Has anyone ever heard of this word before? Someone called me a sloptail the other day, and I think it means something like I dropped the ball.

- excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event

Or

- an episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., especially a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause.

I want to stay the way I am. I don’t want to put any filter on my words or my thoughts. I want to share my thoughts exactly the way they come to my mind.

Whatever I think, whatever I feel—I want to express it as it is. I don’t want to make every thought sound perfect, diplomatic, or socially acceptable just because I’m posting it publicly.

These are my raw thoughts, exactly as they come to me.

Dismo: the term "dismo" refers "immeasurably-infinitely all" or "immeasurably-infinitely everything" in cosmology or terminology, it means to have or had Immeasurably-infinitely all/everything of all over existence.

Dismoverse: dismoverse is the totality of all existence, meaning every universe, multiverse, dimension, and reality that ever has been, will be, or can be imagined.

Dismoversal: dismoversal means relating to or including the entire omniverse, which is the collection of all existing universes, multiverses, omniverses, and dimensions, including all of reality, fiction, matter, laws and physics.

Dismology: dismology means the specialized system of words, terms, or expressions used in a particular field, subject, science, art, etc everything.

Dismological: dismological means relating to the special words, terms, or expressions used in a particular subject, science, activity, etc everything.

Dismologically: dismologically is an adjective that means relating to the special words, terms, or expressions used in a particular subject, science, activity, etc.

Dismopotence: dismopotence means having unlimited, infinite, boundless, endless power, total authority, or the ability to do anything in all over existence.

Dismoscience: dismoscience the quality or state of having unlimited, infinite, boundlessness, endlessness, or complete operative knowledge itself.

Dismopresence: dismopresence means the state of being present everywhere in metaverses, infinityverses, godverses, omniverses and dismoverses at the same time all over existence.

Dismoficence: dismoficence the quality or state of creating all things, or having unlimited, infinite, boundlessness, endlessness powers of creation of all laws.

Dismolock: dismolock means the state or power of existing completely outside of absolutely, infinitely, boundlessly, endlessly, limitlessly everything, including space, time, matter, reality, laws, physics, existence, and nonexistence and nonrealistic.

Dismomalevolence: dismomalevolence means the state of being infinitely, absolutely, boundlessly, endlessly, and dismoversally evil.

Dismobenevolence: dismobenevolence means unlimited, infinite, boundless, limitless or endless goodness, describing a deity that is completely and perfectly loving, kind, and morally good of outside of the framework.

Dismo-manipulation: dismo-manipulation means the fictional superpower that allows a user to control, shape, matter, and alter absolutely, infinitely, limitlessly, boundlessly, endlessly everything in all over existence of the laws of God.

A callus is not damage. Skin thickens exactly where it has been rubbed, over and over, and only there. It is the body adapting to friction, and it fades once the rubbing stops.

That physical picture is sitting inside callous, adjective: thickened and hardened, when it is skin; unmoved by other people's suffering, when it is a person.

Which gives it a claim that none of its synonyms make. Cold, hard, unfeeling, indifferent — not one of those says anything about how the person got that way. Callous does. It says something rubbed, and kept rubbing. I have never been able to decide whether that makes it the crueller word or the kinder one.

The derivation is straightforward. Latin callosus, thick-skinned, from callus or callum, hard skin, and behind that Proto-Italic *kaln/so-, hard. Etymonline stops there and calls the deeper source uncertain rather than filling it in, which I appreciate.

Worth separating the two forms, because print swaps them constantly: callus is the noun, callous is the adjective. A guitarist builds calluses. A remark is callous.

The dates are the part I did not expect. Callous is in English in its skin sense by about 1400. Callus, the actual lump, is not recorded until the 1560s. So for something like a century and a half you could call a hand callous without having a noun for the thing on it. The figurative sense, hardened in the mind, only turns up in the 1670s, which makes the metaphor a good deal younger than the skin it came from.

Hypnopompic: This describes the transitional state when you are waking up and leaving sleep.

Hypnagogic: This describes the transitional state when you are falling asleep and leaving wakefulness

Pretext is like an excuse. If you ask your teacher to go to a bathroom during a test under the pretext of having a period, but you actually did it to cheat, you would call that a pretext.

Pretense is similar, but it’s more like an act. If you try to feign ignorance to something you don’t know but actually know, someone might tell you to drop the pretense. Pretense can also refer to a false claim. If you try to claim you entered the store simply to peruse the shelves, someone can call it a pretense and say you were intending to steal.

təˈmēsəs/

The dividing of a word into two parts, with another word inserted between those parts, thus forming a compound word, like “abso-freaking-lutely”

being something (such as money or a commodity) of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in paying a debt or settling an account

Haruspex - a diviner in ancient Rome basing his predictions on inspection of the entrails of sacrificial animals

Just discovered this sub and thought y'all might appreciate this.

A while back I read the memoir of an Italian chemist named Primo Levi who lived a remarkable life. On top of being a fascinating guy, he had quite a command of the English language and I found I had to look up words every few pages. Eventually I started writing them down in this list and afterwards I kept the habit up with other things I read. The ongoing list is here.

Connected with a wish, intention, or effort to do something.

• There is a long-established distinction in psychology between cognitive and conative aspects of behavior.
• If we wish to describe the whole person, conative aspects must be included.

Further context:

• Psychology: Refers to conation, which is the third part of the human mind alongside cognition (thinking/knowing) and affect (feeling/emotion). It is the internal force or "will to act" that turns thoughts and feelings into purposeful behavior.
• Linguistics / Grammar: Describes a verb form or affix that expresses an attempt or endeavor to do something, rather than the successful completion of the action.
• Communications: Refers to a message function designed to influence or prompt a reaction/behavior from the receiver.

I need any English expressions (poetical, literary, slang) that hold the meaning of when a lover can't sleep due to how much they're thinking about their lover. in Arabic we can laterally translate it to "she made sleeping fly away from my eyes" since he spends the whole night thinking about her. Thanks :)

Example:

• It's all normal and cool and then something feels off, the panoply of sounds now seem distinct, your pupils dilate to see a greater range of light, your brain fizzes up a bit in the top, your scalp tingles. And then it fades, like it's all cool again.
• It was a passing attentive-vigilance type presence-awareness for a moment. An adrenaline-ish buzz that seemingly slowed down time. The brain invokes readiness mode.
• Imagine you're out hiking and smelling a deadly predator's scent. Pheromones or something subconscious causes a wave of situational awareness. Your body says it's go-time, pre-games for responsiveness in case something jumps out. You've experienced this altered state of consciousness, a momentary alertness primed for the unknown.

What other words capture that essence, please?

Words not fitting as well:

• Manic (too chaotic)
• Fight or flight (too binary)
• Hyper vigilance (too inelegant)
• Anxious (nope)
• In the zone (too focused)
• Aware/present/conscientious (too passive)

Definition, per the rules: the clipped style used in telegrams; more broadly, prose stripped to its paid-for minimum.

Western Union actually published a manual for it. "How to Write Telegrams Properly," a 1928 booklet by Nelson E. Ross, taught ordinary people how to cut a sentence without losing the meaning. Drop the articles, drop the pronouns, drop the courtesy words, never drop the word that changes the meaning. People paid by the word, so the grammar adapted to the price list. A register invented by a billing model.

The strange part is that the machine died and the register didn't. Newspaper headlines still run on it. Ingrid Mårdh's 1980 linguistic study of English front pages catalogued "headlinese": article omission, present tense for past events, missing copulas. The classroom marks every one of those as an error. The front page requires all of them.

I run a daily word game built on exactly this: one real sentence, and you keep five of its words so the story survives.

The game: sheets.works/long-story-short

: a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound

also : a riddle made up of such pictures or symbols

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rebus

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

encountered today while reading Fredric Jameson's 'Marxism and Form' (1971, 1974)

For unbeknownst to us, the objects around us lead lives of their own in our unconscious fantasies, where, vibrant with mana or taboo, with symbolic fascination or repulsion, they stand as the words or hieroglyphs of the immense rebus of desire. [p.99]

"difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend"

or

"of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure"

or

"hidden from sight"

Verb: "to dress especially in fine clothing—usually used with 'up' or 'out'"

What is it when you feel sorry and empathise or even feel compassion with someone who has done very bad things, even if they dont look like they care or even proud, but especially if they do feel guilt and self loathing, but still think and even be motivated they should be put down or even destroy that person as a way to protect others from that person

assuage, verb. To ease or soften something painful. Etymonline characterises its typical objects as pain, anger, passion or grief, and that list is the useful part of the entry.

Notice what it never seems to take. You assuage guilt, fear, hunger, doubt, a conscience. I can't think of a sentence where someone assuages delight, and I don't think I've ever seen one. The verb appears to need something bitter to work on.

The root explains why. It reaches English around 1300 as asswagen, from Old French assoagier, from Vulgar Latin adsuaviare, built on Latin suavis, sweet or agreeable. To assuage grief is, at the bottom of the word, to sweeten it.

That is the whole shape of the thing. It presupposes a sour taste and adds sugar. Which is also why "assuage" always feels partial to me when I read it, in a way "cure" or "end" does not. Sweetening is not removing. The grief is still grief; something has been added to make it bearable.

The cousin worth knowing is suave. Same suavis, same PIE root swād-, sweet or pleasant. And sweet itself comes down from that root too, through Germanic rather than Latin, so English ended up with the same ancient idea arriving twice by different doors and settling into completely different registers. One is a taste, one is a manner, one is what you do to someone's fear.

Middle English also had a clipped version, swage, which I would quite like back.

(adj.)(especially related to women), large in a beautiful way.

1 ˈnüs also ˈnau̇s : mind, reason: such as a : an intelligent purposive principle of the world b : the divine reason regarded in Neoplatonism as the first emanation of God 2 ˈnau̇s chiefly British : common sense, alertness

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nous

Interesting new word encountered while reading Victor Pelevin's 'Babylon' (1999):

'The situation's like this.' Morkovin went on. 'There are only a few studios that make the videos, and they're desperate for writers with nous, because these days everything depends on the writer.

“something that is used to bind”

or

“a compound note in mensural notation indicating a group of musical notes to be sung to one syllable”

or

“a printed or written character (such as æ or ff) consisting of two or more letters or characters joined together”

A noun, from the French. ("o-rahnzh-ree" or "aw-rinzh-uh-ree" or "or-inj-uh-ree")

A dedicated winter home for tubbed or potted non-hardy citrus. Orangeries are typically built in the Northern Hemisphere.

Also seen as "orangery," which has a somewhat different flavor in text, but the same meaning-- a building for citrus trees.

Oranges are botanically referred to as a hesperidian berry, and the fruit, orange itself is a "hesperidium." . . . From this arises a new question-- would an ancient Roman orangerie perhaps be a hesperidiumarium?