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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: DoctorBeaver on 06/02/2008 11:54:33
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On my local radio station recently the Breakfast Show presenter asked listeners to text him their list of words that are no longer in common use (1 listener poignantly suggested "please" and "thank you"). Having an outstanding command of English vocabulary (indubitably, a veritable lexical mage!), I had a few to send him.
But it got me thinking... some of those words are wonderful & it's a shame they're no longer used.
So, which words that have dropped out of favour would you like to see brought back into use? Maybe we could choose 1 word in particular from our lists and start a campaign to bring it back into use. Chris & Co could use it on the TNS radio Show as part of our campaign [:)]
Here are some of my suggestions:
Scallywag
Nincompoop
Rapscallion
Rascal
Brigand
Waif
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Could we please recover the terms for second person plural and second person singular (a distinction that used to be enshrined the you and thee).
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George - I believe thee is the accusative (objective) case of the 2nd person singular.
In that case we should re-use thou, thy & thine also. And to do it properly, we should resort to correct conjugation of verbs to match.
To whit (all 2nd person singular):
you have - thou hast
you do - thou doest
you are - thou art
you will - thou wilt
CHRIS! Are you taking note for the radio show? [;D]
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OH.. In thine own heart be true and wise and loving!
Thou art so beautiful that thee brilliance from thou eyes, light a path for thine soul to follow straight into thy heart!
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Oh you beat me.. LOL But you have my original line of verse from yours truly on the second part!! I hope I got them all right! LOL!!
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Your use of "thee" is the archaic form of "the".
"Thine eyes" (for various grammatical reasons)
"Lights a path" not "Light a path"
"Thy soul"
But not bad for a Yank [:P]
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LOL.. I knew I would blow it! LOL... Mucho Gracias for the correction... LOL.. A yank indeed...LOL
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De nada, Gringo [:D]
P.S. Esta muchAS gracias
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Merci! LOL!
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C'est mon plaisir, cherie [:X]
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""smail"
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I want to see the word poppycock used more often [;)]
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I want to see the word poppycock used more often [;)]
Whats poppycock????
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I want to see the word poppycock used more often [;)]
Whats poppycock????
It means nonsense [;D]
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Poppycock is great!
How about ""tallywagger"
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I want to see the word poppycock used more often [;)]
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Poppycock is great!
How about ""tallywager"
[???]
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balderdash
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balderdash
Oh yes!
So what about piffle or codswallop?
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Poppycock is great!
How about "tallywagger"
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In some parts of the country I hear it was called a Talleywhacker, Where I was raised it was a "tally wagger" = A part of the male anatomy, but growing up we used it in reference to a large animals Penis. Like a horse or such animal! LOL I honestly don't know its origins, but I have heard it since I was a wee thing.. from my grandparents and my great grandma! LOL!
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Ah I have always enjoyed "crumudgeon" as well as "hirsute," and "humbug."
As for "talleywhacker" - it has come from being used for farm animals to being used for the male's member of any species. I believe it originally arose from the degenerative terms applied to teamsters who were referred to as bull whackers or talley whackers (if mules). As to why - I have no idea.
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I think you'll find the word is CURMUDGEON
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OK... shall we try to persuade Chris to refer to a "curmudgeon's tallywhacker" on the radio show? [:D]
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Good point.. LOL.. I don't think so!! [:o]
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It would be a good challenge for him (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emotihost.com%2Fsigns12%2F16.gif&hash=960250fc66bce1714d1984a7652f965f)
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Hast thou had a blow to the pate by some dashed bounder?
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what about a sagger-maker's bottom-knocker....
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Hast thou had a blow to the pate by some dashed bounder?
Verily! Yon dastardly ne'er-do-well waylayed me 'neath the lycugate
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That scallywag has need of a taste of the cat-o-nine-tails- what sayest thou?
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Skin his brigandish hide with a flagellum!
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then box his wanton ears, the cur...
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Wanton ears? [???]
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yes, he has the most wanton ears I've seen for ages....
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I thought a wanton was a Chinese dumpling
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It is, that's why your assailant was partially deaf...
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Ahh, that explains why he didn't stop when I ordered him to cease and desist. I thought he may have been a TRIFLE deaf.
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LOL LOL LOL!!! Very good guys!
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No, Chris should scrupulously eschew obfuscation of scientific cognition and judiciously apply the cogent reasoning of the perspicuous perspective of the production aforementioned.
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It would be a good challenge for him (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emotihost.com%2Fsigns12%2F16.gif&hash=960250fc66bce1714d1984a7652f965f)
See above
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No, Chris should scrupulously eschew obfuscation of scientific cognition and judiciously apply the cogent reasoning of the perspicuous perspective of the production aforementioned.
I wondered where my dictionary had gone & now I know - YOU ATE IT! (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emotihost.com%2Feating1%2F15.gif&hash=3ab703eb890a25de5909dc718639e459)
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I like the word 'switch' as in 'Boy, go outside and cut me a switch' I wish I was living in a time where I could use that sentence without fear of retribution.
I do use the words codswallop, hirsute and humbug, frequently...
I also make up words... I have to.. apparently it's not kosher to swear in front of children these days. I'm sure my children will be relentlessly teased at school when they start using words like "forestal" and "crumpaliscious" in place of more accepted cuss words. But they are both perfectly cromulent words.
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I like the word 'switch' as in 'Boy, go outside and cut me a switch' I wish I was living in a time where I could use that sentence without fear of retribution.
I do use the words codswallop, hirsute and humbug, frequently...
I also make up words... I have to.. apparently it's not kosher to swear in front of children these days. I'm sure my children will be relentlessly teased at school when they start using words like "forestal" and "crumpaliscious" in place of more accepted cuss words. But they are both perfectly cromulent words.
I used to do that in lectures when I was trying to make a point about not wishing to seem ignorant in front of one's peers. Hardly anyone would ask me what the words meant. Point proven, methinks! [:P]