David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊Apr 19
#USA #vocabulary #Lexicon #Amerika 🤣🤣🤣 No wonder #Starmer feels at home there. His #Parliamentary history built on a tissue of lies. Llb (Law, nor exactly top drawer). Only one of many Deputy (i.e. Second) Attorney General. Yes, I know 'good' on Human Rights but I sense more a chancer than ethically +ve. My Westminster Mole says, 'not very good'.
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awesome / awful

When I typed awesome into the search box* on urbandictionary.com, the first definition that popped up, authored by someone who goes by the apt screenname of Spleenvent, is: Something Americans use to describe everything. [* = Your results may vary. This is what I got when I searched for the word

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Rodger Thorm (he/him)Apr 2

If I was to set up a site for a Lexicon game, would anyone be interested? Does anyone even remember it?

#lexicon #ghyll

NonilexMar 12

#GiftArticle

These #Words Are Disappearing in the New #Trump Administration

As Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents.

#language #lexicon #idiocracy #law #FreeSpeech #hate #bigotry #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.jG-_.8PguMhaAVg8I&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

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Frode #FellaMar 4
#Norway knows what's up. This is from the free #lexicon SNL.no that is free to use and maintained by universities and non-profit organizations. On "most read" yesterday is #ketamin and #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder. I wonder why... And on the "unusually popular" list is #BudapestMemorandum.
Bluesky

Bluesky Social
qtcFeb 2
#lexicon #music #sfx
- Location: www.interface2-studio.de

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Art FaliroJan 29

“Minus craic”

Irish slang

Something, a vibe, moment or habitus that is super-bad and which you can safely skip and avoid

a bad moment, opposite of fun or a good time

#Irish #slang #lexicon

Ham on WryJan 22

Now that trump is in the WH, it’s fair to say that “Truth, Justice and the American Way” can now be completely removed from the American lexicon.

#lexicon #justice #law #america
#trump

michael fulgenziJan 17

Anybody out there still saying "far out"?

#lexicon #colloquialisms

Valannō LyoreJan 13

Week 3:

trabein [ 'tɾa.beɪ̯n ] - to push, to press.
transitive verb, object in dative case.

pragudi traben - I am pushing the vehicle

aorist: etrāpsa
perfect: tetrabū
medium/reflexive: trabethein

#conlang #conlangs #language #languages #linguistics #valannic #lexicon @conlang

The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑Jan 6

 
Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg

❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo

🔗 https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html 2025 Jan 06
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg … #AnuGarg

#Community #TimeTravel #Research #vocabulary #lexicon #words #glossary #English #Time #Kronodon

elsewhen

adverb: At another time.

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