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Merriam-Webster Dictionary | Merriam-Webster
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#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

I ran across this new to me word last week. I'm trying to jot words down as I stumble upon them. Not sure I would call this one weird but I found it interesting and thought you might too.

A toast to weird, wonderful and interesting words!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Happy Wednesday!

CBee Weird is used pretty loosely 😊 Great word!! 4d
TheSpineView @CBee 👍🤩🌞 4d
BookmarkTavern That one is fun to say! 4d
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UnderworldAmusements
Lucifer's Lexicon | L. a. Rollins
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Dilara
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Probably of limited interest to non-French people, but the baccalaureate philosophy exam started at 8 this morning, and the essay questions are now out:

Vocational stream
Is Nature hostile to Man
Is the artist master of their own work

Academic stream
Can science satisfy our need for truth
Does the State owe us anything

Inspired or not?

Thinking of all those teenagers sweating on their exam papers in many different parts of the world...

Kitta As a scientist, I‘m definitely interested in these questions! I feel that science can give us the answers and can tell us the truth, but that maybe we won‘t reach them in our lifetimes and we‘ll have to wait for the next generation to understand. It‘s a frustrating reality that progress can be slow. 5mo
IuliaC These are very relevant questions 5mo
SaunteringVaguelyDownwards "Is the artist master of their own work?" is taking all sorts of new nuance with AI! 5mo
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Dilara @Kitta Slow and every new discovery or insight brings about new questions! It's neverending... 5mo
Dilara @IuliaC Definitely! 5mo
Dilara @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards Oh, I hadn't thought of that 😁 5mo
Dilara For whoever is interested, Le Monde newspaper published essay examples for some of these questions: https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/live/2024/06/18/en-direct-bac-philo-2024-un-enseig... 5mo
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Sace
Merriam-Webster Dictionary | Merriam-Webster
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Pedantry alert!
Over the last few months I‘ve noticed a linguistic shift that is driving me insane. I first noticed on podcasts (hence the picture), but I‘ve even noticed in work emails (written by educators no less). There seems to be a trend to shorten words. “Priorities” becomes “priors”. “Comparisons” and “Competitions” both become “comps” (which previously was used for “comprehensive exams”). ⬇️

Sace In each case it wasn‘t exactly clear which word they were abbreviating. I find this unacceptable. Educators and bookish podcasters especially shouldn‘t take shortcuts. (edited) 6mo
Sace PS: I find it doubly annoying in speech because there‘s no character limit when speaking. 🙄 6mo
Amor4Libros Agree!! 6mo
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kspenmoll I totally agree! 6mo
Mollyanna Absolutely agree! 6mo
Sace @Amor4Libros @kspenmoll @Mollyanna Thanks for supporting my moment of annoyance 😂 6mo
Clare-Dragonfly Wow! I haven‘t encountered those to my knowledge but they sound very annoying! Those words already have meanings that are not really distinct enough from the new ones. 6mo
Sace @Clare-Dragonfly I just don‘t get it. 6mo
MoniqueReads305 I agree with most of this except comps. I thinks that's publishing language bleeding into education through social media.. When authors sell their books to publishers they provide comps. That's why you'll hear stuff like Little Women meets Lord of the Files. 6mo
dabbe This retired high school English teacher agrees 💯! 💙🩵💙 6mo
Hooked_on_books “Priors” for priorities?!? I get the desire to shorten words sometimes, but that changes it to a completely different word and thus the meaning as well! Accuracy and clear communication is far more important than shortening a few words! 6mo
Hooked_on_books And that‘s absolutely not pedantry! 6mo
julesG What about speakers of English as a second/foreign language? That's so wrong. Don't make it harder for us. Language is evolving, of course, but that's just sloppy. An email is not a handwritten letter that takes ages to copy, 6mo
julesG ... It's just lazy and confusing. 6mo
Sace @MoniqueReads305 Ah! Thanks for the information. It was in fact a bookish podcast that used “comps” so knowing that bit of publishing language makes sense now. 6mo
Sace @julesG absolutely agree! And that kind of usage doesn‘t make it into dictionaries either (at least it would take a bit of searching to find). 6mo
Sace @Hooked_on_books Right? I‘m seeing/hearing it more than I would like. 😂 6mo
Sace @dabbe 🩵 I can imagine how infuriating this kind of thing would be for English teachers. I don‘t think students have started doing this (yet). 6mo
rwmg I haven't come across those yet. But I have come across comp as a verb meaning, as far as I can make out, (of a business) give somebody something free to pacify them after they make a complaint. 6mo
Sace @rwmg oh yes! That‘s another common one that (I think) most of the general public knows. 6mo
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AroundTheBookWorld
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Well Florida has finally lost it. It has banned over 1,600 books including several dictionaries. The reason for banning the dictionaries is because, they contain “Sexual Content”. The list of banned books is in the link below ⬇️ 📚📖

https://pen.org/escambia-county-florida-banned-books-list/#:~...

#StopTheBookBans #BannedBooks #BannedBook 📚📖

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Tonton
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I love dipping into the dictionary 😎❣️🌟

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psalva
Greek Dictionary (Collins Gem) | Harry T. Hionides
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Another Greek word for #weirdwordsWednesday . Οίκος is the Ancient Greek word for home. The modern word is σπίτι (spiti- gives us hospitality). The ancient root can be found in modern Greek words like οικονομία (economy), οικολογία (ecology), and οικογένεια (family, or the generation of the house). Oh, and the yogurt company as well (no clue why…). #weirdwords #mybigfatgreekwedding #kimono @CBee

CBee Love it 😍 12mo
dabbe A yowza word! 🤩 12mo
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psalva
Greek Dictionary (Collins Gem) | Harry T. Hionides
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I haven‘t been doing as much reading lately. So, for this week‘s #weirdwords, I‘m going to dip into my Greek language class again, since it‘s taking up most of my brain space anyway. The word on my mind is περίπτερο which is the word for kiosk. What‘s interesting is it‘s an architectural word that has been in use since antiquity and can describe the Parthenon, an open building surrounded by columns. #weirdwordWednesdays @CBee

CBee I used to work at a kiosk in college. When Waldenbooks was still a thing 😂 13mo
psalva Cool! If I‘m not mistaken I think I have some Waldenbooks bookmarks somewhere in my stack of bookmarks. I‘m not sure I ever visited one. The town I grew up in had a Borders, however. @CBee were they owned by the same company? (edited) 13mo
Reggie @CBee did you do the calendar one at XMas time? @psalva you remind me of the dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Lol. Kimono….. I enjoy these posts. 13mo
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CBee @Reggie oh my GOSH how‘d you know??? I totally did 😂😂😂 omg it was so boring too 😂 13mo
CBee @psalva I think Borders bought Waldenbooks? But they‘ve both gone out of business now, I believe 🤷‍♀️ 13mo
psalva @Reggie 👀 That‘s definitely what I‘m turning into! Oh no! Keep me away from windex! 13mo
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