Recently Discovered Words

[Manalive Smith]

Coparcenary: The state of an inheritance or title being held simultaneously by more than one individual.

[Manalive Smith]

Astragals: A little used alternative to the word dice.
Astragalomancy & Astralgyromancy: The practice of divining the future based on the roll of a dice.

[Manalive Smith]

Those last two may be questionable practices, but they’re unnaccountably accurate when the future you’re trying to divine is how many spaces you’ll get to move on your next turn in a board game.

[Manalive Smith]

Psychometry: The mythical ability to recount an object’s history while touching it.

[Jeff Ross]

After reading these four posts from Manalive, I have this strange suspicion that he was playing a board game with Dawn and wanted to articulate it in an extremely subtle fashion. (This would be an effort to contrast with Dawn’s style of simply blurting things out.)

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

(Isn’t addressing Dawn’s alleged style of blurting things out in this manner blurting something out…?)

[Awkward Potato]

Idiot box: a slang term for television.

[Jeff Ross]

I realize that I made a blunder with my suspicion: “Coparcenary” is not the same as “Polyonymous”. “Coparcenary” is multiple people with the same title, whereas “Polyonymous” is one person with multiple titles.

This brings me to my recently discovered word: Solecism. This noun means:
1 : an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence; also : a minor blunder in speech
2 : something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order
3 : a breach of etiquette or decorum

This word’s origin is a city in modern day Turkey called “Soli”, where the people there became known for their improper grammar and word usage of their native Greek language. The city was destroyed in the first century B.C. and rebuilt by Pompey the Great and renamed “Pompeiopolis”. The city no longer exists today, but there are other people in a city of a different name living in about the exact same spot. Fun fact: That wasn’t the only city called “Pompeiopolis” during the early centuries A.D.

[Manalive Smith]

I was wondering how Dawn came into things. Thank you for the clarification.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

That does indeed clarify things.

[Jeff Ross]

Squalid: Basically, it’s “dirty, gross, and disgusting”, but it has a repulsiveness about it that can be applied to someone who does not show proper moral behavior in a circumstance. Sometimes when referring to things, it implies that the sordid condition is due to poverty.

[Jeff Ross]

Here’s a classic from Manalive:https://auxcableshow.com/community/topic/breaking-4/page/21/#post-19314

[Jeff Ross]

Here’s another classic from Manalive:https://auxcableshow.com/community/topic/thatmomentwhen-2/page/6/#post-12950

[Tongle]

Pickle

[Jeff Ross]

You only recently discovered that word, Tongle, or you only recently discovered that there is more to its definition than you originally thought?

[Milk Monster]

milk isn’t the most recently discovered word I am afraid

[Jeff Ross]

Fear not…and censor m*** on the Not-Forum.

[Manalive Smith]

Apothem: a line from the center of a regular polygon to the midpoint of one of its sides, sounds strikingly similar to the name of a certain marsupial when pronounced with a lisp.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

I had never thought about that before, it really does sound like that.

[Tongle]

Picklechip: pickle chip

[Masøn M.]

Sounds Deschmicious

[Manalive Smith]

Cappadocia: It’s a place. I don’t know why, it’s just been in my head recently.

[Awkward Potato]

Are you planning to travel there or are you just hungry for Turkey?

[Manalive Smith]

Proparoxytone: A word in which the stress is placed on the third from last syllable. I’m not even joking. It’s a thing.

[Manalive Smith]

I think it’s mostly just fun to say.

[Masøn M.]

That will be the name of my firstborn child…

[Awkward Potato]

“Dear Cappadocia, what to say to you…”

[Jeff Ross]

Equanimous: calm and composed, which is totally how we F.A.C.E.s handled the website being down for awhile…

[Manalive Smith]

Cynosure: An archaic name for Polaris, now used to mean ‘central focus’ or ‘guiding principle’.

[Jeff Ross]

Repartee: a quick and witty reply, or a conversation marked by such replies. Ryan and Matthew often engage in repartee on the Aux Cable podcast.

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