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"wrowd": a portmanteau for "wrong crowd". "Take care, you don't want to hang out with the wrowd". "aut": a logarithmic unit of measurement indicating the level

"wrowd": a portmanteau for "wrong crowd". "Take care, you don't want to hang out with the wrowd". "aut": a logarithmic unit of measurement indicating the level of automation of a process. "I think we can get another couple of auts out of the sentiment-analysis pipeline." "settea": a genus of shrubs in the family Settaceae.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago
Re: wrowd. The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. Now we have wrowd, maybe it will fare better.
- thaumasiotes 10y ago
  > The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. I frown on casually lying to people over the internet. The term 'OK' originally stood for 'all correct'. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-stand-for http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-st... You're trying to allude to NOKD, which is (1) completely unrelated, and (2) not lost.
  - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
    Nah. Alluding to the usage of the word in my youth. But go ahead, defer to authority and call names! This is the internet after all.
    - thaumasiotes 10y ago
      Are you claiming that a usage from your youth predates ("originally meant") the usage of 1838?
      - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        And for something as trivial as a two-letter acronym, does the first appearance in print cement it for all time? Does it constrain conventional usage forever? I'd check out some other acronyms to get an idea of their various usages and meanings over time. There's a site for that.
        mywittyname 10y ago
        In the context of "originally meant" (your words), yes, the original meaning of a word is going to be its meaning when the word first came into usage. Sure, word meaning can change over time, but their original meaning shouldn't.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago

Re: wrowd. The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. Now we have wrowd, maybe it will fare better.

thaumasiotes 10y ago
> The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. I frown on casually lying to people over the internet. The term 'OK' originally stood for 'all correct'. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-stand-for http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-st... You're trying to allude to NOKD, which is (1) completely unrelated, and (2) not lost.
- JoeAltmaier 10y ago
  Nah. Alluding to the usage of the word in my youth. But go ahead, defer to authority and call names! This is the internet after all.
  - thaumasiotes 10y ago
    Are you claiming that a usage from your youth predates ("originally meant") the usage of 1838?
    - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
      And for something as trivial as a two-letter acronym, does the first appearance in print cement it for all time? Does it constrain conventional usage forever? I'd check out some other acronyms to get an idea of their various usages and meanings over time. There's a site for that.
      - mywittyname 10y ago
        In the context of "originally meant" (your words), yes, the original meaning of a word is going to be its meaning when the word first came into usage. Sure, word meaning can change over time, but their original meaning shouldn't.