fracking (n) - doing some high-work, low-yield activity because the obvious things are either done or not doable. Optimising minor and unlikely security settings, TV shows killing off characters, governments announcing expensive digital initiatives

#idiolect

https://theonion.com/marilyn-manson-now-going-door-to-door-trying-to-shock-p-1819565904/

Rapture Parking (n) — when cars are left randomly and inconveniently at weird angles and in the middle of stuff, as if the driver has been suddenly taken bodily to their heavenly reward

#idiolect

Great presentation just now by @andreanini on the "Lambda G" approach to #authorship verification implemented in the #idiolect package for R: https://github.com/andreanini/idiolect

Very interesting not just for authorship attribution, but also for #keyness / distinctiveness analysis!

#DH2025

cuticle (n) - a particularly pulchritudinous polycule

#idiolect

Word Search Puzzle 943

Word List : #idiolect #coardent #oxaluric #annalia #busings #umbeclad #bridalty #skiwies #katana #notified #omophagy #prosode #depaysee #markus #unrun #voyeuse #birthbed #matapan

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/28/word-search-puzzle-943/

I didn't know there was an #idiolect hashtag that was looking for people to pay attention to it. This is where I learned the idea of an #idiolect, the notion of an individual specific dialectical form: From a language coach talking about the work involved in impersonating a *person* well, including getting their language right.

https://youtu.be/_6ohUUzh9kk?si=bFJTyWPgnqZAtagB

@derwinmcgeary Tricky! They're such natural parts of vocabulary as to not notice them!

Some #familect ones from @curatedjenny and me:
"Binwards" (in the direction of the bin, although not necessarily all the way into said bin)
"Böking" (The act of wrestling with an unwieldy object like a large box - Swenglish. I can't think of how to write it phonetically in English!)
"I'm small" (Feeling emotionally vulnerable)
"Ketlon" (Putting the kettle on)

I have loads of #idiolect ones too, I expect!

@derwinmcgeary

Am not quite sure my contribution is #Idiolect maybe it's #Dialect ...

R ... pronounced Ar ... meaning "yes"

"Oh R" indicating strong agreement.

Prevalent in the #BlackCountry and #Birmingham areas of the Midlands of England.

(Pronounced rather more curtly than the "Ooooh Arrrrr" attributed to country bumpkins and pirates with peglegs and parrots on their shoulders.)