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… I’m entirely nonplussed by your use of ‘skunked’.
by Angostura 3y ago
… I’m entirely nonplussed by your use of ‘skunked’.
- notnaut 3y agoWhat’s awesome about words is we can just say whatever bullshit we want and if anyone understands and repeats it, bam, new words! They don’t start off in the dictionary!
- stavros 3y agoI love "anon" for that reason. "I will be there anon!" If anyone complains about me being there either too early or too late, or neither, I point them to the dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anon https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anon It can either mean "now", "soon", or "later".
- seabass-labrax 3y agoOh, how interesting - I had a personal 'eggcorn' interpretation that it was an elision of "and on" (which also makes sense in many contexts), and never connected it to the word "anon" in writing!
- lupire 3y agoWorks the same if you don't say "anon" at all.
- djur 3y agoIt's the term Bryan Garner uses for words that are inconsistent in meaning in a way that makes them difficult to use effectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term I'm not sure what his origin was for the term, but "skunked" as an adjective to me indicates a beer that was spoiled by exposure to light and/or heat. It's gone off.
- allknowingfrog 3y agoIt's a perfectly cromulent word.