what does "consanguinamory" mean?

"I would also include relationships between first cousins as consanguinamory too, although some may disagree with me on that point."

Hypocrite is a bromide.

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@CowperKettle When X is a noun, like "in wolf form" you don't want to use the article "a" almost ever if at all, but when X is an adjective, then you probably would like to, like "in a prettier form".

So when it means "in the form of an X", you write "in X form".

@CaptainBohemian con - with, sanguin - blood, amory - love. a fancy way of saying incest.

@MattE.Эллен I had never seen this word.

I don't think I have either

@MattE.Эллен but you know what it means the first time you see it!?

@CaptainBohemian you gave good context

@Mitch Don't you dare imagine such a game

@Mitch Genau. I could learn the whole content of a book by just watching a video.

Reading books is so boring.

Even with pictures, diagrams, tables and whatnot

@Gigili but some words in a video can't be recognized because they are pronounced too vaguely.

@Gigili I dared. Les jeux sont faits.

Also, in some elementary schools, they've tried to gamify reading books over the summer. When I say tried, they've done it, been around for 40 years or more. Books er week, words per day, something something.

Not gamified, I remember in high school having 5 novels as assigned reading over the summer and towards the end when you're bored out of your skull actually hoping against all logic for the start of school, but realizing you have a week to finish 5 big 'great' novels for which the movie and on-demand videos had not yet been done, having to read Howard's End at clocked 4 pages a minute.

I've found out since it was not the source of the movie 'The Third Man' a mystery about the death of Howard Lime.

I mean what idiot would name a house owned by 'Howard' situated at the end of a lane 'Howard's End'? No goddamit, it's "Manderley" or "Featherstonehaugh Grange" or "Shuckoff Blartnip".

Nobody is even related to Howard.

Stupid book.

It's all part of life's rich pageant.

@Robusto You've been to better pageant's than I have then.

@Gigili You really should read "Reading Lolita In Teheran".

Then you could say "I'm reading "Reading Lolita in Teheran" in Teheran"

Then write a book about it with that title.

But please, put lots of pictures in it.

> My wife is so immature. If I'm in the tub, out of the blue she'll walk right in and sink my boats.

Wait... if you're in Instanbul, that would work.

@Robusto haha. she really needs to grow up.

Is slough related to Dutch sloot?

In which sense? A low depression in often swampy land, or the remnants of a serpent's molting?

Different pronunciations, of course.

The former.

slaʊ vs. slʌf

Yes.

A sloot is a kind of ditch.

Probably there's a common ancestor in there.

It normally always contains water, and it is probably always dug to drain surrounding land.

Yeah.

In OE it was sloh.

Which pronounces the /h/.

> Compare Middle Low German sloch "muddy place," Middle High German sluoche "ditch."

Hmm.

> Sloot: Mnd. slōt; ofri. slāt (nfri. sleat); < pgm. *slauta-.

> Ablautend zn. bij *sleutan-, zie → sluiten. Een sloot diende oorspr. ter afscheiding van stukken grond (FvW).

So it would seem to be unrelated after all.

Really?

Sluiten = to close (off).

Well, where did sluiten come from?

"A sloot originally served to close off land."

Yeah, I'll look into sluiten.

But the semantic field seems to be different.

Too different.

> Sluiten: < pgm. *slūtan- (mnl., os. en ofri.), *sleutan (ohd.). Voor deze klinkervariatie zie → ruiken. Zie ook → slot, → sloot en → sleutel.

> Vanwege de betekenis ligt verwantschap met Latijn claudere ‘sluiten’ voor de hand. Dat woord gaat terug op pie. *kleh2u-d-, zie → klooster. In het Germaans is dan een s-mobile toegevoegd.

Possibly related to Latin claudo < English close.

What is an "s-mobile"?

@Mitch But people would think it's a typo, a title of repetitive words

I suggest using a nice contrast, I'm not reading "Reading Lolita in Teheran" in Instanbul

Then you don't even need to read that book

You can watch an interesting video on the subject instead

I hate it when they say "Teheran"''

@Gigili Kids these days.

that extra quotation at the end was the result of intense hatred

@Robusto Apparently, a mobile s!

unclear on the concept

I'm familiar with e-mobile from "La Donna e mobile" from Rigoletto.

@Robusto che rigolo, Sandro!

But don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

@RegDwigнt Another white Russian heard from.

In other news, RIP Bonnie Pointer.

I saw that.

First funk, then pop, now motown is dead as well.

I hate living at a historical inflection point, btw.

You should move.

I was looking forward to a peaceful old age.

No such thing. Always kids on the lawn and all.

So I've heard. That's why I no longer have a lawn.

In other other news, on my score of Duruflé's Requiem someone just posted a comment asking this:

> How do you manage to have the words pronounced?

I am contemplating telling them that their question is better suited for ELU.

Or you could string them along, listing courses at various universities. But that's probably too much work.

Tell them to ask "why is pronouncing things hard in English"

Instant HNQ

It's even worse. The composer was French. And the Requiem is in Latin.

I do have a yard, and various trees and bushes, which the local rabbit population is constantly using for food and shelter.

And nobody pronounces anything in Latin anymore. Not for the past 5000 years.

I got to use my gold-badge slammer today. Felt kinda good. Usually it's single-word-requests but today it was meaning. Win!

Were they around 5000 years ago?

@Robusto So, what is the meaning, then. Tell us.

@RegDwigнt Life is like a beanstalk. Isn't it?

@M.A.R. nothing was. Not even light. Then there was light. But not then.

@Robusto One benefit of giant nondescript tags

Maybe the only one

Why is English uses word then to mean two words that means different.

@RegDwigнt Surely there was the T-rex and the jeep

Well maybe Sir Richard Attenborough was.

He does look pretty old.

He's way older than that.

That is very interesting. I shall take a note.

Take note there too.

That's a lot of notes.

Which one's up for the taking?

Sir Attenborough's about to get even older

Trump gutted some environmental thingies recently it seems

So far this is basically like Air's The Word Hurricane. Minus the hurricane.

Lots of Dalai Lamas.

@M.A.R. That is literally everyday news.

Holy shit, it is like The Word Hurricane.

@Robusto I assumed there was nothing left

Forte subitos and all.

Here, have a listen. Link to timestamp.

Compare for yourself.

@RegDwigнt Totally derivative. And 31 years late.

Isn't everything.

@RegDwigнt Some things are even later.

Like my comprehension before I've had my coffee.

31 years from now, they'll be copying Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.

You better be prepared for your peaceful old age, is what I'm saying. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Nope. Those will be history, remembered only by old-timers.

Hopes are not facts.

When I was a freshman in college I told my roommate that one day The Beatles would be looked at the way we looked at Guy Lombardo. He flat refused to believe me. But ask a millennial about them today and see the reaction you get.

Why would you ask a millenial about anything. What is wrong with you.

Also, who is beatles.

Sounds like an insect with exoskeleton

Speaking of that, how was München?

Speaking of millennials and asking, I think what that terribly lost person is actually trying to ask me is, how the fuck did I get my MIDI to pronounce the words in my score. Except I didn't. I'm not using MIDI, I'm using an actual recording of a choir with orchestra and organ.

That one millennial can't even tell a midi from a crowd.

@Robusto very rainy.

Also I kept out of the city proper. Basically stayed in a landhouse for three days.

It was very nice.

Did they have a piano_

No, but I had brought my guitar.

I am always prepared for music. Even when everyone else is not.

I usually bring my voice wherever I go.

Such as it is.

Well yes I sang quite a lot.

Mostly in Russian and Spanish but also some English.

The crowd were mostly Costa Ricans.

¡Pura vida!

Vide ton verre plein, remplis ton verre vide !

Which is what we did pretty much nonstop, come to think of it.

And so it goes.

Oh and also I stopped shaving when corona happened, so this time I was sporting a beard that amazed everyone.

That is literally the first time in my whole life that I was unshaved. Well, technically this time and the eight weeks right before it.

Beards are awesome. I feel naked without mine

My newly grown, thin, 21-year-old beard

The beard isn't 21 years old

You should look into clothes.

Can't wear a scarf all the time

Only movie directors can

And right now specifically, there's clothes specifically to replace beards.

We don't have that technology here

That's a pity. The beard reaches maximum impact when unveiled on site.

@Gigili No one can pronounce it.

@Gigili I'm reading "I'm not reading "Reading Lolita in Teheran" in Instanbul" on my phone.

@M.A.R. It's not that beards are so great, but that shaving is stupid.

@Mitch The Chiffons tried it out, but eventually went with "Doolang" ...

@Robusto I can't pronounce that either.

Is it like 'duang'?

I can't say. The only IPA I use comes in a bottle.

Is he related to Duang Johnson?

Haha, I thought you were talking about bread.

Watch it to the very end.

Nothing special happens there but I just want you to waste a couple minutes.

Freshly baked beard out of the oven

ew

don't worry, it's nobody you know.

You'd like it if it was a beard of bees.

@Mitch Is that an order?

@Gigili It's a suggestion wrapped in innuendo, smothered in implicature.

confusedmentlyification tone what exactly is happening here?

yes i just invented a word