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my best word this week: jackanape. whats yours?
is there such a word as inclusivity? or can i have a less jargon-y synonym? i am after all trying to apply for the volunteer position of person who can write things without using too much not-for-profit jargon.
talk at will about words in an enthusuastic yet concise manner. go.
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In the olden dayes, this thread would have been called "HELP: I can't think of a word!. But I like they way you've cleverly masked it to look like a proper thread.
Words then. Where to start. My favourite words are as follows:
Charred Lots of letters for one lonely syllable. Rhymes with discard. What more do you want?
Nonsense It doesn't make sense. So if it isn't sense, then what's the opposite? Non-sense of course. This word reminds me that English will always be the most among the most absurd of the world's languages.
Perforate Nice that it can mean something hugely damaging when used in the context of lungs, whilst in everyday use it signifies nothing more than the action of making a row of tiny little holes in a piece of paper.
Malevolent Sounds like it should describe the behaviour of someone who shares characteristics with masculine subterranean insectivores. Doesn't.
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as in "ethanol precipitation of DNA". somehow i seem to have created vast buckets full of the stuff. DNA that is. from worms. in that i harvested a plate of worms, lysed them, removed the proteins etc from the solution of lysed worms, removed the RNA, purified the DNA and its now sitting about 2 metres to my right at 4 degrees celsius.
quote:Originally posted by damo: i harvested a plate of worms, lysed them, removed the proteins etc from the solution of lysed worms, removed the RNA, purified the DNA and its now sitting about 2 metres to my right at 4 degrees celsius.
Now put them back together again. You can't can you? You've broken the worms and you can't put them together again. Go and stand in the corner.
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you mong, i don't want to put them back together. i want their DNA. i have a separate plate of them just 60 cm from my hand now. they are clones innit?
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quote:Originally posted by damo: you mong, i don't want to put them back together.
I bet you do really, deep down.
Could you mutate them a bit (perhaps using some sort of acid???) and then stick them back together and press play? See if you can make a new animal by the end of the day.
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inculcate it's like a posh browbeating
curmurring and its bedfellow borborygmus
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Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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egregious. Because I'm having a Kipling session, and the egregious Beetle is much in my thoughts at the moment. Stalky & Co - the last chapter always makes me cry.
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quote:Originally posted by damo: you mong, i don't want to put them back together.
I bet you do really, deep down.
Could you mutate them a bit (perhaps using some sort of acid???) and then stick them back together and press play? See if you can make a new animal by the end of the day.
i have made a new animal. i took some dna, stuck it to some gold, blasted it at >10,000 worms that couldn't crawl. those that started crawling were new mutants.
next they're going to fluoresce green. no shit.
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On Countdown just now, one of the contestants got the word opsimath. Cue much *shock* and *applause* from RichardWhitely and aged audience. "That's incredible," says Richard. "I've never heard that word before, where did you learn it?"
"Off another episode of Countdown."
Great word though, means someone who becomes a student or learner late in life.
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Should rhyme with leopardy (that is like a leopard...), though there is, of course, no such word.
I love the way that the e and o interplay in the mouth creating a weird vowel of their very own, and I liked the inclusion of the word in Channel 4's Scally teen-drama Scully, circa 1982;
Mooey - Let's go to jeopardy. Scully - What you talkin' about soft la'? Mooey - Jeopardy. Dere's loads of jobs in jeopardy...
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: In the olden dayes, this thread would have been called "HELP: I can't think of a word!. But I like they way you've cleverly masked it to look like a proper thread.
i have a thesaurus, but it doesnt have wanky not-for-profit jargon in it. as i might not have made sufficiently clear, IT boy, i was hoping that some of those good people on here who i know work in the kind of wooly-sweater jargon-loving environments where they use concepts like 'capacity building' and 'inclusion'. because i have three bullet points, you see:
clarity conciseness and...inclusion doesnt work. inclusiveness? doesnt work. i dont think inclusivity is even a real word. i am trying to convey a determination not to exclude anyone by using language that is not clear or concise.
another word i am loving today: speelunk.
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quote:Originally posted by discodamage: and...inclusion doesnt work. inclusiveness? doesnt work. i dont think inclusivity is even a real word. i am trying to convey a determination not to exclude anyone by using language that is not clear or concise.
If it helps, Language in Education/Bilingualism and Education people would use inclusion in the context you are describing.
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Julian Barnes, in the anthology I am currently reading, keeps using "tony"; I think he uses it meaning "worthy", "respectable", "not to be sneezed at", eg. "tony company".
He also uses "atavistic", which is a word I feel I should know.
Astromariner
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Wanky not for profit people use both inclusion and inclusiveness. However! A quick search on my contacts database reveals that more people call themselves inclusion co-ordinators than inclusiveness co-ordinators (ratio 11:2). No need to thank me.
Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by discodamage: i have three bullet points, you see:
clarity conciseness and...inclusion doesnt work. inclusiveness? doesnt work. i dont think inclusivity is even a real word. i am trying to convey a determination not to exclude anyone by using language that is not clear or concise.
another word i am loving today: speelunk.
Actually I think inclusivity is a word, whereas I'm not at all sure about conciseness. Can't you rephrase the slide or whatever so it says "Language used must be: clear; concise; inclusive". Or something?
Also, isn't it spelunk? Although that might be the americano version. I like the Calvin & Hobbes version, where it's the noise made by a big rock dropped in a lake. Spe-LUNK!
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Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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No I'm NOT! [hands on hips] I know my Calvin & Hobbes, and I know whereof I speak. First panel - Calvin says to Hobbes "let's go spelunking" Second panel - picture of them both walking carrying rocks Third panel - pic of them both joyously flinging rocks into the lake - Spe-LUNK! [/hands on hips]
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Can't you rephrase the slide or whatever so it says "Language used must be: clear; concise; inclusive". Or something?
next time i see her, i will be buying octavia a gold-plated pie, out of which will burst a murder of silven crows holding fat doubloons in their bronzed beaks.
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to clarify my last post- whilst i will be buying the golden crowpie for octavia specifically, as it is her idea i have adopted, i would like to suggest she shares it with all of you who have thrown your thoughtpenny into the inclusion pond. i thank you al from the heart of my bottom.
Today I am mostly being blonde and fatuous. I believe this to be as a direct result of the black baby-doll top with turquoise piping that I am wearing today which has the added bonus of making my bajungas look as big as Astro's.
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Curmudgeon. An elderly queen I know is so in love with this word he devises his behaviour in such a way that it is the only word that can be used to describe him.
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what's it called, damo?
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