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'Cray,' 'YOLO,' 'Amazeballs' Added to Oxford Dictionary
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| August 14, 2014
Posted on 08/14/2014 10:53:30 AM PDT by don-o
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I have a suggestion. Let's invent a word and use it repeatedly on FR. Then, see if we can get it into general use. We have a lot of clever people - let's have a go at it.
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:53:30 AM PDT
by
don-o
To: don-o
I cringe whenever I hear someone say "cray-cray". Just drives me nuts.
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:56:05 AM PDT
by
MissTed
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To: don-o
You can’t be series. That is a hugh thing to expect from a viking kitty.
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:56:31 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: MissTed
what does “cray cray” mean? I am thankfully out of touch.
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:56:59 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: MissTed
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:57:04 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
I have.
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:58:11 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: don-o
We are living the Idiocracy.
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:58:43 AM PDT
by
erod
To: don-o
The people at Oxford dictionary should be ashamed of themselves legitimizing ghetto trash speak.
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posted on
08/14/2014 10:59:16 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
Means "crazy".
"Oh my gawd!! That is sooooo cray-cray!!"
Learned from my teenage daughter.
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posted on
08/14/2014 11:00:16 AM PDT
by
MissTed
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To: Mamzelle
Crazy. Kind of an infantile thing, take the first syllable of a word and double it, like a baby would call a bottle a “bah bah”.
To: MissTed
I used to have a crayfish named Cray. What does it mean now?
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posted on
08/14/2014 11:09:57 AM PDT
by
MNDude
To: don-o
Cray?
To: don-o
Cray?
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To: dfwgator
Never heard of Robert. Seymour, OTOH...
He designed and combined nice furniture, heat pumps , and computers together.
To: don-o
Stupid. It’s like the movie Ball of Fire where Gary Cooper eagerly writes down all the latest slang....that was completely forgotten in 10 years. That’s why lexicographers have traditionally avoided bothering with slang because it’s so ephemeral.
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posted on
08/14/2014 11:37:13 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
To: don-o
Wow. I’m young and I haven’t ever heard the last one come out from the mouth of my peers.
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posted on
08/14/2014 11:54:18 AM PDT
by
Politicalkiddo
("Never do anything against conscience, even if the State demands it." -Albert Einstein)
To: don-o; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
Oxford’s gone street cray cray.
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posted on
08/14/2014 12:04:22 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: don-o
I’ll buy my dictionary at the used book store. It needs to be at least 50 years old.
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posted on
08/14/2014 12:05:09 PM PDT
by
marron
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