The Innovative Usage Thread

[finlay]

yep

[Doch]

I apparently successfully entered the adjective "wauschig" [vaʊʃɪç] into the colloquial speech of my roommates, my friends and some of my coworkers. It describes the warm and fuzzy feeling one feels when watching something 萌え, as well as the feeling of having the need to watch something 萌え.

To be precise, I caught them using it with each other (while I was not part of the conversation) on several occasions.

[Nortaneous]

There's a sign up a few streets over advertising "plants 4 sell".

[Yng]

Sounds like a spelling error or a non-native - but please investigate further.

[Nortaneous]

Considering this neighborhood, it's probably a non-native, and I'd guess it's just part of an /E e/ merger.

[Jetboy]

Just wondering if anyone shares this with me: I have some some tendency to nasalize my /l/, both dark and light (though I think dark is worse). Usually it's fairly inconspicuous, but whenever often when I try speaking Spanish with someone, they hear /ona/ when I try to say <hola>, or <avno> when I try to say <hablo>; it seems worst before back vowels. My Bar-Mitzvah tutor heard the same with my Hebrew. Is this an English allophonic thing, or am I just weird?

[Nortaneous]

All it takes is the understanding that if you don’t behave in efficient and ethical ways, you become far more likely to eat consequences you don’t like.

...eat?

source: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2658

[Chargone]

All it takes is the understanding that if you don’t behave in efficient and ethical ways, you become far more likely to eat consequences you don’t like.

...eat?

source: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2658

eat as in 'eat dirt' or 'eat a bullet'... the former being to fail and faceplant when doing something physical, the latter being to be hit in the face by it...

in both cases, 'fail to avoid experiencing negative consiquences of events'. also related to 'eat the cost'... similar to 'take the hit'

i've encountered 'eat' like that quite often, actually. 'so, do you block or eat the damage?' or 'i'll eat the damage' in a game context... (though 'soak' is also used in this context, the difference being that soak implies that you can continue afterwards, eat only means that you can't or don't stop the thing taking place.)
basically implying that the bad stuff hits you in the face.

[Åge Kruger]

Helping you find healthy.

[linguoboy]

"Former NBA Referee Exposes NBA For Allowing Lebron James To Travel At The Miami Vs Bulls Game"

I initially misread that "at" as a "to", causing me to realise that we have acquired a new distinction here.

(For those confused: "Traveling" has a very specific meaning in basketball.)

[Civil War Bugle]

Someone said something interesting today and I made a note of it but unfortunately I can't quite remember it exactly. This coworker asked me to take a cart of boxes to the overstock area and to (maybe) "get off it" or something.

[linguoboy]

At the bar on Saturday, a buddy was going off on his ex's drug use, saying that it was as a result of that that "he got paws". I was racking my brains figuring what this could mean until it dawned on me that he meant "he got poz [i.e. HIV-positive]".

[äreo]

Helping you find healthy.

I notice an odd tendency in English to turn adjectives into nouns like that. A Carvel Ice Cream commercial once said "Its what happy tastes like." I've heard some others, but I don't remember now.

[äreo]

I´m back from the store with ¨process American cheese¨.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

Yesterday I heard "ninja" to mean "to (stealthily) steal something". Slightly confused for a bit, as I was thinking of the ninja posting meaning at first...

[Astraios]

Yesterday I heard "ninja" to mean "to (stealthily) steal something". Slightly confused for a bit, as I was thinking of the ninja posting meaning at first...

I've been hearing that for at least a couple of years.

[TaylorS]

I´m back from the store with ¨process American cheese¨.

That's probably the common lentition of syllable final /st/ to [s:]

[Zaris]

anyone else has family that say /sEjNg.wItS/ instead of /sand.wItS/?

[finlay]

Dunno, I'd have to check. I think my dad might have something like that (at least, with [ŋgw]), and I've definitely heard it before. It's just assimilation, nothing out of the ordinary.

I remember a sample question from an exam when I went to the Edinburgh university open day, which was to explain why in some accents "sandwich" and "language" rhyme.

[äreo]

I´m back from the store with ¨process American cheese¨.

That's probably the common lentition of syllable final /st/ to [s:]

Sorry, I meant <process American cheese>. It was spelt that way.

[TaylorS]

anyone else has family that say /sEjNg.wItS/ instead of /sand.wItS/?

I say [ˈsɛə̯mwɨ̈ʤ̥]

[Cedh]

July 18th is the 20th anniversary of the CONLANG listserv. To observe it some of the listmembers are planning a conlanger meetup thenish somewhere in the Chicago area (perhaps Hyde Park, though recommendations welcome). Any zbbers interested?

[maıráí]

Yesterday I heard "ninja" to mean "to (stealthily) steal something". Slightly confused for a bit, as I was thinking of the ninja posting meaning at first...

Ninjaing is an all-around stealthy act here; anything done quickly and without being noticed is 'ninja', esp. if it involves (awesome/showy/cool) quick movements. This is usually for grabbing something, but you can, for instance, "ninja onto the bus just as the doors close."


Also, ninjaing. Wow.

[tezcatlip0ca]

Am I the only GA speaker with intrusive R? The word "ninjaing" reminded me of that (/"nIndZ@.IN/, ["nI~ndZM\`=IN], [["nI*~n['d^Zr\+=IN+]]).

Too lazy to post the XcanSAMPA.

[Bob Johnson]

Am I the only GA speaker with intrusive R? The word "ninjaing" reminded me of that (/"nIndZ@.IN/, ["nI~ndZM\`=IN], [["nI*~n['d^Zr\+=IN+]]).

[ˈnɪ̃ndʒɰ̩˞ɪŋ]? Seriously? That's not GA.