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Title: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 12:05:37 AM
ITT: stupid shit I say or write irl is cataloged so I don't have to shit up random threads with it, or keep track of random threads to see the number of likes the stupid shit I say or write irl gets when I post it.

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Centralized planning. :rejoice
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7/15/2014
Approximately 18:30

"Damn girl, have you read all of Judy Blume's oeuvre?"

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In the course of this conversation I made fun of Forever just for you, Drinky.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Atramental on July 16, 2014, 12:11:16 AM
My vocabulary is going to expand so much because of this thread.  :rejoice
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 16, 2014, 12:19:48 AM
You should start taking requests to insert certain words into a random conversation. Along those lines, if you could somehow work "proboscis" into a conversation sometime, I'd really appreciate it.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Positive Touch on July 16, 2014, 12:20:28 AM
finally, the bore has its malek replacement arrive
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 12:24:43 AM
You should start taking requests to insert certain words into a random conversation. Along those lines, if you could somehow work "proboscis" into a conversation sometime, I'd really appreciate it.

That's a tough one, I don't usually talk animals or use animal metaphors. I'll see what I can do. (http://i.imgur.com/KnxS9xm.png)
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: toku on July 16, 2014, 01:12:39 AM
Do your thing karkand. Ride it all the way to oblivion.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2014, 01:32:28 AM
Is this where we meet to discuss how to destroy the family?
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 01:37:02 AM
Is this where we meet to discuss how to destroy the family?

Wither it away benji, GOSH. (http://i.imgur.com/mBUXqRS.png)
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 16, 2014, 01:37:12 AM
I can't wait to stick my proboscis into that new Judy Blume book!
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2014, 01:45:40 AM
Wither it away benji, GOSH. (http://i.imgur.com/mBUXqRS.png)
For some reason I like this better with Karl looking the wrong way. It's like he knew you were fucking up thanks to dialectical materialism and now can't even look at you now that you've done it.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 01:47:14 AM
It also has that "shoddy craftsmanship" air to it (sorry Esch) which just fits actually existing socialist output so well.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 01:59:07 AM
Oh snap, I have therapy hella early tomorrow morning. I can DEFINITELY fit a completely-inappropriate-for-vernacular-word like proboscis into that somewhere. :rejoice
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: CajoleJuice on July 16, 2014, 02:01:06 AM
"I will eat your pussy"
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2014, 02:21:34 AM
It's sad to say that Benjipwns Freedom LLC recently suffered a tragedy in which all of its records were lost on a ship that sunk to the bottom of the ocean shortly after a series of cooperative investigations begun in coordination with OSHA, EPA, the IRS, DEA and other fine agencies of the federal government into its business practices. Luckily, Benjipwns Liberty LLC was recently founded in a Swiss Canton and hopes to provide further support for the production of liberty-positive emoticons and chemical waste disposal.

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Bastiat being obscure makes me  :fbm
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2014, 02:45:32 AM
I was more lamenting there in general than a direct response to your post because how dare you attempt to coerce me into replying to what you want you statist pig.

How it goes Smith, then Ricardo/Say, then there's nobody (because admitting Marx is too on the nose for the "serious") until Keynes and Hayek, then Freidman. Sometimes you get Fisher thrown in there, but never Bastiat who is still in that gap between Say and Fisher. (And rarely Mises for that matter even among "friendlies" who Hayek admits he just rewrote and cleaned up around the edges.) I think sticking Bastiat and Marx in that Say-Keynes gap does a much better job of outlining political economy.

Look at us exploiting the means of production from Karakand in his own thread.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 04:12:28 AM
Look at the bricolage of high and low itt already. :rejoice This thread is going to deliver.

Minor quibble, it'd be Benjipwns Liberty GmbH, not Benjipwns Liberty, LLC. And it'd be founded in Zug, not a canton to be named later. :mynicca this ain't Major League Baseball, it's international tax avoidance.

#thedualities of the Red knowing more about international tax avoidance than the Black-Gold. :lawd

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I have to commend you on going with the LLC doe, it's very difficult to pierce its veil, even in failed statist dystopias like Unistat.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: king of the internet on July 16, 2014, 09:53:50 AM
I wish I wasn't too stupid to follow the conversation in here.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2014, 01:22:53 PM
I wish I wasn't too stupid to follow the conversation in here.
Or are you the smartest one of all being free from the weight and guilt of knowing?

(http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/troll.png) This is because Mises and Marx belong in the Religious section of Barnes and Noble, not Business or Philosophy.
This actually makes me wonder if my local Barnes and Noble even carries anything by Mises. Human Action I would assume could be the only possible one.

The site can't tell me if a store has any copies of anything? What kind of low rent operation is this B&N? Freakin walmart can. The closest walmart near me has no copies of anything by Marx or Mises available. I can only get the Communist Manifesto and Capital sent to the store for pickup. I feel like I should spend the six bucks on the Manifesto SITE TO STORE just because duality. (Since it's the one with the hot introduction from Gareth Stedman Jones.)
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2014, 01:55:22 PM
I think Rand, Hayek and Freidman would be the leaders. Economics in One Lesson is probably up there. I wouldn't be surprised if more libertarians read Ron Paul's books before Mises if they ever got around to the latter.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 06:15:53 PM
Missed my appointment this morning because I couldn't fall asleep until 6:00.

If I can't work proboscis into a sentence prior to next session, I definitely will in next session.

And this break gives me the opportunity to come up with a better sentence in which to use proboscis than the one I hammered out while lying in bed staring at my ceiling this morning.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2014, 08:27:51 PM
Why we still got libertarians?
Market failure.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: chronovore on July 16, 2014, 09:52:14 PM
Why we still got libertarians?

Just letting them breed until we have a sustainable herd for farm stock.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 10:00:08 PM
7/16/14
Approximately 17:15

[In response to a story whose purpose was to solicit my advice about how to handle a neighbor reneging on paying their half of a wall repair.]

"At this juncture I'm reminded of a line from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"--which [my junior year high school English teacher's name] absolutely abhorred but had to teach our class--'Good fences make good neighbors.'"
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: CatsCatsCats on July 16, 2014, 11:18:32 PM
So verbose, much words wow amaze


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I know I'm not adding much here but I sure enjoy this
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 16, 2014, 11:52:59 PM
7/16/14
Approximately 20:45

[In response to a story of someone's boss diving into river water that was 3 feet deep and breaking their leg as a result to "save" their child who had jumped into the river but lost hold of the raft in which the family was travelling.]

"I understand the inextricability of the parental instinct (well, in an abstract, impersonal sense), but how can any of your boss' daughters take him seriously now when he admonishes them to look before they leap?"

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Does the scene setting add to or detract from these?
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Rufus on July 17, 2014, 03:02:10 AM
Oh setting the scene adds a LOT. But there is something to be said for not knowing too. You should go case by case. If it sounds completely incomprehensible without context AND imagining the possibilities could be amusing, leave it out.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Brehvolution on July 17, 2014, 09:17:33 AM
7/16/14
Approximately 20:45

[In response to a story of someone's boss diving into river water that was 3 feet deep and breaking their leg as a result to "save" their child who had jumped into the river but lost hold of the raft in which the family was travelling.]

"I understand the inextricability of the parental instinct (well, in an abstract, impersonal sense), but how can any of your boss' daughters take him seriously now when he admonishes them to look before they leap?"

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Does the scene setting add to or detract from these?
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A :comeon look would be more concise.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 17, 2014, 08:53:59 PM
If I could text Coli emoticons or reasonably approximate them irl with my facial expressions and / or body language, I would be able to save myself from at least 25% of the things I'll be posting itt. :larry

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7/17/2014
Approximately 17:00

"It's common sense that common courtesy is no longer common. And god help you if you find yourself in a Commonwealth."

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I find reading this in James Cagney's voice makes it sound better.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 18, 2014, 10:36:41 PM
7/18/2014
Approximately 19:30

"I'm wrapping up at the office and then going to a client's soiree."

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As soon as I said soiree brehs... instant :snoop in my mind. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME. :stahp
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Mandark on July 18, 2014, 10:39:43 PM
Yeah, using it in that context was pretty unnecessoirée.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 18, 2014, 10:41:57 PM
Well, it is an evening party and it does have a purpose (schmoozing). :larry

Still doe. :snoop
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 19, 2014, 07:03:34 PM
7/19/14
Approximately 11:45

"It's my 'guilty polluter' assuager."
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 22, 2014, 06:13:56 PM
7/22/2014
Approximately 15:00

"I meant that in an admonishing sense, not a salutary one."
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 22, 2014, 06:17:58 PM
7/22/2014
Approximately 15:00

"I meant that in an admonishing sense, not a salutary one."

(http://www.quickmeme.com/img/96/9642ed212bbced00885592b39880ec55218e922245e0637cf94db2e41857d558.jpg)
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 23, 2014, 05:03:04 PM
7/22/14
Approximately 22:00

[In response to someone lamenting that for once in their life things aren't going easy (professionally).]

"And you've found that flummoxing?"

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Apparently the gerund of flummox (flummoxing) is considered informal speech by lexicographers, which makes this bit of communicative upchuck that much better imo.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 23, 2014, 05:36:30 PM
7/23/14
Approximately 9:45

"In these operations I'm like a proboscis on an invertebrate. "

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Not my finest work, I really shouldn't take requests.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Yeti on July 23, 2014, 05:51:43 PM
 :rofl
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: chronovore on July 23, 2014, 05:56:52 PM
7/22/14
Approximately 22:00

[In response to someone lamenting that for once in their life things aren't going easy (professionally).]

"And you've found that flummoxing?"

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Apparently the gerund of flummox (flummoxing) is considered informal speech by lexicographers, which makes this bit of communicative upchuck that much better imo.
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Sadly, I used flummoxed twice in verbal conversation last week; in my defense, it was my first extended period with a fellow native English speaker in months and I was feeling my oats, so to speak.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 28, 2014, 07:55:08 PM
7/28/14
Approximately 00:15

"Do you know Marcel Proust?" [Waits for affirmative answer.] "Well FUCK that guy and FUCK involuntary memory... triggering fucking bullshit." [Drains shot of vodka]

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On an ironic note, I went out drinking to forget about something and was successful in this respect, but then later today the person I went with asked me why we were drinking so hard and I wracked my brain trying to figure out why and in a "eureka!" moment remembered why but also what I had been trying to forget.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on July 30, 2014, 02:14:43 AM
7/28/14
Approximately 15:15

[In response to someone saying that it was too late to change things now that they'd started.]

"Alea iacta est."

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If I had just said the die is cast I doubt it would have registered, but to add insult to injury I just blurt out Latin. :snoop

e: I bet my pronunciation was really bad too because halfway through iacta I realized what I was doing and my voice just started trailing off. :snoop :snoop
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 06, 2014, 05:08:11 PM
8/6/14
Approximately 9:20

"There is some iniquity for which there can be no absolution."

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:snoop
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:stahp
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:stahp
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:snoop
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:tocry
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: chronovore on August 23, 2014, 05:53:13 AM
You may actually be rubbing off on me

:teehee
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 23, 2014, 01:38:35 PM
Leading by example. :rejoice

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8/22/14
Approximately 17:35

"Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the Snake Dog IPAs of war."

Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: team filler on August 23, 2014, 02:16:49 PM
This thread is why the internet was created and this privelege is hittin'!
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 25, 2014, 02:01:37 AM
8/24/14

(http://i.imgur.com/hKneHVz.png)

Bonus round:

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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 25, 2014, 02:39:30 AM
I only picked it because all my posts are :trash. Don't avoid the literal, friend. :hitler

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"You're kind, Mr. Kandinsky."
"No, no, no, you must call me Korsakov. You old Reds knew all about false names, hmm? Trotsky's name wasn't Trotsky, Lenin's wasn't Lenin."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0707326/
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Momo on August 25, 2014, 04:58:06 AM
I came here for Karakand's diction vomit, instead I find this Sovok impostor. This thread is a lie, give me my money back
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 25, 2014, 05:08:57 PM
8/25/14
Approximately 14:00

"You might have stapled it to something else inadvertently."

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Know how to say :ufup as delicately as possible brehs. :whew
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Yeti on August 25, 2014, 11:42:15 PM
I sat in this thread for five minutes trying to come up with a joke involving Czechoslovakian Novel and Chekhov's Gun but I couldn't  :fbm
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 25, 2014, 11:58:55 PM
I sat in this thread for five minutes trying to come up with a joke involving Czechoslovakian Novel and Chekhov's Gun but I couldn't  :fbm

When Jozef Gabcik grabbed his Sten on the morning of May 27, 1942, you might have thought that The Hangman's end was to be in a hail of bullets, but the thrilling conclusion was far more explosive than that.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 26, 2014, 12:00:58 AM
Please end my existence.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on August 27, 2014, 04:49:35 PM
Hope this helps you cheer up: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=127196186&postcount=81
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 28, 2014, 12:24:11 AM
Hope this helps you cheer up: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=127196186&postcount=81

Like any revolution struggle of national liberation, you will have small bumps imperialist interference as well as those wreckers allied complicit with the old corrupt system ancien regime sabatoging the changes engaging in counter-revolutionary activity. These fake revolutionaries girl gamers will be found out in time descried and justice will be done purged.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 28, 2014, 09:12:36 PM
Today in class I learned it's perfectly acceptable to pluralize premium as "premia" instead of "premiums." I can't wait to run this bit of pretentious word substitution into the ground at work. :rejoice
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 12:34:02 AM
I think perhaps this is the closest I will ever feel to the pride a parent feels.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Atramental on August 29, 2014, 12:34:08 AM
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 03:22:45 AM
If you only remember 2 things about me, remember that (1) I'm emotionally distant in situations where it could improve a bond if I wasn't and end up damaging it instead as a result and (2) I disappoint pretty much everyone.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: toku on August 29, 2014, 03:56:35 AM
 :goty2
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: CatsCatsCats on August 29, 2014, 01:19:53 PM
Brothers :rejoice
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 03:11:43 PM
:goty2

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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 05:41:57 PM
Gonna use this to LJ since mac having a rough bit of it in Random Talk.

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This thread was already a journal anyway. :goty2
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Basically said, that boy needs (logo)therapy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE) instead. :goty2 No fucking shit, amirite? :heh

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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on August 29, 2014, 05:49:32 PM
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I gave them permission by signing some form to discuss me with each other, but they still do things this way, it's like some kind of passive aggressive mental health care.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 05:55:27 PM
I did the same thing! (Especially since I usually don't have 2 professionals simultaneously.)

They don't do my job, why I gotta do theirs too? :beli
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on August 29, 2014, 06:08:09 PM
The part I hate about that is going in to talk about meds and he's all "how have things been going" and I'm trying to remember like three to six weeks worth and summarize it and I can only really remember like the last week or so and how I feel that day colors everything. When he probably could have called up the other guy and spent five minutes getting some deets/opinions from his records.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 06:14:53 PM
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on August 29, 2014, 06:28:09 PM
Yeah, the short sessions really play into that. You spend like five or ten minutes jabbering in almost generic terms and then a couple minutes deciding what to do with the meds and schedule an appointment. Last few times it's felt like him trying to schedule an appointment took ten times as long as making the semi-predetermined by standard schedule med decisions.  :lol

Though I imagine most people wouldn't want to spend 90% of the time discussing all the various medications and pondering options like I do and just want to push a complain button, something awesome has to happen. So they go by the schedule tables. Though my guy has slowly been moving towards offering up more of those choices than just "keep the same or change? up the dose?" after we found out I'm basically invincible to Lexapro and its family and I was frustrated enough to be like "let's just try something from a complete other side of the spectrum instead of tinkering around the edges."

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So he gave me fifty bucks and an address for a bridge to buy crack under.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 06:50:13 PM
"Push a complain button, something awesome happens." -BioWare ca. 2019

Seriously though, that sucks breh (and it's scary). Do you think you were always invincible to it or just built a tolerance over time?

Stay safe, pls.

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I already have dibs on being the Bore's DFW. White Man was stripped of this privilege in absentia by a people's tribunal.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on August 29, 2014, 06:58:52 PM
Might be something like natural tolerance, it only did anything for like the first week where I got more sleepy and stuff for a bit which every medication seems to do when I first start it, and we kept upping the dose and it wasn't doing a thing. So finally he was like, carefully double your dose for a week and see if you feel any change whatsoever and if the change is bleeding out your eyeballs go to the hospital. Nope, bupkis. So he gave me another thing, that I forget the name of, but it's like basically the same active drug with slight changes in the rest of the pill to confirm, and he basically said that I must be a one percenter. (Like I didn't already see the 2012 election results.)
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 29, 2014, 07:16:11 PM
So he gave me another thing, that I forget the name of, but it's like basically the same active drug with slight changes in the rest of the pill to confirm, and he basically said that I must be a one percenter. (Like I didn't already see the 2012 election results.)

:dead
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on August 31, 2014, 11:12:18 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/KN0szc1.jpg)

(I was drinkin slivovitz while building furniture in my underwear cuz it's so fucking hot.)
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on August 31, 2014, 11:25:47 PM
(I was drinkin slivovitz while building furniture in my underwear cuz it's so fucking hot.)
Yeah, it is.  :drool
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 03, 2014, 04:44:00 PM
This morning was so bad. I'd say it was diction ass vomit instead of my usual diction vomit.

I really wish I'd recorded the conversation because I can't even remember a tenth of it, but I do remember it was :snoop after :snoop.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 06, 2014, 09:34:05 PM
Took Green Shinobi's bad advice to write something. Check out this grade A bullshit.

Quote
I yen not to impart Kantian sanctimony when I tell you this, nor offer counsel of a paternalistic character; I speak only as one who has, does, and always shall—inveterate for a century of centuries.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Rufus on September 07, 2014, 03:24:09 AM
Shawn Elliott came close to this thesaurus baiting style in his reviews back in the day. I still want to slap him for it. He does it even on Twitter when he's not posting cringe videos or weird pictures (which is why I check in).
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 08, 2014, 05:13:26 PM
9/8/14
Approximately 14:00

"A veritable smorgasbord."

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I had to follow up the blank stare I received with, "Many things." :goty2
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Barraco Barner on September 08, 2014, 09:50:16 PM
I like your words.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Yeti on September 08, 2014, 11:16:52 PM
I've used the phrase "veritable smorgasbord" before, and I'm a dumb. Don't feel too badly about that one.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Rufus on September 09, 2014, 03:10:30 AM
Yeah, even second language learners like me know that one. If anything you lose some style points for using something that looks suspiciously like a common phrase.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 09, 2014, 04:11:02 AM
I think it's pretty obvious that every post in this thread loses me points. :heh
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Rufus on September 09, 2014, 04:21:00 AM
Well...
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 09, 2014, 05:22:00 AM
I just want to voice my disapproval of this Sovok dude taking over Karakand's thread

Shit ain't right

It's long been speculated that the original Karakand posts are pseudepigraphical, and that Karakand himself may have never even existed.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: chronovore on September 11, 2014, 09:32:36 AM
9/8/14
Approximately 14:00

"A veritable smorgasbord."

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I had to follow up the blank stare I received with, "Many things." :goty2
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I've used the phrase "veritable smorgasbord" before, and I'm a dumb. Don't feel too badly about that one.

Surprisingly commonplace and trite. Looks more like something I'd write.  :-\
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: T234 on September 12, 2014, 01:14:35 AM
My favorite was "why don't your conference get honest and have a real CCG?"

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Yes I know.
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 12, 2014, 02:44:31 AM
SECamus was one of my all-time greatest moments. :lawd (Even if no one got the joke of using "upcoming" instead of "up and coming".)

(http://i.imgur.com/JNk7iSU.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/2zlbS8j.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/IkK9Jht.jpg)

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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on September 19, 2014, 08:16:49 AM
Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006), Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly. Appl. Cognit. Psychol., 20: 139–156.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.1178/abstract;jsessionid=118732DD192C65C0DF5AE2A1D8CD7E04.f03t03
http://personal.stevens.edu/~rchen/creativity/simple%20writing.pdf
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 19, 2014, 12:52:53 PM
Knickerbocker uses parsimony in his first sentence and then tries to write a paper fronting. :heh
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 19, 2014, 09:24:33 PM
On a serious note, I'd just like to say that in my (limited) anecdotal experience I agree with the broad premise of that paper.

e.g. My sibling was not raised in the same manner as I was* and when they'd ask me to read their school papers it was quite obvious that they were using words they'd fished out of a thesaurus to conceal their poor writing instead of just writing well or reviewing their work as a whole and looking for areas of weakness... you spent that much time looking for words to replace, why not look for ways to improve your content?

*
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In case you missed the origin story awhile back, my parents never talked to me like I was a child when I was a child--even a small one--because that's the obvious thing to do. The consequence of this is that I will inadvertently gravitate to words from a high register in English because they seem natural to me even though they're inappropriate for the circumstance or subject. I can understand why people think I'm whipping out a thesaurus or trying to front but you can't understand how crippling it is to think amenable is a perfectly acceptable every day word. Contra, consider my use of the word itinerant which I formally learned in school for SAT prep. I know that's not a normal word and I know exactly what it means (people don't get that I don't actually know the exact meanings of a lot of these words, I only have a feel for them derived from contextual childhood reasoning) and thus rarely use it.
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OT: I forgot to forward myself the email and pick out the choice bits for this thread, (it'll have to wait until next week sadly) but I had to communicate on behalf of one of the nonprofits I work with in writing today (this is a rare occurrence) and that shit was rank in its punctiliousness brehs. :lawd

I'm glad I only consciously draw from the well in representative situations or when I'm angry, I'd be even more of a recluse otherwise. :whew
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Rufus on September 19, 2014, 09:45:11 PM
(people don't get that I don't actually know the exact meanings of a lot of these words, I only have a feel for them derived from contextual childhood reasoning)
Implicit learning is boss.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: benjipwns on September 20, 2014, 12:59:08 AM
On a serious note, I'd just like to say that in my (limited) anecdotal experience I agree with the broad premise of that paper.

e.g. My sibling was not raised in the same manner as I was* and when they'd ask me to read their school papers it was quite obvious that they were using words they'd fished out of a thesaurus to conceal their poor writing instead of just writing well or reviewing their work as a whole and looking for areas of weakness... you spent that much time looking for words to replace, why not look for ways to improve your content?
I like when they use the thesaurus in Word and don't actually check the meaning of the word.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 22, 2014, 05:17:37 PM
It means liar in a made up language. Seemed fitting at 3 whatever this morning when I was reading the book it came from. :yeshrug

Operating your personal brand through shell companies. :aah
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Rufus on September 22, 2014, 05:20:21 PM
:lol

Sigh, I don't know about you, man, but I like you.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Yeti on September 23, 2014, 12:09:38 AM
 :comeon

at least you kept the avatar the same
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on September 24, 2014, 04:29:21 PM
Since people have real problems / grief in Random Talk and this thread is now just a place to express dislike of my personal brand(s)...

My therapist and shrink refusing to talk to one another has become so bad the former insists that I should get a second opinion instead of just talking to the latter about why they have the medical opinion that they do. :neogaf

SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG IF I'M THE ONLY ONE IN THE ROOM(S) WITH A PASSING RESEMBLANCE TO AN ADULT IN A SITUATION. :stahp

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I also hate wasting precious session time being a messenger / devil's advocate. :tocry
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On a more nefarious note, and in light of my newfound lease on life (which in actuality is my old, cretinous lease on life), my therapist telling me they didn't know how they could do their job without being able to help their patients was taken by my subconscious as a sadistic challenge instead of something to hope for. :shaq
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on October 02, 2014, 08:15:40 PM
I just said "parlance" like it was a French word instead of what it is. (i.e. With a voiced uvular frictive for the R.) :snoop

Then I followed this up by saying the "franc" in "Swiss franc" like it was a French word, which at least it is, but still. :snoop

KILL ME NOW :stahp

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This client and I have a never ending passive aggressive back and forth whenever we talk about Bern, they say it the German way and I say it the French way which they think is wrong and correct my pronunciation the way a person who gives a shit about the can/may distinction will correct someone. HELVETICA IS A PLURALISTIC NATION. RECOGNIZE, MEC. :swisscry
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Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 23, 2014, 11:19:57 PM
SECamus was one of my all-time greatest moments. :lawd (Even if no one got the joke of using "upcoming" instead of "up and coming".)

(http://i.imgur.com/JNk7iSU.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/2zlbS8j.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/IkK9Jht.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/OmuSviS.jpg)





joseph gordon-levitt has not aged well. 
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on October 24, 2014, 10:26:13 AM
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/4440812771.html

Fuck you Esch. This shit turned me the fuck on and I can't do nothing about it because I'm not a fucking Trot and can't even pretend to be one.
Title: Re: Karakand's diction vomit journal
Post by: Kara on October 31, 2014, 02:20:56 AM
10/30/14
Approximately 19:45

"I like your shirt."
"It's a telnyashka."
"What's that?"
"A shirt."

:snoop

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Insert Esch 1 liner here.
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Fucking love this shirt. :lawd I'm going to by an OMON one to go along with my naval one I think. :-[
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