Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
Serendipity, idk it sounds cool, “serendipitous” moments happen a lot irl (e.g. forgetting to bring ur wallet with u to the supermarket but minutes later, you end up finding a coin in a random pocket from your jacket to unlock a shopping cart), but it almost only sees its use in fiction, like…
philalethist, A lover of truth.
“Philomot” was always pretty charming. “The color of a dead leaf.”
As long as it’s not “used car salesmen” words:
- the ask
- the spend
- action this
It’s as discordant as “the above paragraph” or “see the below steps” except with wrong words instead of broken ordering.
Seems like every time you use it you’ll end up having to explain what it means unless you’re playing D&D
I agree that we should use overmorrow more. Japanese has a similar word and it gets frequent use.
Many languages have it. English for some reason does not use it
In my country we also have a word for that and it’s always used when referring to overmorrow.
I like penultimate, next to last.
Followed by antipenultimate
I see what you did there
perseveration
Lemmy
Coprophasia
Shemomedjamo - Georgian word meaning to eat past the point of fullness because it tastes so good or as I heard it, “I accidentally ate the whole thing.”
Petrichor: The smell of rain on dry ground. One of those things everybody knows about but lacks a word for.
Apparently Streptomyces are the cause.
I learned about this in Amsterdam’s Groote Museum today, huh
Borborygmus I use often enough, but it’s not widely known. It’s the gurgling sound produced by the movement of gas through your intestines.
Limaceous I almost never use, but I enjoy it anyway. It means characteristic of or pertaining to slugs.
And lastly, tawdry is one of my favorites meaning showy but cheap and poor quality.
The are all great, but tawdry is fantastic!
Rolls of the tongue, and we all come across several tawdry things/people in a given day.
At least 20 years of having slugs as a special interest and I never heard the word limaceous?? Thank you for correcting this!
Now to find out if it actually has specific academic usage and the biologists will execute me if I use it regarding slugs outside the superfamily Limacoidea.
I don’t think tawdry is archaic. A little uncommon, but still in use.
Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.
I actually dislike that term a lot.
It’s like spunkgargleweewee. It seems immature and makes me feel more dismissive towards the argument. Maybe that also has to do with it being a catch all term and people seem less willing to give specific examples of how things are declining in quality.
spunkgargleweewee
Ah, an individual of culture.
spunkgargleweewee
You’re claiming that is a term people use?
Skibidi Ohio rizz bro.
Omg no
C’mon. They need to invent words for the clique-signalling .
It’s very fetch.
Fetch never took off though.
I believe the term originated with Yahtzee during the military and tactical shooter crazy in the 2010s. It referred to games that paraded players through various spectacles and rooms full of chest high walls, until enough time had passed to call it a campaign.
Not commonly but every so often YouTubers I watch will start using it and it sticks for a prolonged period of time.
It was just the first thing that came to mind. I imagine their are other equally silly internet words out there.
Wait did you just coin that? That’s fucking brilliant /s
Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn’t use this term constantly or anything?
It was coined by Cory Doctorow.
Because there was no /s - no they didn’t, it’s been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
Since we’re talking about it, and I really like the guy’s work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.
lol I didn’t think I needed the
/sbecause it was dripping with sarcasm.The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.
Sarcasm isn’t “pretending to be stupid” imo
Cory Doctorow coined it: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism “enshittification” in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.
