As for it origins the jury is out on that one, it might be a combination of "bang" and "smash" according to the Chambers English Dictionary, or a composite of "banged" and "bashed".

It's been facetiously suggested that "it is the Corkese for a public lavatory for females".

#ireland #slang #language

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Banjax

It describes something, or someone, who is worn out, tired, broken beyond repair. If the mechanic has given up on your car then it would be banjaxed, or if you had worked nights for a month and could barely put one foot in front of another you would be banjaxed.

#ireland #slang #language

AUNT. Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, &c. for the dells. CANT. See DELLS.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

Accountability is under the microscope. 🔬

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-disambiguation-cost-of-accountability?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I have long been suspicious of the grammar of accountability, so I am considering publishing an essay on the topic. Much has already been written about this weasel word, a favoured spirit animal by corporations and now adopted by the AI Ethics cohorts.

#philosophy #language #accountability #governance #ethics #aiethics #institutions #authority #substack #blog #essay #ontologicalgrammar #languageinsufficiency #lih

ROUND ROBIN. A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names are written in a circle, so that it cannot be discovered who first signed it, or was, in other words, the ringleader.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): ROUND ROBIN. A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names are written in a circle, so that it cannot be discovered who first signed it, or was, in other words, the ringleader. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

DELLS. Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery, but who have not lost their virginity, which the UPRIGHT MAN claims by virtue of his prerogative; after which they become free for any of the fraternity. Also a common strumpet. CANT.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DELLS. Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery, but who have not lost their virginity, which the UPRIGHT MAN claims by virtue of his prerogative; after which they become free for any of the fraternity. Also a common strumpet. CANT. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

#language #linguistics #neography #conlang #conscript #orthography #neography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ZkWfor5qU

Grandiloquent Word of the Day.
Quockerwodger [KWAH-ker-wah-jher]
(n.)
1. A toy which moves and dances about when a string is pulled.
2. A politician who is bought off by corporations or other entities.
Origin unknown - mid 19th century.
Used in a sentence:
“The shameless arts of the sycophant are not monopolized by Mr. Quocker-wodger and his congeners.”
From a book of satires edited by William Nation published in 1880.
#globalmuseum #Language

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day Quockerwodger

Ontological grammar with examples, including Olivia Rodrigo's babydoll, and more
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/ontological-grammar-moral-kinds-and

#philosophy #blog #substack #video #poscast #language #communication #institutions #courts #morality

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Bad scran!

An imprecation meaning "Bad luck!" as in "Bad scran tae ye" (Bad fare to you). "Scran" is thought to mean food unfit for human consumption but it derivation is unclear. It seems to have made it's way to Ireland via Ulster-Scots.

#ireland #slang #language

Ontological grammar is subjacent to active cognition and verbal faculties.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-grammar-of-ontological-grammar?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Many people label those who disagree with their positions as stupid or acting in bad faith, but the notion of ontological grammar liberates me from discussions of subjecthood, agency, and intent.

#philosophy #language #blog #podcast #substack #grammar #perspective #grammar #ClaudeAI #subjecthood #agency #intent #communication #understanding

I take a look at the gravitational pull of Modernity and the failure of postmodernity and metamodernity.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-exit-door-is-painted-on-the-wall?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#substack #blog #podcast #grammar #philosophy #noexit #modernity #postmodern #metamodern #perspective #writing #change #trap #diagnosis #risk #language

No joke, there's a law in Germany called *Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungs­aufgabenübertragungsgesetz* (one word), or in legalese abbreviation *RkReÜAÜG M-V.*

On that note, why is 'abbreviation' such a long word to shorten stuff?

Translation of the law's title:
> Law on the transfer of tasks for the monitoring of cattle identification and beef labelling

Oh, and there's even a longer word for a single law:
*Grundstücks­verkehrs­genehmigungs­zuständigkeits­übertragungs­verordnung*

Oh ... and you're welcome, here's your new WiFi password for home ...

#GermanLanguage #German #Language #FunnyWords

NUMMS. A sham collar, to be worn over a dirty shirt.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Psychology is an administrative vocabulary masquerading as a natural science, and the most damning evidence is that the discipline best equipped to rescue it is quietly declining to speak its language. Thoughts?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-zombie-factory?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #psychology #zombies #ethics #blog #substack #writing #critique #news #language #society #culture #power #instrumentation #evidence #podcast #thoughts

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."

In the linked paper, Carl D. Franklin digs deep into the history of the tetragrammaton and debunks some of the myths commonly accepted as fact. The paper is part of a series and well worth the read for anyone interested in textual criticism or translation.

PDF: https://www.cbcg.org/franklin/debunking2.pdf

SYNOPSIS

"Is it true that the name Jehovah borrowed its vowels from Adonai?"

Spoiler: No, it is not true. It is a fabrication of a false history. The pronunciation, JEHOVAH was used centuries before Galatinus, so it is impossible for him to have invented it. Moreover, there is a lack of historical evidence that medieval scholars before Galatinus accepted any pronunciation other than JEHOVAH. They all appear to have unanimously supported this one widely known pronunciation of the tetragrammaton.

A lot of religious and textual myths have resulting in mass misconceptions about biblical textual history and meaning. Some of the myths misrepresent the tetragrammaton, or the name of God. This eventually led to the creation of the artificial name, Yahweh, which is not a Hebrew word, and is in fact a cleverly disguised classical Latin name for Jove. The author defrocks the Galatinus origin myth, proving the name JEHOVAH was in use long before Galatinus.

The sacred name mythos is popular in some Christian and Jewish sects as well as among the Hebrew Roots movement. This paper exposes some of the false history and baseless assertions about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton. As it turns out, the early Masoretes and some early Catholics and the later Reformers had gotten it right - JEHOVAH is the correctly preserved pronunciation of the name of God. The name was never 'lost' and it has been known all through recorded history, if even only by a few.

#Bible #MasoreticText #Translation #Theology #History #Philology #Myths #SacredNames #NominaSacra #Judaism #Christianity #Hebrew #TiberianHebrew #Language #Linguistics

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How is this possible?

The origin of the name of the U.S. state of #Oregon is unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Oregon

#language #history #meaning #etymology