#dysphemism

[mortejchjo]

Boat on a Waveless lot of Lake

Boat on a waveless lot of lake, me and my game killed treking waters still uncharted on my own.

Still when the white pond in the black sky was descending, I was watchful for a quack or a crow.

Finally, duck calls now at last! But for some reason, in a circle of tight tall trees they had flown.

-

Trees in a circle tightly packed-in were where ducks had arbored havens as they hid deep in those homes.

This is when I then had to follow; finding one single mesquite tree in the center, all alone.

These kinds of trees thrive in an arid situation, and is never among water unless thrown.

-

Those very same ducks in a long line then had flown into the tree's cleft as if it'd been a blackhole.

After the ducks, some long horned deer, antlers like branches, went and walked onto the water liked skipped stones.

Neither their eyes, nor did my own meet. His objective's to be in that hollowed tree, strolling slow.

-

Just when the deer entered the tree, horned branches turned arboreal, now taking shapes of wooden bones.

Just as the deer had disappeared into the tree, I lost my balance as my boat was being thrown.

Now as the deer lay resting calm, me and my boat flipped and were capsized and were dragged down by grooved woes.

#poems #poems and poetry #my poetry #poetry #spoktoberpoetry #spoktober #artists on tumblr #horror #literature #rhyme #trochaic #iambic #1 trochaic + 1 iambic #hexameter #tercet #dysphemism

[brodasweb]

El productor independiente Dysphemic de Sydney Australia lanza la nueva cinta rítmica "RAKI BEATS"

El productor independiente Dysphemic de Sydney Australia lanza la nueva cinta rítmica “RAKI BEATS”

Publicado por: Doomstwin 15 de junio de 2022 De Sydney, Australia, productor de hip-hop independiente en ascenso disfémico lanza un beattape de concepto muy especial titulado “RAKI BEATS”, creado solo a partir de muestras griegas. El nombre está inspirado en el alcohol balcánico potente y a menudo casero, Raki, que se bebe mucho en las calles de Grecia. Hizo esta cinta de ritmo en Grecia…

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#Australia #Beats #cinta #Dysphemic #independiente #lanza #nueva #productor #RAKI #rítmica #sydney

[tanadrin]

Favorite words

I keep a file on my computer of my favorite words, which are usually selected for phonaesthetic reasons, or because they are semantically or grammatically interesting. This is the list as of the most recent entries (”velico” and “Ushakaron”):

Individual words

analáugns (Gothic): hidden (nom. m. sg.)

anchorhold (English): the cell of an anchorite, in which the occupant is entombed as a kind of living saint

Apocryphan (invented): from World of Warcraft; proper name, of the pre-Cataclysm location “Apocryphan’s Rest” in the Badlands zone

armōsts (Gothic): poorest (nom. m. sg.)

ashkandi /,æʃ 'kɑn di/ (invented): proper name (World of Warcraft)

bearonæss /'bæɑɹ o ,næs/ (Old English): wooded headland (from bearu, "grove")

beinahrúgu (Old Norse): bone pile (dat. of beinahrúga)

carcern (Old English): prison (from Latin)

coalesce, coalescent (English)

crepuscular (English)

darkling (English): in darkness

daroð (Old English): javelin, projectile, “dart” in the older, more expansive sense

deliquesce (English), become liquid, esp. through organic decomposition

deosil (English): variant spelling of ‘deasil,’ turnwise; from Scottish Gaelic deiseil or deiseal, meaning ‘southward, sunward, counterclockwise;’ see also "widdershins," etymologically "anti-sunwise" and therefore counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.

effloresce, efflorescence, efflorescent (English): to burst forth into bloom, to flower; from Latin effloresco, “I blossom, I flourish”

Enakro (invented): from Warcraft III; proper name, from the name of the multiplayer map “Enakro’s Way”

Eskhandar /'ɛsk hænd ,dɑɹ/ (invented): from World of Warcraft; proper name

etiäinen (Finnish): a type of folkloric apparition

exarch (English): a Byzantine provincial governor, particularly of an exarchate like Ravenna or Africa, from Greek ἔξαρχος.

fralusanō (Gothic): lost, gone away (nom. f. weak sg.)

gevaisa (invented): a tomb of living words; term of art among wizards of the Discworld; cf. Hebrew geniza, "a storeroom containing books which cannot be used, but which nevertheless cannot be destroyed because they contain God's name"

gnist (Danish): spark; related to OE gnāst, ON gniesta, SWE gnista, OHG gneisto, MHG gneiste

hellwara (Old English): ‘of the inhabitants of hell’ (gen. pl. of f. hellwaru or m. hellwaran)

hnasqus (Gothic): soft; cognate of OE hnesce, “soft,” ModE. dialectical nesh “wimpish, weak”

idaltu (Saho-Afar): elder, firstborn; cf. Homo sapiens idaltu, the (obsolete) classification of the “Herto man” specimen, human remains of about 150,000 years of age discovered in the Afar triangle, which were some of the oldest modern human remains known at the time of their description.

idreigonds (Gothic): repentant (nom. m. sg.)

iktsuarpok (English): the feeling of anticipation waiting for someone to arrive, often leading to repeatedly going outside to check for them; from Inuktitut ᐃᒃᑦᓱᐊᕐᐳᒃ itsoarpok, “goes outside repeatedly to check if a visitor has arrived yet.”

incunabulum (English): an early printed book; something in its infant stages; from Latin incunabula, ‘swaddling clothes, cradle, birthplace.” The change in ending is a result of the medieval form incunabulum, which was a singular back-formation of a noun previously found only in the plural.

incus (Latin): "anvil"

inwitwrāsen (Old English): ‘chain of deceit’

Iolanthe (Greek): proper name meaning ‘flower of the violet’

irgendwo (German): somewhere, anywhere

κακοΐλιον (Ancient Greek): proper name (‘Kakoilion’); dysphemism for Troy; compound of κᾰκός, “bad, vile, evil,” and Ἴλιον, “Ilion/Troy/Wilusa.” Translated variously as "evil Ilios" (A.T. Murray) or "Destroy" (Fagles, pun very much intended); a poetic hapax legomenon in Homer's Odyssey, used by Penelope for Troy.

kasterborous /kæs 'tɝɹ bɔɹ oʊs/ (invented): proper name of the constellation in Doctor Who containing Gallifrey; possibly Gallifreyan

lhammas (invented): the Elvish (Quenya?) name of a work of fictional sociolinguistics by J.R.R. Tolkien outlining the relationship of the languages of Middle Earth, later superseded; borrowed as a term for "a scheme of invented languages; the historical and aesthetic plan of languages in a constructed world; such scheme in the abstract, or a document laying out such a scheme"

lint (invented): quick, clever; possibly coined by Tolkien, and of no particular language; it formed the root of such words in several constructed languages of his that were unrelated, simply because he liked the sound-meaning relationship

listopad (Polish): November; literally, “leaf-fall”

mæw (Old English): seagull

mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan): glossed as ‘a look shared by two people wishing the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.’ The word is a regular derivation from ihlvpi, “to feel awkward, to be at a loss,’ with various grammatical affixes of voice, aspect, and so forth, and might be more accurately translated as ‘to make each other both feel awkward.’

narthex (English): antechamber or entrance area of some Christian churches; from Greek νάρθηξ, “giant fennel, box for ointments”

neorxnawang (Old English): ‘field of heaven’

opalescent (English): iridescent in a manner resembling opal

orcnaw (Old English): evident

razda (Gothic): voice

reordberend (Old English): ‘voice-bearer,’ i.e., a poetic word for a human being

ríastrad (Irish): battle frenzy, berserker rage, warp spasm

ruinenlust (German): literally ‘desire for ruins;’ yearning for the past evoked by ruins

Saoshyant /'saʊ ,ʃyənt/ (English): eschatological figure of Zoroastrian scripture and tradition who brings about the final renovation of the universe, the Frashokereti. From Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬊𐬳𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬧𐬝 saoš́iiaṇt̰.

Sargasso (English): proper name applied to a region of the western Atlantic; from Portuguese sargaço, of unknown ultimate origin)

searonet (Old English): web of guile, web of cunning

Sumer (English): proper name, from Akkadian Šumeru, of uncertain origin but potentially related to Hebrew שִׁנְעָר Shin’ar, Egyptian sꜣngꜣr , and Hittite Shanhar(a), all meaning “southern Mesopotamia;” has also been linked to the Sumerian endonym 𒊕𒈪𒂵 sag̃-gig-ga, “black-headed people, the Sumerians”

talast (Old English): 2nd person singular present active indicative: thou reckonest, thou dost consider

tīrfæst (Old English): glorious

tramountayne (Middle English fr. Latin via Italian): the north; the north wind; the north star (rare) (from Latin transmontanus)

Tuscarora (English): proper name of a Native American people, from Skarure skarū’ren’, “hemp gatherers.”

Tyree (English): found as a personal name and surname (cf. Mount Tyree in Antarctica, named for a U.S. Navy rear admiral); name of a fictional planet in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; from Tiree (Scottish Gaelic Tiriodh), the most westerly island of the Inner Hebrides.

Ushakaron (English): proper name of a star; according to unsourced claims, the triple star ξ Tauri, possibly from the Akkadian word for “avenger”

velico (Italian): sailing

westengryre (Old English): ‘terrors of the wasteland, terrors of the desert’

whyssyne (Middle English): cushion

wodwo (Middle English): woodwose, a wild man of the woods

þancoi (Old English): thoughtful

þystro (Old English): darkness (nom./acc. strong n. pl.)

Phrases or expressions

uncleftish beholding ("Uncleftish Beholding," by Poul Anderson, English): "atomic theory" as calqued into solely Germanic roots

proclarush taonas (Stargate SG-1, supposed ‘Ancient’ language): "Taonas, lost in fire"

varg í véum (Vǫlsunga Saga, Old Norse) "a wolf in holy places," i.e., an outlaw (equivalent to skógarmaðr)

wære fræton (Exodus, Old English): "they ate the treaty," i.e., they broke it

hapax legomenon (from Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον): a word which occurs only once in a manuscript or particular textual corpus

táiknái andsakanái (Gothic, Luke 2:34), “disputed sign,” cf. KJV, “a sign which will be contradicted.”

#i really cannot find a reliable independent source for the etymology of 'ushakaron' #or even for which star it's supposed to be #that's not the same snippet of text obviously copy-pasted in different places on google #so if anybody can confirm or disconfirm its etymology and identification #i would appreciate it

[hoegender]

aggietalia (aggie session where the theme was, unfortunately, hetalia) with @qualityrain and @crystals-trash-heap 🩷

keep reading for france's bare ass (not a dysphemism)

and close ups 😔

#no points for guessing my hetalia favs #disclaimer. you will not ever see hetalia from me again #unless i'm undergoing copious amounts of stress #so there's that #sorry abt france's bare ass 🩷 #hetalia #yin art #crystal art #thiha goes insane

[samueldays]

And yet, SpaceX has put objects in space.

Twitter has been a hilarious dumpster fire to watch the last few weeks, with funnymen, discourse, bluechecks and memes. Now I want to take a step back to comment more broadly, and then drop the subject a while.

Elon Musk founded SpaceX, which put objects in space. Some engineers there spent thousands of words specifying what is meant by in space, and the company delivered on concrete physical useful things in space, in reality. You can call some of them and check. Elon Musk is what roon calls a "shape rotator".

By contrast, a lot of the people predicting doom for Musk and screaming that he's doing it wrong and he's a terrible person are what roon calls "wordcels", who are great at stringing words together but the words don't seem to have much relation to external reality. Here's a spectacular example:

Maue performs outrage that Twitter is no longer paying people to talk about another group of people who are talking about things related to climate. "The critical work", "the most pivotal" - shut the Hell up, Maue. You are not even wrong. You should have your adjective privileges revoked.

Actual critical work, meanwhile: build nuclear power plants. France has shown this to work. Most objections to nuclear power plants are already disproven in France.

(Regarding the alleged importance of COP27: I looked through its documents for a bit and it does not mention nuclear power in its "Science Day" nor "Decarbonization Day" nor "Solutions Day" sub-conference agendas. COP27 does have a "Gender Day", though. Deeply unserious people.)

Perhaps buying Twitter was a bad idea. Perhaps Elon Musk is going to lose money on it. I don't know. Perhaps national security is going to be involved somehow. There's a whole lot of things I don't know. So I make general inferences from this pair of observations: Musk has shown himself able to deliver physical deliverables that are very difficult, at scale -- while his critics appear to be overwhelmingly useless shitheads like Maue.

I would like to say "that's just a random shithead on Twitter" but it appears to be random shitheads all the way up, and Maue is just a particularly good example to hand. It's shitheads in the newspapers, shitheads among the spokespeople for various organizations, and that one extra-special shithead in Congress who thought it was cool to threaten Musk with the abuse of government power because Musk was not doing enough to stop "disinformation", a fashionable word these shitheads have appropriated to use as a dysphemism for "dissent".

Best wishes to Elon Musk, who isn't nearly as funny as he thinks he is, but is still quite entertaining and vastly preferable to the alternatives on offer.

#all #twitter #spacex #discourse #elon musk

[annies-scrapbook]

‘autogynephile’ is a dysphemism for ‘woman-identified woman’

#put that in your pipe and smoke it :^) #trans #transfem #sapphic #babbles #found this in my drafts

[mourning-again-in-america]

it's real tempting to dysphemize the whigs as "those pompous expounders of 'virtue'", but then I'd be making the same mistake of most 20th cent. american countercultural movements--virtue is good, actually, and it's not worth it to destroy what is actually good, just to own the annoying hypocrites who own the academies.

Virtue, properly done, is necessarily Actually Good; just because they who preach it do not do it properly, does not mean that it ought not be done!

[radicarian]

INFORMAL SURVEY what is your preferred euphemism/dysphemism/idiom for someone losing their temper? E.g. so-and-so hit the ceiling, flipped their lid, flipped shit, blew a fuse...?

I’m realizing I use “blew a gasket” almost exclusively and I have no idea when/where that started

#to lose one's temper is in itself interesting as a metaphor...

[tzeenjblog]

[oodlenoodleroodle]

Any major alteration of a society requires modifications of speech and writing, both high and low. Reformers wished to scotch the invocation of saints, including the Mother of God, so as to train the sights of the faithful upon God and Christ. ... The eradication of saints from language would find its most telling confirmation in an exception to the rule. According to a widely accepted etymology, the slang expletive bloody is a minced oath that originated in the phrase “by Our Lady.” From the measureless sea of saints’ invocations, only this one dysphemism survived. It remained in existence only because its very meaning and provenance became unrecognizable, its vestiges of religiosity trumped by its coincidental blot of vulgarism.

Jan M. Ziolkowski: The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity, p. 193

#etymology

[tarragonblack1235813213455]

SOCIAL SCIENCE

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LINGUISTICS

VOCABULARY

New Word of the Day is each.

Part of Speech: Adjective

Every one of two or more individually considered.

Etymology -> GERMAN

SYNONYM -> any

ANTONYM -> altogether

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New Word of the Day is efface.

Part of Speech: Verb

The action of efface will destory or remove something so that it can not be seen anymore.

Etymology -> LATIN

SYNONYM -> delete

ANTONYM -> conserve

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New Word of the Day is epiphany.

Part of Speech: Noun

A moment of sudden revelation or insight is called an epiphany.

EXAMPLE

I had an epiphany regarding the scientific methodology that we use as a doctor.

Etymology -> GREEK

Synonym is a term used for a word that has the same definition as another word in the same language.

SYNONYM -> realization

Antonym is a term used for a word that has the opposite definition as another word in the same language.

ANTONYM -> bewilderment

■Homonym

This term is defined as two or more words that have the same spelling or pronunciation, but each of these will have a different definition and origin.

□Homophone is defined as two or more words that have the same pronunciation, but each of these will have a different spelling, definition, and origin.

□Homograph is defined as two or more words that have the same spelling, but each of these will have a different pronunciation, definition, and origin.

■Heteronym

This term is defined as two or more words that have the same spelling but have a different definition and pronunciation.

■Polysemy

This term is used for a word that has multiple definitions.

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New word of the day is euphemism.

Part of Speech: Noun

Euphemism is a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

Etymology -> GREEK

SYNONYM -> substitute

ANTONYM -> dysphemism

#social science #linguistics #vocabulary #dictionary #etymology #thesaurus #synonyms #antonyms

[soysaucevictim]

This has been talked to death so I aint gonna enable RBs here.

But one of the amusing dimensions about the /hj tone indicator to me... is that language inherently has a lot of contradictory ambiguity to it. We even have a word for that, contronyms. (Which just delights me so much as a thing.)

It's the bread and butter of wordplay, of coded speech, of puns, of double entendres, of euphemisms, and dysphemisms... which I just think is fascinating mostly from a descriptivist perspective.

Sometimes being obtuse is the goal. And sometimes redundancy is intentional.

(That said, it's one I don't really like using in practice. It's often time a leap of faith, trusting interlocutor to pick up what you're putting down with that one.)

#i kinda like playing observer when it comes to linguistic trends - watching it all w/ ongoing curiosity/fascination

[laymansterm]

Dysphemism is when someone uses a negative or unkind word or phrase to describe someone or something.

Sentence Example:

He was referred to as a "bum" instead of a "homeless person".

#english vocab #dictionary #layman's terms

[mohelconvention]

After living in Texas for my whole life, I still overhear some dysphemism weekly that makes me double-take.

Today’s was “We’re trying to shove 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag.”

[samueldays]

ok, you scared off witch hunters. how does your trick keep the "genuinely bad for community" witches off? to move on from more figurative to less, i'm mightily pissed off that every Netscape Navigator place is also constantly posting about the size of the hats

LOL. I'm reminded of that rant about learning Chinese.

"You see, when the post says Netscape Navigator, this is a euphemism for a dysphemism for Bantus and Bantuoids. As for the hats..."

To answer your question, I hadn't thought that far, the idea was that Netscape Navigator keeps out the witch hunters while not needing "genuinely bad for community" witches to use.

My second idea, and this is still spur-of-the-moment shitposting, is that you filter for those witches who are competent to tell apart at least five African subraces. I know of twelve described on a witch site under names like "Congolid" and "Nilotid", but a grouping of five categories vaguely understandable to people who aren't Racism Experts might look something like this: Copts (Egyptian, pre-Arab), East African (tall, very dark), West-Central African (stock N), Pygmy, Bushmen (far south).

#all #asks #laugh rule #shitpost #darkly hinting

[meet-we-wake]

Normal vs Special

Here I am again…Another day another controversy… as being CONTROVERSIAL has become synonymous with my writing !!!

Today I'm gonna share my views on a "sensitive" topic…Before jumping your Gun on me (virtually of course) let me clarify it's not about SEX or DEATH again (Yes this audacity I've already shown earlier).

This time it's something which is quite close to my conscience though I don't agree with the concept itself i.e. "SPECIAL CHILD" and you know what --- It's NOT a Legal term either.

Believe Me, it's not gonna be FUNNY this time but also won't be Nerve wrecking or Bone chilling either....So, the audience --- Just sit back and relax (but keep ur eyes..."yes eyes not ears" OPEN).

If we go by the definition, a SPECIAL CHILD is someone who has "Special" needs. REALLY ??

Their needs are as common and same as of anyone else..They also want to be Loved, Understood, and taken care of..It just requires a different way to fulfil those needs.

In fact being different allows them to VIEW the world in a different way than others..

Why have we stigmatized the term "DISABLED" ? Doesn't the term "SPECIAL CHILD" have become more dysphemism than euphemism ?? (sows the seeds of negativity and Low Self Esteem)

NOTE: Euphemism are the terms used to soften the meaning of other phrases e.g. restroom for toilet. While the dysphemism is a "derogatory" term as oppose to Euphemism.

Have we ever realized that we (not all but certainly many) turn BLIND, DEAF n DUMB, HANDICAPPED, PARALYZED, or show other forms of disabilities when confronted with our FEARS or even when facing the TRUTH or REALITY ? (Feel free to disagree)

What does this signify ? -- It's a reminder that we all have some or the other form of disabilities (whether physical or mental) i.e. no one is born PERFECT or completely NORMAL.

Why are they always seen with either the sense of "Sympathy" or being "Useless" i.e. a "Burden" on the Family and to the Society in whole ??

--- Do you think a Mother has to bear lesser pain to deliever a baby with any form of disability ?

--- Do the Human emotions -- Feeling Sad, Ecstatic, Smiling, Crying etc differentiates between a "so-called-normal" child and a Child with some form of disabilities ?

They don't need our Sympathy instead our understanding and acceptance of them being as "one of us" only.

How often do we hear the cliche "Maa Baap k bure karmo ki saza baccho ko milti hai" ?? --- Does that mean those Maa-Baap having "normal" child never committed any sin or did harm to anyone (no offense intended) ? REALLY ??

Why do we always think "They can't do what we can do" ? Have we ever questioned the other way i.e. Can we ("so-called-normal" human beings) do what they can ??

They really posses one or the other such skill which we "so-called-normal" people can't even think of. As they say, NATURE is a Great Leveler…If it takes something from you, be assured you'll get something else in return.

For me every Child is SPECIAL…There are no single "SPECIAL CHILD"...Why the hell do we need the term "Special Child" or "Differently Abled Child" ?? (Agree/Disagree/NOTA ?)

It's very easy to "Discard" or "Disown" something which either doesn't fit into our scheme of things or seem to have no value BUT TAKE A PAUSE, LOOK WITHIN and REALISE that a CHILD is not just a "thing". It has LIFE !!! (Some food for thought)

A BIG Salute and Hats Off to the Parents and other family members who brings up and take care of all the needs of their "Specially Talented" member of the family against all odds and the hostile treatment of the Society.

In fact, they should be termed as "Special Family" who are genuinely SPECIAL !!! (I personally know few of them and bow my head in respect)

Just a humble request and an appeal to such Families (in fact applicable to every family)….Please never compare ur kids with other's, they have been created differently for a reason…They will EXCEL and make you feel PROUD in their own distinct way !!!

Concluding remarks : What we need is an "Inclusive environment" and a Compassionate mindset, progressive and flexible enough to understand their needs and treat them equally (again it's their deserving right and not for sympathy) as what we see from outside is just the "tip of an iceberg" of what they have to suffer in reality.

On the lines of "Kshama Prarthana" (done at the end of Durga Chalisa paath during Navaratra to forgive any unintentional mistake) I would seek your (the audience) forgiveness if any (or all) of my views would have hurt (but not if it made you think rationally) you unintentionally.

Hum hain raahi pyaar k....Fir milenge chalte chalte kisi more par...