Picture(s) of the Day

[emo_snal]

I've added pictures to my recent travelogues. Since all the pictures from my phone auto upload to google photos now and its easy to link to them there, but hard to embed them (I have to download them from google and re upload to flickr to do that), I'm probably doing more linking vs embedding nowadays.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Ooo, I like that. It's like adding "meister" to things.

[emo_snal]

Meister is an interesting one because I think the connotation is good, but in a kind of whimsical way. Monger I have to admit sounds like you're insulting someone by calling them an anything monger.

[wpadmirer]

True. I mean, there is the word whoremonger, for example. That's definitely not good in any way.

[emo_snal]

Somoene who.. collects whores? The only modern usage I can think of is like "rumormonger." I think there's an ironmonger street in geelong here.

[pondhopper]

That is a really lovely perspective in the above photo.

[emo_snal]

Thanks! (:

[gaeln]

'To which Tiffany pointed out that to make a post about contentmongers was to become a contentmonger. And then I attained great enlightenment.'
I can see why you might. Pretty darned profound of her to make that connection. Lovely photo BTW. And I gotta say, I always enjoy a good linguistics discussion. Thank you!

[emo_snal]

I thought I had an "etymology" tag, because I think I posted at least once before about etymology (and I think you had also commented about your enthusiasm?) but I apparently have no such tag nor remember what the entry would have been about :-/

[gaeln]

I remember a discussion we had once about the Star Trek work Fereng and how, I think, it meant something in some real language or other. Could that be it? Because, you are right, I do have an interest in etymology. g
Good remembering!

[emo_snal]

Hmm I feel like it was something more recent? I don't think I've talked about Ferengi lately ;D

[pundigrion]

Costermonger I nknew, but rort is a new one to me!

[emo_snal]

Apparently it's common in Australia. One Australian commented to my facebook post about it that she had no idea it wasn't a word everywhere.

[kk1raven]

I've definitely seen content-monger used to refer to people whose job is to manage content at websites. It seems to me that there's a piece of software with that name too.

[emo_snal]

Ah. Those namemongers!! ;D