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Playing with words
The other day I realised I should have used a disclaimer on a comment. It is a comment that is supposed to be light hearted and fun so I started to amuse myself in a way that I haven't done in...
The other day I realised I should have used a disclaimer on a comment.
It is a comment that is supposed to be light hearted and fun so I started to amuse myself in a way that I haven't done in quite some time.
I've "always" enjoyed breaking down words (preferably in the "wrong" place), finding synonyms or sound-a-likes or second meanings and their synonyms or sound-a-likes or second meanings, etc, etc...
So I would like to invite you to build on my example below, bring your own examples or tell us about ways that you play with words.
Example:
American pancake
**disclaimer** -> disc + *lamer" -> pancake + *un-cool" -> pancake + *hot* -> pancake + *rising* = American pancake10 votes - 
        
Ulvehyrde – Dødsdømt (2025)
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Josef Průša awarded Medal for Merit by president of Czech Republic
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How gay men used to speak - a short film in Polari
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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Uaar – Galgeås (2025)
6 votes - 
        
Gloria Estefan: Tiny Desk Concert (2025)
9 votes - 
        
Itoki Hana - ぼくの死因 Cause of My Death - Singing with Piano (2025)
11 votes - 
        
The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - ARD Documentary
11 votes - 
        
Birnir – Englar (2025)
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Babies’ brains recognize foreign languages they heard before birth
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Galge – Brosten (2025)
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Ancient Historian reviews Monty Python's Life of Brian | Deep Dives
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What words do you recommend?
What are some words that you find particularly useful when writing and would recommend to others? How do you use them?
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Madredeus - o pastor . a vaca de fogo . os senhores da guerra (1995)
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Kivisydän – Palava Mieli (2025)
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
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Brotthogg – I Vanviddets Vold (2025)
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Little Jesus - Presente (2023)
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What is a non-problematic word that you avoid using?
We all have words we dislike for one reason or another. I am specifically talking about words that are non-problematic, so slurs and politically incorrect words are out of the scope of this post....
We all have words we dislike for one reason or another. I am specifically talking about words that are non-problematic, so slurs and politically incorrect words are out of the scope of this post. I am talking about words that you find inane, dense, overly broad, vague, imprecise, pedantic, confusing, or inadequate for any reason. Maybe you just don't like how they sound.
As long as it is not a slur or politcally incorrect, for the purposes of this post, anything goes! Any language too!
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Ted Chiang interview: life is more than an engineering problem
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Firefox just got better for Chinese, Japanese and Korean speakers on Android
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Dariush Eghbali - Nameh Bah Vatan (1983)
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Dutch public broadcaster NOS have made teletext accessible through SSH
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Tusmørke - Reptilhjernen Vet (2015)
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The Icelandic landscape is changing, and it's changing us
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Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing
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The mysteries of Roman inscriptions are being solved with a new AI tool
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Alfa Pentatonik – Kone Yskii (2025)
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Festival goers north of the Arctic circle in Finland have been treated to a line-up of rap artists – including Indigenous artists performing in their native language, Sámi
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ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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Why forty-two languages have the same word for "pineapple"
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Månegarm – I Skogsfruns Famn (2025)
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Strychnos – Sig Nærmer Døden (2025)
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Giorgio Poi — Schegge (2025)
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Turns out, bonobos ‘talk’ a lot like humans
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Sara – Ikuisesti (2025)
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Paula Carolina - Schreien! (Live) (2025)
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Havukruunu – Tavastland (2024)
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Duolingo is replacing human workers with AI
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Jizz (Birding)
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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
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uKanDanZ - War Pigs (2025)
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Nouvelle Vague | Trailer
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They don’t read very well: A study of the reading comprehension skills of English majors at two midwestern universities
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Svarta Havet – Alla Sover (2025)
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How many languages do you speak?
How many languages y'all speak? From how many different language families? How many scripts can you read? Any special grammatical quirks that your languages have? It doesn't matter if it's A2...
How many languages y'all speak? From how many different language families? How many scripts can you read? Any special grammatical quirks that your languages have?
It doesn't matter if it's A2 level or C2 level, share it with us!
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Yorushika (ヨルシカ) - Martian (2025)
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Pitenz – Fotoapéritif (2025)
4 votes