesting words at !wotd@lemmy.world - it’s not very busy, but still.
Grandiloquent/sesquipedalian. It’s what you get when you use everything in this thread ₍^ >ヮ<^₎ .ᐟ.ᐟ
/s
- Paramour
It sounds fancy, but means a casual lover. A fuck buddy. A friend with benefits. Though it can also carry the implication of being an out-of-wedlock lover, as it dates back to a time where having a fuck buddy was almost certainly a sign of married infidelity.
- Kith
Means one’s friends and other people they are close to that aren’t family. Often paired with “kin”. Kith and kin. Friends and family.
A paramour is an “other lover”. Para = beside, amour = love. It’s not a casual fuck buddy, it’s your cheating partner. I’m surprised to hear you say it’s unknown as a word these days? Seems like just a normal word to me, albeit one I’m happy to go without using as cheaters suck.
Interesting. The only two references I’ve ever heard to Paramour are the band and the achievement in Mass Effect. I’m now wondering if the devs of that series knew exactly what it meant (infidelity) because you get the achievement for having any relationship. Maybe it’s because you can’t remain loyal to your original partner to get it in all three games with one playthrough.
Right, I think that achievement only happens in the sequals.
I don’t remember for sure about the old games, but the Legendary Edition has one for each game.
I use paramour, usually to describe an infidelity situation. No one under 35 knows what it is.
Wait did you just coin that? That’s fucking brilliant /s
Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn’t use this term constantly or anything?
Cory Doctorow coined it: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism “enshittification” in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.
It was coined by Cory Doctorow.
Because there was no /s - no they didn’t, it’s been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
lol I didn’t think I needed the
/sbecause it was dripping with sarcasm.The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.
Sarcasm isn’t “pretending to be stupid” imo
This particular instance was certainly pretending to be ill-informed, so
Well ignorance isn’t stupidity, but also it was just SO obvious. Enshittification is one of the most used new words I’ve ever seen.
Since we’re talking about it, and I really like the guy’s work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.
I actually dislike that term a lot.
It’s like spunkgargleweewee. It seems immature and makes me feel more dismissive towards the argument. Maybe that also has to do with it being a catch all term and people seem less willing to give specific examples of how things are declining in quality.
spunkgargleweewee
You’re claiming that is a term people use?
I believe the term originated with Yahtzee during the military and tactical shooter crazy in the 2010s. It referred to games that paraded players through various spectacles and rooms full of chest high walls, until enough time had passed to call it a campaign.
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Omg no
You better be standin on bidness
C’mon. They need to invent words for the clique-signalling .
It’s very fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen
Fetch never took off though.
spunkgargleweewee
Ah, an individual of culture.
