OOTS #1075 - The Discussion Thread

[JumboWheat01]

Borrring when do we get to see exciting stuff again

You mean a multi-page debate about the English language isn't exciting? We really can't get into slap fights here on the GitP forum, this is the best we can do.

[Peelee]

Borrring when do we get to see exciting stuff again

For me, every time there's an update.

For you? I'm guessing never.

[danielxcutter]

Speaking of the English language, this post I just reblogged on Tumblr is hilarious. Why does the English language need a word for whacking people over the head? With a fish?

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Speaking of the English language, this post I just reblogged on Tumblr is hilarious. Why does the English language need a word for whacking people over the head? With a fish?

Can you independently verify the word exists? I can only seem to find it in Urban Dictionary & references to said UB entry.

GW

[danielxcutter]

Can you independently verify the word exists? I can only seem to find it in Urban Dictionary & references to said UB entry.

GW

Ugh, don't tell me that I reblogged something an idiot bullsh*tted up again. Please don't let that be the case.

[factotum]

Well, it's not in my Webster's New Lexicon, which claims to have 170,000 entries, so it's pretty obscure if it *does* exist, or else it's highly local slang somewhere.

[danielxcutter]

Well, it's not in my Webster's New Lexicon, which claims to have 170,000 entries, so it's pretty obscure if it *does* exist, or else it's highly local slang somewhere.

Oh for Pelor's sake... *facepalm*

[JustIgnoreMe]

Oh for Pelor's sake... *facepalm*

Don't listen to them, it's a perfectly cromulent word. May I offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities?

-edit- A bit more googling finds this:

https://archive.org/stream/glossaryo...euoft_djvu.txt

Which contains cornobble as a Gloucester-dialect verb meaning "To beat on the head". No fish though.

[danielxcutter]

Don't listen to them, it's a perfectly cromulent word. May I offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities?

*checks links*

[JustIgnoreMe]

*checks links*

Sorry, I couldn't resist making the joke. I did link the words, though, to show they were made-up. And I did then find the cornobble citation: it's a real word, but no fish.

[danielxcutter]

Sorry, I couldn't resist making the joke. I did link the words, though, to show they were made-up. And I did then find the cornobble citation: it's a real word, but no fish.

Okay, fine...

[ti'esar]

Don't cornobble yourself too much about it.

[Jasdoif]

Sometimes, simply applying a prefix and a suffix to a base word can lead to the desired effect.

Perhaps ichthyothwackology is in fact an important area of study in certain scenarios.