Comments on: Four letter words

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:08:06 +0000

alas, ‘pash’ is 19th century…..

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:04:17 +0000

Aww sorry Alex (the mysteriously upfront one)… I’ll try tell my filter not to be so rude next time.

By: James

James — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:20:26 +0000

Joel’s comment spam filter can be somewhat aggressive. Maybe it doesn’t like your 1337-speak… damn, now I’ll get blocked

(the real question: are you Upfront or Deferred?)

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:12:13 +0000

I wrote a beautiful post yesterday about noob, 1337, bong and meme. Where is it?

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:17:23 +0000

Never heard the word frot before…

By: James

James — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:26:00 +0000

PS Joel leaves unsaid that this was all his idea. In his defence, he didn’t pull out the dictionary.

By: James

James — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:24:47 +0000

Oh, and how could I forget ‘frot’?

By: Alex Feigin

Alex Feigin — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:57:55 +0000

I seem to remember reading somewhere that “noob” could be the millionth word in English. Another new word is “1337″, although technically it is not composed of four letters.

Bong

a water pipe used for smoking cannabis or other drugs.
- ORIGIN 1970s: from Thai baung, literally ‘cylindrical wooden tube’. (OED)
[or shouldn't it be "ODE" (Oxford Dictionary of English)?]

Apparently also:
(Climbing) a large piton.
- ORIGIN 1960s: probably imitative.

But not a completely new word due to:
a low-pitched sound, as of a bell.
- ORIGIN 1920s (originally US): imitative.

Another word I thought of is “meme”:
- ORIGIN 1970s: from Greek mimma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene. (OED)

Man, it’s too bad I missed this party.

By: Galina

Galina — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:57:30 +0000

And Pash is definitely my fave!

By: James

James — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:55:36 +0000

Hmm… Barf? Suck? Grok?