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Zompist

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:02 pm
by bbbosborne
what does "zompist" mean, and where did the name come from?

Re: Zompist

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:40 am
by finlay
One who zomps

Re: Zompist

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:59 am
by linguoboy
That sounds more like a zomper than a zompist, tbh

Re: Zompist

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:26 pm
by Civil War Bugle
An adherent of zompism. Zoological Ontontological Metarealist Phenominalism, to expand the acronym. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a better explanation of this ideological viewpoint than I could provide, or Salmoneus could probably provide an entertaining ten paragraph summary. I am agnostic vis a vis the merits of zompism versus maoism versus trotskyism versus the views of Walter Bagehot.

Re: Zompist

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:17 pm
by Ser
What would the verb "to zomp" mean, though? Never seen it before.

Let's check what Urban Dictionary says...

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oh gods

Re: Zompist

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:35 pm
by Travis B.
Cannot unread.

Re: Zompist

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:46 pm
by mèþru
It's also the Dutch word for swamp.

Re: Zompist

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:03 pm
by linguoboy
mèþru wrote:It's also the Dutch word for swamp.
Zompist = one who lives outside the dikes?

Re: Zompist

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:17 pm
by So Haleza Grise

Re: Zompist

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:21 am
by alynnidalar
Serafín wrote:Let's check what Urban Dictionary says...
That was your first mistake.

Re: Zompist

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:24 am
by mèþru
Serafín wrote:Let's check what Urban Dictionary says...
Seriously though, why?

Re: Zompist

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:32 pm
by kodé
i remember reading on his site a long, long time ago that "zompist" was a type of humor he invented as a kid. corroboration?

Re: Zompist

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:43 am
by zompist
kodé wrote:i remember reading on his site a long, long time ago that "zompist" was a type of humor he invented as a kid. corroboration?
Yeah, that's pretty much it. Though just to be fair, the word was invented by a friend of mine.