As mentioned in a previous post, I assisted someone at work in getting their laptop connected to our wireless network. The user was Chinese, and I greeted her with a friendly nihau. A few weeks later I was assisting a user in Personnel. “I heard you are a valuable asset to our company,” she said. […]
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Category: words
“My mom was high when she made my name.”
“May you inherit a hotel of a hundred rooms, and may you be found dead in every one of them.”
My friend Kaleb, another logophile, coined this phrase. It describes the phenomena when a wife addresses her husband with a sentence beginning with, “We need to…,” and by this statement what she means is, “You need to….”
n. A government by women, especially at home. “…instead of being a subject to his Majesty George the Third, he was now a free citizen of the United States. Rip, in fact, was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under […]
n. South-African colloquialism for a hookah.
n. British slang for either a fish and chip shop, a carpenter, or a prostitute.
n. That miserable feeling you have November 1 from eating too much candy the night before.
n., a vacation during which you just stay home, either by choice or dictated by finances. Speaking of which, I’m on it for the next two weeks! See ya.
n. A word coined to describe the recent trend in women’s and girls’ Halloween costumes to be increasingly immodest and/or trashy.