Word Of The Day

[Dave James]

With the sole intent of improving the collective vocabulary, I offer the following.  

TRUMPERY:

PRONUNCIATION:

(TRUHM-puh-ree) 

MEANING:
1. Something showy but worthless.
2. Nonsense or rubbish.
3. Deceit; fraud; trickery.

ETYMOLOGY:

French.  Tromper (to deceive).  Earlier documented use: 1481

 

[Brad]

Spanish is quite similar, naturally. The equivalent of tromper is trampa in Spanish. 

[Justin V]

[catesta]

Ah, very clever.

There is maybe a few people that don't align politically with the majority of active members and yet you guys still can't help yourselves with the sprinkling of politics.

[clifford_thornton]

It's just a sprinkle. A tinkle, perhaps.

[JSngry]

I'm still advocating for "fuquitous".

[JSngry]

And a REAL word, like, provable.

[lipi]

8 hours ago, catesta said:

Ah, very clever.

There is maybe a few people that don't align politically with the majority of active members and yet you guys still can't help yourselves with the sprinkling of politics.

Oof, buddy, you're off the deep end. You lost the popular vote, and you would on this board, too, by a wider margin still.

[BillF]

On 21/10/2020 at 2:24 PM, Dave James said:

With the sole intent of improving the collective vocabulary, I offer the following.  

TRUMPERY:

PRONUNCIATION:

(TRUHM-puh-ree) 

MEANING:
1. Something showy but worthless.
2. Nonsense or rubbish.
3. Deceit; fraud; trickery.

ETYMOLOGY:

French.  Tromper (to deceive).  Earlier documented use: 1481

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/9hh9c7/in_presentday_uk_the_word_trump_is_a_childs_word/

[catesta]

15 hours ago, lipi said:

Oof, buddy, you're off the deep end. You lost the popular vote, and you would on this board, too, by a wider margin still.

You're off the deep end if you think I was implying it was the other way.

 

[clifford_thornton]

Well technically the moderators are the E.C. so we will have to defer to them.

[lipi]

9 hours ago, catesta said:

You're off the deep end if you think I was implying it was the other way.

 

Ah, I see. "you guys" is supposed to refer back to "the majority of active members" and not to "a few people," then? In that case, I apologize and rather than give you grief about your political beliefs I will give you grief about your syntax. You can't switch subjects between clauses; that's not cricket.

Edited October 23, 2020 by lipi

[Dave James]

36 minutes ago, lipi said:

Ah, I see. "you guys" is supposed to refer back to "the majority of active members" and not to "a few people," then? In that case, I apologize and rather than give you grief about your political beliefs I will give you grief about your syntax. You can't switch subjects between clauses; that's not cricket.

"...You can't switch subjects between clauses..."  

Unacceptable.  The mods need to whack his pee pee.

[JSngry]

11 hours ago, Dave James said:

 The mods need to whack his pee pee.

This mod finds that suggestion to be pretty revolting.

[catesta]

14 hours ago, lipi said:

Ah, I see. "you guys" is supposed to refer back to "the majority of active members" and not to "a few people," then? In that case, I apologize and rather than give you grief about your political beliefs I will give you grief about your syntax. You can't switch subjects between clauses; that's not cricket.

Here is a word of the day specifically for you. Condescending 

I'll use it in a sentence.  "That guy is a real condescending asshole". Is that proper? Do I need to add an exclamation point?

 

 

 

[catesta]

See there, I used to do it with the period after and it never looked correct to me. You should know, my daughter once pointed that out in a text message and I told her she was full of it. We have not spoken since.

 

[JSngry]

I've always taken my daughter at her word when it comes to periods. Kinda arrogant not to.

[catesta]

Hmm..., I never looked at it that way, but I'm pretty sure she was talking about placement of quotation marks and that is a free for all.

[JSngry]

Sometimes offspring speak in code.

[lipi]

6 hours ago, catesta said:

Here is a word of the day specifically for you. Condescending 

I'll use it in a sentence.  "That guy is a real condescending asshole". Is that proper? Do I need to add an exclamation point?

Tsk, tsk. Name calling already, and with such poor punctuation to boot.