BTW, check merriam-webster's bluesky. Its really good.
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A tweet saying "It took me 19 years to figure out NEWS stands for "notable events, weather and sports" 🤔". It has a reply from Merriam-Webster saying "No."
I believe that is a backronym.
It stands for “never eat waffles (soggy)”.
I was told
North, East, West, South
What is happening in all directions
Just in case anyone was wondering: it's because it's about new events
Oh yeah smart guy? Why is it pronounced NUDES then? Huh ?
SEND NEWS
i can't lie, those news are FETT
... butter up my noods already, would ya?
It's getting steamy in this kitchen, oh my...
(lolololol)
could i maybe double-fork your noods? that would be soo hot
... yes... but... be gentle...
(ok dear god this has to stop NO ERP ON MAIN)
there's even a line with puns. i'm not judging, i'm just saying that's probably the line lol
I am glad we can mutually agree on approaching the line, hitting the line, and then stopping.
I have seen too much, toooo muuuch weird shit on too many discord servers, dear god.
i just spent a long time crafting a question and then deleted it when i realized i don't really want to know the answer to some questions.
This may not be the question you were asking, but it is the one I want to answer:
Let me just put it this way:
... You ever heard of the game, 'The Isle'?
You ever heard of the handle 'ParadymShift'?
... Yeah. I knew that guy 20 years ago, and a good deal of other people connected to him, some of whom would later also be connected to, or literally members of, the Isle dev team.
I actually met him in person once, almost two decades ago now.
I know his real name. Know what he looks like.
I made a pitstop at his fucking house for 30 minutes on a longdistance roadtrip down the whole Pacific US coast... I know where he at least used to live.
Fell out of contact with him years before all the shit went down at the Isle... because he was a perma power tripping, manipulative bastard.
Then one day... I happened across all the... news about him.
... And the people I knew who were mutual friends with Paradym still... all gaslit the fuck out of me and told me all that shit was fake news.
Paradym himself?
... He should be in a fucking jail cell, kinda really hugely took ERP way, waaay too far, as in, pressured minors into sending him nudes too far, as in, sent unsolicited nudes of himself to multiple minors, too fucking far, as in, manipulated a whole community of mostly minors, while he was an adult, by forcing people to do and say things on pain of him releasing revenge porn of them... too fucking far.
So far, he seems to have wiped himself off of the internet, doesn't appear he was ever actually prosecuted.
... If I ever meet that piece of shit in person again, by some unhappy coincidence, I'll put him in the grave.
No Underwear Dickpick Expecting Sex
Ah yes, my favorite pastime, dickpicking.
I uhhhh... Don't think it is buddy...
What about sports?
They usually cover weather too i think.
It's all about what's new so we should really call it SNEW.
Just like TIPS is not an acronym of To Ensure Prompt Service.
TEPS
This is what happens when I don't proofread but fuck it I'm leaving it as is
Hah well it’d be incorrect if it were insure so maybe you were right after all
I like the simplicity and brevity of their response
When you know every word there is it's easy to find just the right one.
come on, y'all. it clearly stands for North, East, West, South!
i love folk etymology.
"News" is actually the "new things". The plural of "new".
does this make a history book "the olds"?
if you want to coin that term, i'll support it
edit - but until now, the "olds" has always been the name we gave my grandpa's old eight-eight
Why stop there?
Middle English neue, from Old English neowe, niowe, earlier niwe "made or established for the first time, fresh, recently made or grown; novel, unheard-of, different from the old; untried, inexperienced, unused," from Proto-Germanic *neuja-(source also of Old Saxon niuwi, Old Frisian nie, Middle Dutch nieuwe, Dutch nieuw, Old High German niuwl, German neu, Danish and Swedish ny, Gothic niujis "new").
proto-germanic is fascinating. it's a whole "conceptual language" made entirely out of assumptions, and i love it.
i assume you're aware of RobWords on youtube? he also does another show called Words Unraveled. if you're a word nerd like me, i'm sure you'd love boþ.
edit: #HARDCORE Þ
Thanks. I’ll check.
Welp, that was 19 years down he drain.
In French it’s literally “nines” wtf is their problem.
Just kidding. It’s nouvelles. But “neuf” means both “new” and “nine.”
ok… I actually never made the connection between neuf and neuf x)
and saying "a nine" is pronounced the same as "an egg" (un neuf/un œuf)
That's not an argument, that's just contradiction.
I think the dictionary has the authority to just contradict misinformation about etymology.
It depends which one. Only the Oxford English Dictionary does. Websters is full of spelling mistakes :)
No, it isn’t.
Thank you, Webster.
“I just saw this somewhere, so I’m going to tweet about how I just discovered it myself. And yes, I think that’s a cool thing to do.”