[he's back - with a bite. now with more pusillanimity. and sex.]
boys and girls, my dear friends and readers, gather 'round:
the word for today is argh.
wait, wait! you say, what bilge is this, ye bletherskate? argh is not a real word, merely a sort of onomatopoeic growl of frustration, anger, or disapproval.
that may be as well, but i put it to you that argh is a real word.
coming to our tongue from a common germanic etymology (cognates in old norse, swedish, danish, various germans, dutch, and others), argh is (foremost) an adjective applied to the cowardly, pusillanimous (p is for pusillanimity!), and timid, or also lazy, reluctant, and sluggish. these two forms are still in use in some scots and northern (england) dialects, while, unfortunately, two other forms - that which is vile and as a noun meaning wretch, betrayer, or enemy - have been lacking from the language for some several hundred years or so.
as a verb, still in dialect, it means to become disheartened or fearful, or to hesitate from timidity. obsolete forms here include to frighten and the extremely curious me arghes, meaning 'i am afraid'. i wish i knew how exactly that was pronounced.
a somewhat abundant word for one that has died out, other versions include the adverb arghly, and nouns arghhood, arghness, arghship, and arghth, all meaning the same thing: pusillanimity! and let that be a lesson to you.
argh is, of course, also the sort of onomatopoeic growl referenced above, but just how do you spell it?
mr. steele may have the answer. just don't go with 'aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh'. you'd suck and nobody would like you. it's likely to be a scarlet letter offense, but i'll leave you to your ignominious ways.
as an initialism or acronym, argh has meant the following. these aren't words, and indeed i have no idea what they mean, but there you have it:
antibodies to rat GH
against rat pituitary GH
antiserum to rat GH
antirat GH serum
acronym resolving general heuristics
association de ringuette gatineau-hull
remarkably, at perhaps you've noticed, the first four have the word 'rat' and 'GH' in them, and tend to ignore the other letters such as pituitary and serum. with this formula in mind, you can pretty much create any a-word leading rat GH acronym you like. try it with your friends. unless you're canadian.
and finally, argh! (and aargh!) are fungeoid esoteric programming languages. do what you will with it.
brainfuck is also one of these, without the fungeoid, and sounds rather a lot more interesting.
it's also something all together different and extremely unpleasant. i won't go into details, but let's just say i've had enough. the neighbors are going to start thinking it's a fetish or something.
but enough already. i'm really just using you, dear reader, to distract myself from all the things i'm not supposed to be doing or thinking about. i don't know what the point is anymore, but there you have it.
the very strange and entirely disturbing picture for today is this. don't look at me, i had nothing to do with it. i don't even know how that works. if you do, great, don't tell me.
in other news, the book for today is vampire thrall by michae schiefelbein. i mean, come on, once a roman officer rejected as a lover by jesus of nazareth, now a vampire still haunted by jesus after two millennia of grisly revenge in monasteries around the world, how could it get any better? well, without kung fu, the works of an italian renaissance artist, pirates, epic metal, and a man in a bear suit?
and now, on that note, a man in a bear suit. oh goodness, the fun never ends.
well, maybe a little.
[fuck off]
the word for today is argh.
wait, wait! you say, what bilge is this, ye bletherskate? argh is not a real word, merely a sort of onomatopoeic growl of frustration, anger, or disapproval.
that may be as well, but i put it to you that argh is a real word.
coming to our tongue from a common germanic etymology (cognates in old norse, swedish, danish, various germans, dutch, and others), argh is (foremost) an adjective applied to the cowardly, pusillanimous (p is for pusillanimity!), and timid, or also lazy, reluctant, and sluggish. these two forms are still in use in some scots and northern (england) dialects, while, unfortunately, two other forms - that which is vile and as a noun meaning wretch, betrayer, or enemy - have been lacking from the language for some several hundred years or so.
as a verb, still in dialect, it means to become disheartened or fearful, or to hesitate from timidity. obsolete forms here include to frighten and the extremely curious me arghes, meaning 'i am afraid'. i wish i knew how exactly that was pronounced.
a somewhat abundant word for one that has died out, other versions include the adverb arghly, and nouns arghhood, arghness, arghship, and arghth, all meaning the same thing: pusillanimity! and let that be a lesson to you.
argh is, of course, also the sort of onomatopoeic growl referenced above, but just how do you spell it?
mr. steele may have the answer. just don't go with 'aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh'. you'd suck and nobody would like you. it's likely to be a scarlet letter offense, but i'll leave you to your ignominious ways.
as an initialism or acronym, argh has meant the following. these aren't words, and indeed i have no idea what they mean, but there you have it:
antibodies to rat GH
against rat pituitary GH
antiserum to rat GH
antirat GH serum
acronym resolving general heuristics
association de ringuette gatineau-hull
remarkably, at perhaps you've noticed, the first four have the word 'rat' and 'GH' in them, and tend to ignore the other letters such as pituitary and serum. with this formula in mind, you can pretty much create any a-word leading rat GH acronym you like. try it with your friends. unless you're canadian.
and finally, argh! (and aargh!) are fungeoid esoteric programming languages. do what you will with it.
brainfuck is also one of these, without the fungeoid, and sounds rather a lot more interesting.
it's also something all together different and extremely unpleasant. i won't go into details, but let's just say i've had enough. the neighbors are going to start thinking it's a fetish or something.
but enough already. i'm really just using you, dear reader, to distract myself from all the things i'm not supposed to be doing or thinking about. i don't know what the point is anymore, but there you have it.
the very strange and entirely disturbing picture for today is this. don't look at me, i had nothing to do with it. i don't even know how that works. if you do, great, don't tell me.
in other news, the book for today is vampire thrall by michae schiefelbein. i mean, come on, once a roman officer rejected as a lover by jesus of nazareth, now a vampire still haunted by jesus after two millennia of grisly revenge in monasteries around the world, how could it get any better? well, without kung fu, the works of an italian renaissance artist, pirates, epic metal, and a man in a bear suit?
and now, on that note, a man in a bear suit. oh goodness, the fun never ends.
well, maybe a little.
[fuck off]