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Cugel wrote:

mercalia wrote:not a new word just wonder why it had become popular, emphasising the bodily function that goes on there - EATERY what next start calling loos or toilets shitterys or pisserys?

As I am quite refined, I would prefer "defecatery" and micturatery".

What should we call the hankerchief? "Snotteratery" is too confusing. Is it one or is not one?

Cugel

After learning Welsh you could modernise Esperanto

Council juice: tap water

Quickly reading another thread, I'm not too clear what "breaks" are? I was under the impression that brakes are used to slow / stop a bike?

A break is a breakaway group in a massed-start cycle race
Jens Voigt kept breaking away but did not win much, he got lots of awards for "most aggressive rider", aggression was rewarded
A street was named after him too

gbnz wrote:Quickly reading another thread, I'm not too clear what "breaks" are? I was under the impression that brakes are used to slow / stop a bike?

Breaks are the very poor or non-functioning variety of brakes, so-named as that's what they result in - broken bikes and broken bones.

Cugel

Pod-estrians
Meander-thals
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Smombies
Both used by Stradageek

folderol

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word means a trifling matter, or a meaningless refrain used in a song.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.

yep thats what you are Rees-Mogg

mercalia wrote:folderol

Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.

yep thats what you are Rees-Mogg

Not new, first occurs 1701. Entirely appropriate to Jake Tree-Frog's eighteenth century shtick.

Cugel wrote:

gbnz wrote:Quickly reading another thread, I'm not too clear what "breaks" are? I was under the impression that brakes are used to slow / stop a bike?

Breaks are the very poor or non-functioning variety of brakes, so-named as that's what they result in - broken bikes and broken bones.

Cugel

And Brakes will deliver you a lovely chicken pie to help your recovery when you discover that you have breaks instead of brakes.

Mike Sales wrote:

mercalia wrote:folderol

Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.

yep thats what you are Rees-Mogg

Not new, first occurs 1701. Entirely appropriate to Jake Tree-Frog's eighteenth century shtick.

according to this forum title the word is new?

mercalia wrote:

Mike Sales wrote:

mercalia wrote:folderol

Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.

yep thats what you are Rees-Mogg

Not new, first occurs 1701. Entirely appropriate to Jake Tree-Frog's eighteenth century shtick.

according to this forum title the word is new?

I'm not very clear what you are getting at.
Shtick may be new, to this forum anyway.

Some people drink 'red bull' to keep them going
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I prefer Black Bull (coffee) or Brown Bull (tea)

anti-anti-semitism - those against anti-semitism
anti-anti-anti-semitism . identifies those individuals (anti-anti-semites) who use the ascription of anti-semitism for hidden agendas or political gain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48536402

anti-anti-anti-anti-semitism - the anti-anti-semites regarding the anti-anti-anti-semities as covering up anti-semitism

where does it stop? why this whole matter is confusing

mercalia wrote:anti-anti-semitism - those against anti-semitism
anti-anti-anti-semitism . identifies those individuals (anti-anti-semites) who use the ascription of anti-semitism for hidden agendas or political gain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48536402

anti-anti-anti-anti-semitism - the anti-anti-semites regarding the anti-anti-anti-semities as covering up anti-semitism

where does it stop? why this whole matter is confusing

It's worse than that. Paradoxia can spread like shingles, from contemplation of these lexicographical cogitations! For example:

I am anti the antis and can't tolerate the intolerant. Gawd!

Cugel the confused and confounded

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