words people make up?!?!

[hrh_disney_queen]

This may even be a real word, although I've never heard anyone I know say it. I hear it on the "Judge" shows, and Maury Povich: Conversate...as in, "you know, we would conversate about how much money he owed me..."

Also....I know it's been around for a really long time, but at what point did "disrespect" become a verb?

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

This may even be a real word, although I've never heard anyone I know say it. I hear it on the "Judge" shows, and Maury Povich: Conversate...as in, "you know, we would conversate about how much money he owed me..."

Also....I know it's been around for a really long time, but at what point did "disrespect" become a verb?

"Conversate" is not a word...it should be converse, but disrespect has been a verb since 1614 according to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=disrespect

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

Oh, one of the newest I've heard is "craptacular"...for an absolutely awful day. I giggle at it, and have on occassion used it.

 

[MM27]

Sped is a derogatroy term and as a parent of a special needs child, I find it highly offensive, not just frustrating. Though hearing it come from an alleged professional is frustrating.

Why is SPED offensive? Not only is it used in schools (by the members of the special ed department) but colleges use it to to label classes (SPED 500) and to identify the entire department. It's a common abbreviation, although usually in all caps.

 

[AshleyW]

My fiance's family says 'dewberry' for 'wheelbarrow'. Apparently when he was little, DFi didn't know what it was called so he just made up a word for it - dewberry - and now that's what they all call it.

 

[MinnieTink]

Some good giggles from this thread!

My Pop was from Italy and he always said things wrong or would shorten them for whatever reason. He would make "stewit" (stew) and eat it with a "spoom" and maybe some "crack" (crackers) LOL. He had so many!

I could have used that word "hangry" when I was pregnant!!

 

[laurie31]

I've heard it both ways -- I'm wondering though if "crank" was original from eons ago when you possibly had to "crank" a phone to get it to work?

I know there are lots of words that were typical way back when that made perfect sense at the time they were used. However, they stayed the same, technology changed.

For example a simple one is I still have a hard time with stamps -- I STILL call it a "book of stamps" when it is now a sheet of sticker stamps. Remote controls have been known to be called "clickers", etc...

Then again my mom made up a name "Thungary" for a piggy bank she uses with the grandkids at her house, she gives them change to put in it. It was completely by accident. She was trying to say Thirsty & Hungry and it came out "Thungary" -- and that name has stuck to that piggy bank ever since.

Mine is "dialing" a number on the phone. The TV used to have a dial too - remember when they used to say "Don't touch that dial - we'll be right back!" before the commercials? LOL!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

"Conversate" is not a word...it should be converse, but disrespect has been a verb since 1614 according to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=disrespect

I know it should be converse. But it is a word-slang anyway according to several online dictionaries, probably started popular usage back when Maury and Judge X shows started up!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conversate

Main Entry: conversate
Part of Speech: v
Definition: to socialize and chat; to converse with another
Etymology: back-formation from conversation
Usage: slang

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Conversate

Main Entry: con·ver·sate
Pronunciation: \ˈkän-vər-ˌsāt\
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): con·ver·sat·ed; con·ver·sat·ing
Etymology: back-formation from conversation
Date: 1973

It hurts my ears to hear it. I think it is one of those words that was misused so much that they finally gave it an entry in the dictionary.



I think I found the site for showing disrespect as a verb. I took this interesting excerpt to make me feel better about absolutely HATING the use of it as a verb:



"The Oxford English Dictionary states:

"Disrespect, v. trans. The reverse of to respect; to have or show no respect, regard, or reverence for; to treat with irreverence.

"1614 WITHER Sat. to King, Juvenilia (1633) 346 Here can I smile to see...how the mean mans suit is dis-respected. 1633 BP. HALL Hard Texts N.T. 11 If he love the one he must disrespect the other. 1683 CAVE Ecclesiastici 231 (Basil) To honor him, and dis-respect his Friend, was to stroke a man's head with one hand, and strike him with the other. 1706 HEARNE Collect. 26 Apr., He was disrespected in Oxford by several men who now speak well of him. 1852 L. HUNT Poems Pref. 27 As if..sorrow disrespected things homely. 1885 G. MEREDITH Diana I. 257 You will judge whether he disrespects me."

(Read about the work involved in compiling the first OED, and you'll really appreciate all those different references to the word's use in print: http://www.write101.com/W.Tips351.htm )

So, maybe disrespect was used as a verb 400 years ago, before the noun form became the favourite son ... but doesn't that tell you something? It was tossed out because it was an abomination!

In my research, I discovered some really scary definitions ... perhaps the worst was this:

As a verb, disrespect has two meanings:

1. show a lack of respect for

2. disesteem; have little or no respect for; hold in contempt

Disesteem? Dis-bloody-esteem?

See above for AARGH!

From the Compact Oxford:

noun: lack of respect or courtesy.

verb: informal, chiefly N. Amer. show a lack of respect for.

DERIVATIVES: disrespectful (adjective) disrespectfully (adverb)

Note that its use as a verb is considered informal now and is confined chiefly to North America. So a word to our 'Murkin cousins ... if you love us at all, remember those immortal words of Aretha Franklin:

Ooo, your kisses (ooh)
Sweeter than honey (ooh)
And guess what? (ooh)
So is my money (ooh)
All I want you to do (ooh) for me
Is give it to me when you get home (re, re, re ,re)
Yeah baby (re, re, re ,re)

Ummm ... No, that's not what I meant at all ...

First verse perhaps:

(ooh) What you want
(ooh) Baby, I got
(ooh) What you need
(ooh) Do you know I got it?

OK ... that's not right either ...

(ooh) All I'm askin'
(ooh) Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)

That's better. See? All we want is a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Then you can, "Find out what it means to me," and forget about disrespect as a verb!"




http://www.write101.com/W.Tips411.htm

 

[momrek06]

My DS is always saying "CHILL-LAX"...I believe it is a combo of chill out and relax....I think it is from Family Guy!!!

 

[mickeyfan1]

Well let me state the obvious. All words, whether they are from 100BC or today were "made up." They all started somewhere. Who decided that the colour Blue would be called Blue and not chimpanzee? Words and word use get made up everyday and some eventually become part of everyday speech. Words also get forgotten, due to lack of use. You don't hear "How are thou?" any more, do you?

 

[Becky2005]

Mine is "dialing" a number on the phone. The TV used to have a dial too - remember when they used to say "Don't touch that dial - we'll be right back!" before the commercials? LOL!

Wait? It's not called dialing anymore? What in the world is it called? Now, I'm going to have to call a wrong number since I thought it still said "The number you have dialed is not in service" or some such thing. Now I'm trying to figure it out. Maybe it says "The call you have made can not be completed as dialed" -- I should try that one since we have to use area codes for all calls (including the 1). It still calls it dialing...

And YES...I DO remember the "Don't touch that dial" and even actually having dials.

Ack...you've just made me old & all confused.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Mine is "dialing" a number on the phone. The TV used to have a dial too - remember when they used to say "Don't touch that dial - we'll be right back!" before the commercials? LOL!

I've told this story on the DIS before. We were watching Nick at Night and this commercial came on. My daughter looked at me and said, what are they talking about, what dial? I told her that TV's used to have a dial that you had to get up to turn to change the channel and another dial to change the volume. She was flabbergasted. Then she says, but mom, we have like 700 channels?! I burst out laughing at that one. Then I told her we only used to have 7, so it wasn't a big deal. The look on her face was priceless.

 

[hanutedmansionmomma]

Sped is a derogatroy term and as a parent of a special needs child, I find it highly offensive, not just frustrating. Though hearing it come from an alleged professional is frustrating.

Lordy lord. so sorry to offend thee with my job title! be thankful I went to college for 6 years to earn it and work with the little ones - we're very short handed in my field...can't imagine why


thanks to everyone who has taken this thread with a grain of salt! this is the "just for fun" board, no?


I have another one...jaguar pronounced as jagwire

 

[a1tinkfans]

My dh BOSS always says he can't "FANTOM" this or that....
(FATHOM!) We always LAUGH about it!

OH, and the other is a friend of ours that says...he has to "sprackle" a room????SPACKLE!!


BUT brings back memories.........
my ds when he was REAL little, used to always say, Mommy, put on the "windwipers" and Daddy is working on the "oilyburner" (which he always was ) so freaking cute!!! But at least he had an excuse, he was a CHILD!!!

 

[MNFootballMommy]

That you are mystified is not surprising......

It's really a commom sense issue and thinking about how you treat others, what labels you hang on them.

Any time you reduce these kids to a "Sped" (Sped classroom, Sped teacher, etc), and lump them together not knowing the unique challenges they have, is to marginalize them.

Ask any of them how it makes them feel.

Your job title is something along the lines of Special Education, not a made up word ( the practice you say you hate) that can cause pain to these kids.

I guess you didn't get the compassion and empathy class huh? Ask any of the kids what they think about the term, how other kids use it to refer to them, and how it can hurt them.

Good luck with that.

I, too, am the parent of a Special Needs child and was not at all offended by the use of the acronym 'sped'. It is a common abbreviation nowadays in the field (yes, I am also a teacher) and is not meant to be offensive, but rather just a shortened version of a job title. That's all. Nothing else.

'Chillax' and enjoy the fun!

 

[torinsmom]

DS used to call the railroad guard things "dinger-dongers" for some reason. I don't even know what they are really called, but I still call them that sometimes, LOL

Marsha

 

[TCPluto]

I, too, am the parent of a Special Needs child and was not at all offended by the use of the acronym 'sped'. It is a common abbreviation nowadays in the field (yes, I am also a teacher) and is not meant to be offensive, but rather just a shortened version of a job title. That's all. Nothing else.

'Chillax' and enjoy the fun!

I guess you need to send your message to all these kids whom are hurt by the term.

They didn't get the memo where you said their feelings shouldn't matter.

 

[JerseyJanice]

I work in special education and this first time I've ever seen anyone offended by someone else calling it "sp ed" (there should be a space). It's just a shorter way of writing "special education." The term "gen ed" is just as common--an abbreviation for general education. I don't get why a PP is so offended by that. What are we supposed to call special ed teachers if not that?

But while we're talking, is there such a thing as a "hanuted" mansion or is that a made-up word too?

 

[TCPluto]

I work in special education and this first time I've ever seen anyone offended by someone else calling it "sp ed" (there should be a space). It's just a shorter way of writing "special education." The term "gen ed" is just as common--an abbreviation for general education. I don't get why a PP is so offended by that. What are we supposed to call special ed teachers if not that?

But while we're talking, is there such a thing as a "hanuted" mansion or is that a made-up word too?

This works.

Anything co-opted to denigrate these kids (as sped is), as common sense and a little understanding dictates, shoudn't.


Hanuted..... Sounds Finnish.

 

[SamRoc]

I really hate when people us the word "chillax" My niece uses it everyday on facebook! she says things like "im going to chillax with a glass of wine" or "had a rough day, going to chillax on the couch!" i cant stand that word!