The Awesome Words Thread

[MeechMunchie]

I don't have anything against colloquialisms, it's just saying them wrong in a way that completely reverses the meaning while continuing to use them in the same context that I don't like.

[OANST]

I don't have anything against colloquialisms, it's just saying them wrong in a way that completely reverses the meaning while continuing to use them in the same context that I don't like.

Christ, we haven't been talking about your thing for ages.

[MeechMunchie]

I don't like to cause an argument and then completely fail to join in.

[Nate]

Actually, I have. I've heard "Hold your position" used to mean "stay put", and "hold down the position" used to mean "defend the position". Either way, it doesn't matter, though. That's not the point. I'm not arguing that it doesn't work as a metaphor, or that one is more widely accepted as a metaphor. I'm saying that the British usage of it without the "down" makes no more literal sense than the American usage with the word "down". And anyone saying different is either lying to themselves because of some strange insistence that their colloquialisms are better than our colloquialisms, or lying because they don't want this video that they like to be wrong, or they are just plain stupid.

My point was simply that the word 'hold' has one more definition than you are aware of and thus 'hold the position' does make literal sense whilst 'hold down' does not.

[Mr. Bungle]

Lucid

[Phylum]

Tranquill. Dusk.

[enchilado]

'hold the position' does make literal sense whilst 'hold down' does not.

It does if the position is one where you're on top.

[MeechMunchie]

'Hold' can also mean 'keep'. Like 'placeholder' or 'I hold the rights to this film'. I don't really see the confusion here.

Melanoma & Punctual.

[OANST]

At what point did the word hold come to mean "defend", though? Again, I'm not debating that the word is used in those ways. I'm saying that it isn't the literal translation, and if it isn't the literal translation then it all comes down to you and I knowing what it means because of popular usage, which is the same with "holding down the fort".

[Phylum]

Hold the fort = keep the fort = do not lose the fort = defend the fort.

[MA]

i fucking shit on the fort.

how do you lot like that? huh? do you like me shitting all over your debate? yeah?

[Phylum]

You sure told us.

[ziggy]

i fucking shit on the fort.

how do you lot like that? huh? do you like me shitting all over your debate? yeah?

To be honest this is really the most interesting thing in this thread right now.

[Phylum]

I'm offended by that.

[ziggy]

Well man, I contributed a little to this little corner of the forum, but it's pretty much like reading the dictionary for fun.

[MeechMunchie]

Absurd & Naturalist.

[Phylum]

Chthonic.

[MarsMudoken]

Philistine, and inordinate.

[Mr. Bungle]

Incarnate.

[Mac Sirloin]

Well man, I contributed a little to this little corner of the forum, but it's pretty much like reading the dictionary for fun.

When I was ten some neighborhood girl and other friends taunted me by saying that. I punched her in her face.

[Elmatto753]

That's better than punching her in someone else's face.

[Dynamithix]

True.

[ziggy]

Punch me in tha FACE

[MA]

DO IT, KASTERE

FUCKING DO ITDLJGNDSIGKHDGSD

[ziggy]

Hey I was backing you up, what gives?

[MarsMudoken]

Back on topic, propinquity.

[STM]

Quantity and Brimstone...recently fucktard seems to pass my lips a lot as well.

[LDG519]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis It's a real word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumon...olcanoconiosis

[Nate]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis It's a real word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumon...olcanoconiosis

The 45-letter word was coined to serve as the longest English word

Meh.

[Elmatto753]

That was made a heck of a long time ago. I'm surprised no-one's come up with a longer one since then. We need a word for when something is so bad it's good.