Pulling My Leg - English Language Usage thread

[Tortoise]

I think the media coined the word “bigly” when they didn’t think Trump properly enunciated the two words in the phrase “big league” and mocked him for it. Then Scott Adams further popularized the neologism by including it in one of his book titles.

I disagree with a lot of Scott Adams’ positions, but he definitely has expertise in persuasion and psychology.

[Mountaineer]

I could not decide whether to post in this Pulling My Leg thread or the Lockdown thread so I flipped a coin - it came up (or would that be down) on its side so this thread won out. Thus, my question, for all self-proclaimed experts who are with me on coin flipping as a prefered method of making important decisions:

Is the relationship between locked up and locked down, anything at all like the relationship between knocked up and knocked down?

And, the bonus question: Does significantly big-time mean it's even a bigger big-time than a regular big-time?

Is anyone down with that?

[Tortoise]

Is the relationship between locked up and locked down, anything at all like the relationship between knocked up and knocked down?

How about tearing up a piece of paper vs. tearing down a structure?

[vnatale]

I'm completely fair game for you and anyone else believing that I'm doing the same as I'm accusing others of doing.

I don't have a problem with colloquialisms like big-time, nor with "a little (bit)", which I probably use daily.
You see why big-time falls under the same category, right?

Possibly. Except I don't hear that many people using it, do you?

And, in my example I really meant "big-time".

In statistics we'll say something is "statistically significant". Meaning that it's just not noise. It has some meaning. I was using "big-time" to say that not only did it pass the significance test but that it was hugely significant....not "a little bit" different.

[Smith1776]

This forum is so bizarre sometimes I love it.

[vnatale]

This forum is so bizarre sometimes I love it.

Agree!

And, you always and regularly add your apt touches of bizarre-ness to it!

[Smith1776]

Agree!

And, you always and regularly add your apt touches of bizarre-ness to it!

Indeed. We're just a bunch of gold hugging weirdos and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[dualstow]

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And, in my example I really meant "big-time".

In statistics we'll say something is "statistically significant". Meaning that it's just not noise. It has some meaning. I was using "big-time" to say that not only did it pass the significance test but that it was hugely significant....not "a little bit" different.

Well, then you should have said huge-time.

[vnatale]

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And, in my example I really meant "big-time".

In statistics we'll say something is "statistically significant". Meaning that it's just not noise. It has some meaning. I was using "big-time" to say that not only did it pass the significance test but that it was hugely significant....not "a little bit" different.

Well, then you should have said huge-time.

See if we can agree on this one...

Have you ever heard anyone say "misnomer" when they clearly mean "misconception"?

[dualstow]

All the time. Misnomer when they should say ‘myth’.

[vnatale]

All the time. Misnomer when they should say ‘myth’.

I hear "a little" and "a little bit" with great frequency.

However, I can go months on end without hearing someone make the misnomer / misconception mistake.

However, I am always shocked when obviously highly educated people make that particular mistake.

[Hal]

is a misnomer when you misgender a lgbtq gnome?

http://www.newnownext.com/england-shopp ... s/07/2019/

[Mountaineer]

is a misnomer when you misgender a lgbtq gnome?

http://www.newnownext.com/england-shopp ... s/07/2019/

Do you think I should modify my signature to accomodate the most tender of the tender snowflakes? Maybe something like the following.

“It who denies the existence of the two sexes (male and female), has some reason for wishing that male and female did not exist.”

[Hal]

is a misnomer when you misgender a lgbtq gnome?

http://www.newnownext.com/england-shopp ... s/07/2019/

Do you think I should modify my signature to accomodate the most tender of the tender snowflakes? Maybe something like the following.

“It who denies the existence of the two sexes (male and female), has some reason for wishing that male and female did not exist.”

For Mountaineer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7xqZPA7sw