Word of the Day

This reminds me…I don’t remember the context, probably something to do with School and her English class grades or something, but when my daughter was a preteen, she told my wife and I that she already knew ALL OF ENGLISH, and we busted up laughing so hard. I had to go download that video off my Wyze cams to save it. I had to explain to her that nobody knows all of English, especially when you consider all the archaic words, legalese, scientific and medical words, obsolete words, topic-specific jargon, regional usage, and so many other things. I don’t even know anyone who knows all 171,146 words considered “currently in use” let alone the hundreds of thousands of others. But now I never let her live it down that she already knows all of English. :joy:

Nobody even needs to know “all of English” either. :slight_smile: There would be no point.
But it could be worse. I’m told Arabic has over 12 MILLION words. :exploding_head:

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atomize

What I like to do to the people driving around me.

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Me too. As I pulled up to a 4 way stop this morning three cars were approaching from my left. None of the three even attempted to slow and all three went through the stop one right after another. Makes for good dash cam watching.
There are 4 Big Red Stop signs at that intersection.

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Eastern Europe is like that right now. Which gives rise to the other sense. :worried:

bolt-hole

Wow, I just woke up and had to read that a second time…I thought it said something else
:face_with_peeking_eye:

Surprisingly, I actually didn’t know what a bolthole was…I thought it was a hole that is used for a bolt (like a screw), and wondered why on earth Peep would use this as his word of the day, so there must be an alternate definition I didn’t realize…and I guess it has nothing to do with a metal bolt at all…it’s a hole that a person or animal can “bolt into” to escape and hide. For me, my home office is my bolthole…my fortress of solitude. My 16yo uses her bedroom as a bolthole.

I actually kind of like this word…a bolthole, somewhere or something to escape into to get away from it all…literally or figuratively. I like it. I will definitely be using that word now.

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Yeah, for bolt the verb, it was horses for me, then surfer lingo for vamoose. First time I’d seen bolt-hole was today - and in the sense you described.

If bolt is also To eat (food) hurriedly and with little chewing; gulp, then a bolthole, is a piehole, but omnivorous. :grin:

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pain point

https://forums.wyze.com/search?q=%22pain%20point%22

algorithms

AI are algorithms. But algorithms is not necessarily AI. Correct?

Call it what you want but it needs to go back to school. :grin: If the tree on the right of my driveway sways in the wind I get a (Vehicle) event recording of my truck parked in the drive.
Here is a Person Event.


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He’s doing the best he can!  :boy:

tragicomic

prolix

Tain’t funny McGee!

Something I used to hear occasionally as a kid. Turns out it’s Molly, from long running radio show Fibber McGee and Molly (1935- …1611 episodes!)

Another, “You’re a hard man, McGee”, a good buddy would toss at me in the 80’s. He delivered it well (being also a fan of WC Fields.) :slight_smile:

Which is the best word for ‘incontinent’?

Watercooler
tips-and-tricks


S,O. thinks this is funny. She’s a little jejune. image

vagaries

…and how to handle them gracefully.

remuneration