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#1 Nov 18 2014 at 10:13 AM Rating: Good
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If you recall, last years word was "selfie".

This years word is "vape" - as in 'what you do with electronic cigarettes'. Seems like a rather limited user group for that word.

The children's word of the year is 'minion'. Smiley: grin

LINKY

I wonder if the word 'link' has been given a new definition in the Oxford dictionary?
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#2 Nov 18 2014 at 10:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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"Vape" strikes me as less offensive than "selfie" so I approve. Also, stop changing language and get off my lawn.
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#3 Nov 18 2014 at 10:35 AM Rating: Excellent
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I have never heard the word "vape" used in a sentence.
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#4 Nov 18 2014 at 10:50 AM Rating: Good
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I have never heard the word "vape" used in a sentence.

Now there's one. Smiley: smile
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#5 Nov 18 2014 at 11:06 AM Rating: Excellent
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I had some undead Romanian ask me if I wanted to go vaping but I assumed that he wanted an accomplice for his sex crimes.


Hey-OH!

Edited, Nov 18th 2014 11:07am by Jophiel
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#6 Nov 18 2014 at 11:07 AM Rating: Good
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Looks almost like Elmer Fudd's speech impediment.
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#7 Nov 18 2014 at 11:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Vape is usually used as a verb like smoke, since that's what it's used to replace. It is also sometimes used to refer to the gear or juice being used, such as "My main vape these days is Ruyan in a Protank 2 and Sigelei mod".
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#8 Nov 18 2014 at 12:06 PM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
I have never heard the word "vape" used in a sentence.


I'm going to vape alderaan with ze Deathstar.
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#9 Nov 18 2014 at 1:18 PM Rating: Excellent
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Also, stop changing language and get off my lawn.
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#10 Nov 18 2014 at 5:03 PM Rating: Good
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One of the other candidates was "bae", so I guess you could say I'm relatively happy with this completely meaningless outcome.
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#11 Nov 18 2014 at 5:12 PM Rating: Good
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Bae is my favorite choice, though. Maybe because I know what it means in Dutch that makes it so funny when couples use it for each other.
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I had a "get off my lawn" moment last week.

My cousin (16? Maybe... I can't remember) posted on facebook about how school was "ratchet". I had to ask her what she meant by "ratchet". Cause I'm thinking of the word and how it applies to a description of something (school moves in one direction? I guess unless you get sent back a grade or something...)

Apparently it means "bad". I had to look it up after she told me that, and it appears to be derived from people misspelling "wretched".

So there a whole slew of words out there that kids are using these days that I have had zero exposure to. Made me realize it won't be long until I'm doing the "get off my lawn" more often.
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One of the other candidates was "bae", so I guess you could say I'm relatively happy with this completely meaningless outcome.

Well, I find it hard to argue with this.
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Apparently it means "bad". I had to look it up after she told me that, and it appears to be derived from people misspelling "wretched".

You should convince her that it came from Nurse Ratched

Edited, Nov 18th 2014 5:32pm by Jophiel
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#14 Nov 19 2014 at 9:08 AM Rating: Good
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It works for all intense porpoises.
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TirithRR wrote:
I had a "get off my lawn" moment last week.

My cousin (16? Maybe... I can't remember) posted on facebook about how school was "ratchet". I had to ask her what she meant by "ratchet". Cause I'm thinking of the word and how it applies to a description of something (school moves in one direction? I guess unless you get sent back a grade or something...)

Apparently it means "bad". I had to look it up after she told me that, and it appears to be derived from people misspelling "wretched".

So there a whole slew of words out there that kids are using these days that I have had zero exposure to. Made me realize it won't be long until I'm doing the "get off my lawn" more often.


It's the new word for ghetto.
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#16 Nov 19 2014 at 9:29 AM Rating: Decent
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You should convince her that it came from Nurse Ratched

Was an existing concept long before the rise of "ratchet". Certainly lame enough of a pun to fit Kesey's slapping at the keyboard while high on LSD style of 'writing'.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/character-analysis/nurse-ratched


The name Ratched is also a pun of "ratchet," which is a both a verb and a noun for a device that uses a twisting motion to tighten bolts into place. This pun serves a greater metaphorical purpose in Kesey's hands, as Ratched manipulates the patients and twists them to spy on one another or expose each others' weaknesses in group sessions. The ratchet, as critic Ronald Wallace notes, is also "like a ratchet wrench she keeps her patients 'adjusted,' but like a ratchet, a gear in the Combine, she is herself mechanically enmeshed." The most comic reading of her name, however, is as a pun on the word "wretched."
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#17 Nov 19 2014 at 5:58 PM Rating: Good
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I'm just going to assume it's because modern teenagers don't know how to spell and "ratchet" is what some auto correct text messaging started putting instead of what ever bastardized spelling of "wretched" they used.
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#18 Nov 20 2014 at 6:22 AM Rating: Good
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I only came up with Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank fame.

I never quite figured out what kind of animal he was supposed to be....
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#19 Nov 20 2014 at 8:29 AM Rating: Good
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I figured he was a squirrel.
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#20 Nov 20 2014 at 9:16 AM Rating: Good
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He's a lombax, which is a more cat-like creature. Fun-fact: Their females apparently don't have tails.
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