On 18 August 2010 16:16, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A small newt. I thought everyone knew that.
>
Nope. Not everyone knows obscure words. Just in the same way I don't
*expect* you to know what pedagogy is.
> By the way, "an eft" became "an ewt" during one of English's many
> upheavals, then "an ewt" became a "a newt", in a reversal of the way
> that "a nadder" became "an adder" and "a napron" became "an apron".
>
>> Feisty Fawn. Bit musty and mouldy? Grovelling about on the floor? Oh,
>> wait, you mean eager? And a deer? An eager deer?
>
> What, you don't know what "feisty" means? Seriously?
>
Correct. The entire post was completely serious.
However:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
feisty
adj 1: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty
challenger" [syn: plucky, spunky]
2: irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy to make
judicious decisions" [syn: touchy]
[also: feistiest, feistier]
So it could well have been irritable rather than courageous.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of something musty being described as
feisty. I thought everyone knew that.
What's that? Different people know different things? That's crazy
talk. People are a homogeneous mass.
>>
>> Monodon. Monoceros. Those are good names. Sound powerful, hints of
>> rhinoceros (and Ubuntu again). Oh, wait, we've already had M in 10.10.
>> Raffish Rhinoceros for 13.04, anyone? Nah, rhinoceros is too well
>> known. It would have to be something like Raffish Roach (that's right,
>> it's a fish, but people will think it's a cockroach. Perfect!).
>
> So you are not sure what a narwhal is, but you think "monoceros" is
> acceptable?
>
Correct. I did not know that narwhals are a whale-like creature that
live in the North Atlantic having a single large tusk, being hunted
almost to extinction by Scandinavian countries, being credited with
starting many sea monster stories (probably even the whole unicorn
thing), despite having plenty of reference in popular culture.
>> Enough ranting. I'll leave you with this:
>>
>> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
>> narwhal
>> it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish,
>> and unicorn whale.
>
> You're just having a bit of a rant, aren't you?
>
YES! OH GOD YES! Did the bit where I said "enough ranting" give you a clue?
You're just having a bit of pedantic facetiousness, aren't you?
Jonathon
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