I'll show you mine, will you show me yours?

[stuartnz]

In the "ask another member a funny question" thread, one I asked that was rudely, callously and cruelly ignored by all and sundry was

Do you have a neologism you want to get adopted?

I asked that because I do have one that I'd like to see get taken up. It's one I'm quite fond of, and seems very useful for the world of the Web, wherein it is easy to read a little about a lot, and thus know a dangerously small amount about a great number of different things. So, my neologism for this type of dilettante is "pieriansipist". An extra ladoo for everyone who gets the derivation without having to look it up, and a rasgulla for anyone who can cite the source from memory. ;-)

Here's the challenge. I've shown you mine, now will you show me yours? At the moment, "pieriansipist" turns up exactly 0 Google hits, or ghits. "ghits" is an example of how the Web can facilitate the uptake of neologisms, since the use of "ghits" as a contraction of "Google hits" is already becoming more and more visible across the Web. So, if we share our neologisms with each other, we can work to free them, liberate them into the Wild, Wild Web. Are you game?

 

[riverkid]

In the "ask another member a funny question" thread, one I asked that was rudely, callously and cruelly ignored by all and sundry was

Do you have a neologism you want to get adopted?

I asked that because I do have one that I'd like to see get taken up. It's one I'm quite fond of, and seems very useful for the world of the Web, wherein it is easy to read a little about a lot, and thus know a dangerously small amount about a great number of different things. So, my neologism for this type of dilettante is "pieriansipist". An extra ladoo for everyone who gets the derivation without having to look it up, and a rasgulla for anyone who can cite the source from memory. ;-)

Here's the challenge. I've shown you mine, now will you show me yours? At the moment, "pieriansipist" turns up exactly 0 Google hits, or ghits. "ghits" is an example of how the Web can facilitate the uptake of neologisms, since the use of "ghits" as a contraction of "Google hits" is already becoming more and more visible across the Web. So, if we share our neologisms with each other, we can work to free them, liberate them into the Wild, Wild Web. Are you game?

I rarely venture outside of Ask a T. I came a cross this in UNANSWERED.

I've not the faintest, Stuart so I guess I'll never see the ladoo or rasgulla - two more that I don't have a clue on.

I do like ghits tho'.

 

[stuartnz]

Ladoo
rasgulla

I like ladoos, but I'd sell your soul for rasgulle. :-D

As for pieriansipist, it's inspired by something Alexander Pope wrote:

"A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain
And drinking largely sobers us again."

 

[riverkid]

Ladoo
rasgulla

I like ladoos, but I'd sell your soul for rasgulle. :-D

Too late, Stuart, I traded it long ago for a bottle of beer. I think that I had heard of "rasgulle" but I never knew what it was/they were.

As for pieriansipist, it's inspired by something Alexander Pope wrote:

"A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain
And drinking largely sobers us again."

Never, without a ghit and possibly not even then, would I have gotten that. But now that I see it, I like it. Keep at it and you just might get it into use. That's how new vocab is formed.

 

[riverkid]

You might find this interesting, Stuart.

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History Is What's Happening
Have you concocted a word for the debris that collects between couch cushions? Do you think you have the perfect new term to describe the feeling of waking from a nap? Did you discover an adverb that accurately captures your awkward running style? Click over to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary submission page and share your lexicographical propensities with the world. You could also make history by qualifying for Word of the Year honors!

Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online

 

[stuartnz]

You might find this interesting, Stuart.

==============

History Is What's Happening
Have you concocted a word for the debris that collects between couch cushions? Do you think you have the perfect new term to describe the feeling of waking from a nap? Did you discover an adverb that accurately captures your awkward running style? Click over to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary submission page and share your lexicographical propensities with the world. You could also make history by qualifying for Word of the Year honors!

Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online

THANKS! What a great idea. :-D

 

[stuartnz]

I subscribe to a daily email called "Worthless Word For The Day", and today's word is pieriansipist. Woohoo!

Here it is for today :-D

 

[beascarpetta]

I subscribe to a daily email called "Worthless Word For The Day", and today's word is pieriansipist. Woohoo!

Here it is for today :-D

congratulations, you did it!
I've just read your thread and I would like you to know that there are places in the world where people do know what Πιερίαν is.

 

[stuartnz]

congratulations, you did it!
I've just read your thread and I would like you to know that there are places in the world where people do know what Πιερίαν is.

I'd like to come with a witty reply, but it's all Greek to me. :-D


(PS. I was able to piece Πιερίαν together)

 

[riverkid]

congratulations, you did it!
I've just read your thread and I would like you to know that there are places in the world where people do know what {___} is.

Geeeezze, Beascarpetta, Stuart was only speaking figuratively, when he said,

"I'll show you mine, will you show me yours?".






:-D :-D: -D

 

[riverkid]

Congrats, Stuart. Now you've got to pound the pavement to get it out there. Each posting, accuse someone of pieriansipissing,

Get it into as many parts of speech as you can.


You're engaging in flagrant and dangerous pieransipissing, you pieransipistic pieransipist!

 

[stuartnz]

Congrats, Stuart. Now you've got to pound the pavement to get it out there. Each posting, accuse someone of pieriansipissing,

Get it into as many parts of speech as you can.


You're engaging in flagrant and dangerous pieransipissing, you pieransipistic pieransipist!

Good advice. That wwftd post has already helped a bit. I've found it at two other sites, one of which might interest beascarpetta:

rogueclassicism
Wordie: Pieriansipist

 

[beascarpetta]

PS. I was able to piece Πιερίαν together

I should have thought so that's why I posted it
(anything less would have left me gravely disappointed in you;-))

 

[stuartnz]

I should have thought so that's why I posted it
(anything less would have had me gravely disappointed ;-))

Actually, it wasn't hard at all - it was as easy as
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

 

[beascarpetta]

Actually, it wasn't hard at all - it was as easy as
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

this is all π to me :-D