#fun with language
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I'll never use thingamajig again, I like these other ones better.
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How it feels when I'm caressing you with my words.
From The Resourceful Little Consort by Antstudio, NAK, and Yemaro
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Fun with language, anyone?
#I can't remember if I posted this already#if I did it was years ago#anyways here it is#I crack myself up#fun with language#my comics#fighting with#'hit that mofo with another mofo'#who are they fighting?#no idea!#not the guy with the sword#that is one uncooperative weapon#as soon as he goes to swing it#it'll fall out of his hand#and stab him in the foot#I could make a whole webcomic out of this kind of shenanigans#I am wisely electing to go to bed instead#enjoy
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words I think should be used more.
Lustrum; a period of 5 years. useful for sounding cool and cuts down on the amount of times you have to say “twice in a decade,” “Every 5 years,” etc. 15 years? that’s 3 lustrums or 3 lustra baybee
occlude; to stop, close up, or otherwise obstruct, AND, to hide from view. useful any time you’re tired of saying “hidden” or want to add more weight to the fact you’re jamming something up. does not share a root with the word occult but they DO go hand in hand.
rubenesque; while the word literally only means, “of, relating to, or suggestive of the painter Rubens or his works” [citation], it holds the connotation of a usually feminine person who is fat and beautiful. good for when people are fat and beautiful, and a good way to describe yourself if you’re the above and you like it :]. also good for character description
Transmogrify; to transform in a surprising or magical manner. not sure how this would be used outside of fiction, but it’s fun to say.
Mollify; to calm someone down from anger or to ease anxiety. Not to be confused with:
Mellify; to embalm in honey.
Crepuscular; of or pertaining to twilight, especially animals that are only active during the twilight! Think this could also find great use for metaphor, for someone or something that exists at some kind of cusp or liminal space.
Interface; while, yes, it does refer to computer interfaces, it can also refer to any two subjects interacting with one another.
please add on more words that you would like to share that you think should be used more frequently!
#fun with language#writing reference#lingustics#doesnt have to just be English either! lustrum is literally co-opted from Latin.
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Never mind the political/religious leader distinction, what I want to know is whether the plural is Dalai Lamas or Dalais lama.
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In light of today's events, I need Alan Burgon to read the credits of an upcoming @re-dracula episode, in character as Van Helsing. And at the very end, I need him to say
An FM—of Blood—Production.
#pretty please#i need this in my life#i need earth to be a place where this exists#re: dracula#october 5#van helsing translating the talk at the docks was just *chef's kiss*#so great#abraham van helsing#fun with language
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This is more of a joke than a poem, but it took me about half an hour to create the video, and that's very much the right level of effort for today. And anyway it does rhyme and scan. I chose Gulf War images more or less at random, as the most recent war in which Western armies had a machine-guns-versus-spears level of technological advantage against an adversary that tried to fight open-field battles of formed regular units; and Bergen dialect because it comes most naturally to me, and also allows the formation "ha'kje" which formally-correct Oslo Norwegian would stiffen into "har ikke", spoiling the scansion.
Norwegian text:
Samme ka,
så har dog vi
maskingevær.
Det ha'kje de.
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What to Call a Bunch of Vampires?
What's a good collective noun for a group of vampires? I don't mean an 'official' group, like a coven or a family or a house or whatever. I just mean a generic collective noun, like a murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens, or a parliament of owls, etc.
I'll start:
A symphony?
A nocturne?
An occultation?
An exsanguination?
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Rejected phrases that we here in the Tough Guy Community tried before settling on “Talk shit, get hit”:
Talk trash, get thrashed
Talk crap, get slapped
Talk shite, start a fight
Talk smack, get whacked
Make chatter, get battered
Be a dick, get bricked
Cause a tiff, get biffed
If you prattle, prepare for battle
Start the sass, I kick your ass
Be a clown, get smacked down
Get a rise, get marmalized
Raise heck, get wrecked
Act rude, get hewed
Yap and yammer, get the hammer
Keep tweeting, get a beating
Have heated discussion, get a concussion
Cause dudgeon, get bludgeoned
Talk fight make fight punch big talk to fist hit face
Tell jokes, get choked
Break the silence, incur violence
Act like a lout, get knocked out
Talk rubbish, get smashed to the floor, all your limbs broken, your skull curbstomped into the pavement with steel-toed workboots, and all your cerebrospinal fluid wrung from the twitching wreckage of your scrawny, insipid form by the destructive force of primal wrath your words of provocation have awoken within my iron fists that have been hardened by decades of constant training and battle into lethal weapons unmatched on this earth by any mortal man while all witnesses to my brutal victory bow in awe and reverence to my incredible prowess in battle
Ruin the revel, get fucking leveled
Make a post, you’re toast
Talk garbage, cause carnage
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🚙 = samochód
🛩 = samolot
🛳 = samopływ
Czyż nie?🙃
No dobrze, to teraz poważnie:
Skoro pierwszy na świecie pojawił się:
🛳 statek
(że niby taki stateczny)
no to analogicznie:
🚙 ruchacz
🛩 bzykacz
No i co zrobisz?💁
#polish language#polish#język polski#linguist humor#I don't know what's the origin of english word ''car'' but in polish it's literally ''self-propelled''#analogically the plane is named ''self-flying''#so why the ship is not ''self-swimming''?#(that's probably what AI would name them🤪)#but original name for the ship is ''statek'' (means stable)#so analogically the car could have been named ''mover'' and the plane ''buzzer'' (both indicating they're meant to f*ck)#fun with language#samochód#samolot#statek#polska#polski#głupie nie
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"This is a world we want to avoid," said Peters.
(it's just a little sentence at the end of this article but it stood out to me because it's not something we usually say. it sounds like we are in a swerving vehicle and trying to avoid hitting an obstacle - that obstacle being a certain kind of world.)
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An isekai conversation
"Hey, can my name for the wizard duels be Wild Card? Because I do stuff that I learned from Earth TV shows, and they won't see any of it coming?"
"What does that even mean? Feral square?"
"Haha, that's even better. If you guys really don't have card games either, we care going to have a talk after these duels are done."
#this part didn't fit in the story I just wrote#but I want to put it somewhere#so here you go#isekai#magic#fun with language#wild cards#my writing#the story is a longer version of a different post I made a while back#gonna submit it to a 10-minute play contest#with me luck
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I love phrases that imply or euphemise romantic/sexual or simply uncommon attraction. some of my favorites:
Wanting for ardently
Wishes to keep [x] company
Possessed of a great hunger for
Blinded by hearts ‘n’ stars
Starstruck
full-hearted
Holds a particular fondness for/of
Seeks an opening into the business of becoming a gentleman caller [lady caller, noble caller, gentlefolk caller, change the noun as suitable]
#Please feel free to RB with your own additions and peculiar euphemisms#Euphemisms#fun with language
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Today I got a workout in, by workin' out.
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