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[briantrumpet]

I was referencing your use of ratioed rather than Nate Silver.

Ah, OK. I'll find a different word next time to describe when someone thinks they are being really clever and perceptive, but everyone thinks they are just being a dick.

 

[briantrumpet]

BTW, I remembered the CS alter ego who forgot which account he was logged in as: mambo80 (I think).

 

[PurplePenguin]

Ah, OK. I'll find a different word next time to describe when someone thinks they are being really clever and perceptive, but everyone thinks they are just being a dick.

Given your command of English, I thought you might be able to find a better word.

 

[briantrumpet]

Given your command of English, I thought you might be able to find a better word.

Depends on whether you want the maximum number of people to understand you with the most concise expression, or to show off your vocabulary. I suppose I could have said "is getting continually ratioed an overwhelming number of replies from people disagreeing with his theses", but it's not quite as pithy. Maybe if I were addressing a judge rather than a cycling forum audience I might have used the verbose version to avoid the possibility of incomprehension from the judge.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Depends on whether you want the maximum number of people to understand you with the most concise expression, or to show off your vocabulary. I suppose I could have said "is getting continually ratioed an overwhelming number of replies from people disagreeing with his theses", but it's not quite as pithy. Maybe if I were addressing a judge rather than a cycling forum audience I might have used the verbose version to avoid the possibility of incomprehension from the judge.

Discredited or derided? Would they do? I needed to look up what ratioed meant, and I found it very unsatisfactory.

 

[briantrumpet]

Discredited or derided? Would they do? I needed to look up what ratioed meant, and I found it very unsatisfactory.

Both good words, but 'ratioing' currently has a specific meaning, and which meant exactly what I wanted to say. So I used it. And now your vocabulary is one word bigger, even if you don't like the word.

Merriam-Webster thinks it worth explaining for those who maybe aren't Twitter-aware, including High Court judges and penguins.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching-ratio-ratioed-ratioing.

Being interested in language includes seeing how language evolves as society evolves, and maybe embracing change, especially when it's useful.

6-7 isn't useful.

 

[First Aspect]

Ah, OK. I'll find a different word next time to describe when someone thinks they are being really clever and perceptive, but everyone thinks they are just being a dick.

Is doing a Kemi a decent start? Kemiing. Difficult to say. I've been Kemied. Better. I'd say it's a promising candidate.

 

[briantrumpet]

Other useful internet words are 'trolling' and 'sealioning', both recent additions to the lexicon. (Well, actually, 'trolling' has been around for quite a long time, in the sense of catching fish on a line with hooks, but the internet meaning is a derivation from that.) 'Ad hominem' is also useful, though its usage predates the internet, and looks posher.

 

[First Aspect]

We should find a use for Waffle bombing. It would be the perfect irony to apply it to pretending to be smarter than you actually are.

 

[briantrumpet]

We should find a use for Waffle bombing. It would be the perfect irony to apply it to pretending to be smarter than you actually are.

That was a new one on me, but I like the humour in labelling a modern phenomenon. If you did it brutally, I guess you'd be accused of being in the Waffle SS.

 

[First Aspect]

Kemi BadEnoch, or one of her teenage advisers, made it up for PMQs a week ago, hoping it would be as well liked as omnishambles.

It wasn't.

 

[matticus]

'trolling' has been around for quite a long time, in the sense of catching fish on a line with hooks

This is clearly deliberate trolling: trolling has nothing to do with catching actual fish. That's a completely different word; as I'm sure you know, shame on you!

 

[PurplePenguin]

Other useful internet words are 'trolling' and 'sealioning', both recent additions to the lexicon. (Well, actually, 'trolling' has been around for quite a long time, in the sense of catching fish on a line with hooks, but the internet meaning is a derivation from that.) 'Ad hominem' is also useful, though its usage predates the internet, and looks posher.

Trolling is fine in its original bating context. Its use in the media to mean insulting and abusive is disrespectful to people like Andy who put hours and hours into simply getting a reply.

Not keen on sealioning as a term.

Happy to have new words though e.g. FOMO and YOLO seem like perfectly acceptable acronyms. I know they are from a decade ago.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is clearly deliberate trolling: trolling has nothing to do with catching actual fish. That's a completely different word; as I'm sure you know, shame on you!

Debatable.

Origin and etymology​

There are competing theories of where and when "troll" was first used in Internet slang, with numerous unattested accounts of BBS and Usenet origins in the early 1980s or before.[23]

The English noun "troll" in the standard sense of ugly dwarf or giant dates to 1610 and originates from the Old Norse word "troll" meaning giant or demon.[24] The word evokes the trolls of Scandinavian folklore and children's tales: antisocial, quarrelsome and slow-witted creatures which make life difficult for travelers.[25][26] Trolls have existed in folklore and fantasy literature for centuries, and online trolling has been around for as long as the Internet has existed.[27]

In modern English usage, "trolling" may describe the fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat,[28] whereas trawling describes the generally commercial act of dragging a fishing net. Early non-Internet slang use of "trolling" can be found in the military: by 1972 the term "trolling for MiGs" was documented in use by US Navy pilots in Vietnam. It referred to use of "...decoys, with the mission of drawing...fire away..."[29] The contemporary use of the term is said to have appeared on the Internet in the late 1980s,[30][31] but the earliest known attestation according to the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1992.[32][33][34]

 

[briantrumpet]

Happy to have new words though e.g. FOMO and YOLO seem like perfectly acceptable acronyms. I know they are from a decade ago.

I think you've deliberately picked ones I don't know and will have to look up. They didn't come up in Grade 5 music theory when I was teaching it.