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Posted by Lizzy Taylor on November 4, 2009, 9:08 am
Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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> Sartorresartus wrote:
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> Big Sis coined the term 'swaybelly' when she was quite small. Unkind,
> but descriptive...
In the same way that dialect is a language of a group of people and
regiolect is the language of a region and sociolect the language of a
social class, the language of a family or household is oikolect.
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> I preferred the stage directions: 'Enter a bloody child' has resonance,
> but I think we have friends who really appreciate 'Exit persued by a bear'!
"do you bite your thumb at me sir?", "no sir, but I do bite my thumb sir"
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>> I love words pilfered from sources unthought of and used in families.
>> They have a quality about them that always makes me smile.
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> We have a fair few in my family, largely Scots terms from my parents
> childhood playground speak. These are levened by Lincolnshire terms,
> and those of Scarborough.
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> The wonderful thing about the English language is that it allows us to
> preserve old words and meanings as well as develop new ones. And it's a
> bit of a Borg language, stealing and assimilating terms from any other
> language it encounters.
There are a few nice ones here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8338077.stm
Lizzy
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Posted by Sunny on November 4, 2009, 1:55 pm
My oldest son created "gription" for the quality of a gripping surface
having friction. Household word now. Kate, we always used "swaybelly"
when I was a kid. Texas is not so far from Scotland. ;)
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on November 4, 2009, 9:47 am
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> I love words pilfered from sources unthought of and used in families.
> They have a quality about them that always makes me smile.
Never come to visit us. You would never stop smiling and likely never
want to leave.
HBO ran a series in the early '90s called "Dream On". The main
character's thoughts were expressed via old movie, cartoon & tv
clips. It could easily have been me; my head just works that way
(it's a strange and sometimes scary place), and I grew up on the same
shows, cartoons, & movies. DW & I constantly use words, phrases,
expressions, one-liners, etc. from who knows where (anymore - we've
used them so long...) She picked it up from me, and since we've been
together since high school in the early '70s, what a long strange trip
it's been indeed...
Doc
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Posted by amy in CNY on November 4, 2009, 10:28 am
I think it was that toaster I received years ago that I gave as a
gift....hmm. regifted?
amy in CNY
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on November 2, 2009, 8:56 am
On Nov 2, 4:54=A0am, nightmi...@gmail.com (NightMist) wrote:
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> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:03:21 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Zachary Smith" wrote:
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> >...And who besides you and I know what the hell a mathom is
> >anyway? =A0:-)
> >Doc, from the mathom house at Michel Delving...
> Hmmm....Good question.
> Let us find out.
> It is just one of those words like "grok" or "muggle" that filled a
> niche lacking in english, and just became part of our standard house
> parlance.
Why not? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Doc
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