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Atom's Vocab Recap (Featuring Atom)
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Get ready to re-learn your Vocabulary from the last couple of months of episodes! Danny is out sick today, so let's just review all of our new vocabulary words so we don't forget them. Or did we forget one or two? Dang I can't remember. Anyway, just listen to me ramble about words and almost choke to death -Atom
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Introduction and Hosting Change
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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. This is your best buddy Adam here from that's our queue and role players and all the other places that you like to see me. Daniel is out sick today and has been for quite some time. Poor guy. Wish him all of the well wishes.
00:00:16
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I don't by the time that record this he's probably feeling a lot better but still crummy enough that you know doing a recording might not have been the best for your ears or for his health.
Vocabulary Words and Their Origins
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So here i am to do a quick little episode for you not to specifically answer any questions but i thought it would be fun just to quickly go over all of the vocabulary words.
00:00:36
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that Danny has taken upon himself to find through his random generator of word and from his mother, which I believe she supplied one of the words on our list. So he compiled what he thinks is all of the words that we've learned. Hopefully it is. If it isn't, hey, whatever, you're still learning some more words today. So I'm just going to go down the list, maybe. And I have a very poor setup for all these words. I literally have like 15 different tabs open with dictionary words on them.
00:01:03
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So hopefully they match whatever he told me that the definitions were. So without further ado, we're just going to get into it, guys. There's a lot of words to cover and we're just going to go through them. So.
00:01:16
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Let's go with the first one, which is Mount Weasel. We all remember Mount Weasel. Oh, yeah, by the way, these are in no particular order and they're not an episode order or anything like that. It's just however they were thrown into a word list. This is what we got. All right. So let's see.
00:01:35
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Also, if you notice any strange cuts, my drink just tried to drown me, so I was choking a bit there. Might be more choking to come. I don't know. That's probably a sexy sentence for someone. Also, sorry if you hear all of my clicks. Here we go.
Exploring Unique Words
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First word.
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Mount Weasel is a decoy entry in a reference work such as a dictionary or encyclopedia, secretly planted among the genuine entries to catch other publishers in the act of copyright content.
00:02:13
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So essentially, you know, they put a fake word and some publishing thing somewhere, maybe in like a work or maybe even like an article somewhere, because they probably suspect that someone has plans to or has already copy copied them in the past or they just make it up just to see if people are copy and paste them into those, you know, you know, the book reports we used to write when we were kids, they'd have like one of those little plagiarism checkers. Wonder if Mount weasels popped up in there, too. I've probably said something similar.
00:02:42
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Now I can't imagine a way that I would ever use this word outside of just been like, Oh, Hey, did you know what Mount weasel means? Um, but Hey, there it is. Now everybody's favorite word, crumulent. We all know this one. I hope that you're all using it out there. Um, you know, it means to be acceptable or adequate. The example sentence I'm looking at says the continental breakfast was perfectly crumulent.
00:03:09
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You know, anytime you think to use the word adequate, just replace it with cromulant. And you know, people are like, oh, cromulant, you say. Adequate is also more than cromulant word to use. But cromulant is also more than adequate word to use. You see what I'm saying? So there you go. Next one, nigh. We know this one. Everybody knows nigh. N-I-G-H, nigh. The end is nigh.
00:03:32
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I've been waiting, you know, nigh on two years for this, the, you know, she wonders but seems to remain nigh the sea essentially just means to be near something or almost happening, or something is just about to be just
00:03:49
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you know typically it's kind of an old timey term that I don't think a lot of people use anymore except for the end is nigh because that pops up a lot but I mean you know we could bring it back it's easy you know I don't know I don't think nighly is a word because I would say oh he nighly hit me but or that hit was nigh to my chest I don't know figure it out all right next one
00:04:16
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Souseros now this one apparently I still typed in wrong son of a bitch this word has my number I just don't understand when my brain can't remember how this is spelled so Do it again? Suss or us I typed it in wrong again. No. No, it's just a it's it's there's a sandwich of Of these these use and then and then and then the two Rs and it just oh
00:04:46
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Alright, anyway, we're going to go to webster.com because it was so weird. So Sussar is Suss S U S and then Urus U R R U S. There's a lot of S's and U's and R's just squished together. Like it's just three letters just replicated across the whole word and it just my brain just can't. It just can't. I don't know why. It's like the word guarantee like Danny guarantee. I'm like are there two R's? Is are there two
00:05:15
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You know, is it just one R? G-U-A-R-A at note? Two R's? Shit, now I can't even remember that.
00:05:22
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Damn you, and I look at his name all the time and I still can't remember. Anyway, Susseris is a whispering or a rustling sound. It is a noun, so you can like, maybe hear a Susseris. Although I don't know if I noticed before, but there is also... Well, before I get to that, it also makes sense.
00:05:46
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Susseris kind of has like its own little like secret-y, you know, that kind of hard S followed by the ending of an S and kind of like a snake or like a shush or shush. Susseris. So I kind of, it's like the word surreptitious. Like the reason I remember that is because it's also a very sneaky sounding word. Surreptitious. But anyway, this is Susseris, a whispering or rustling sound or Susserint apparently is the adjective, but Susseris as a noun,
00:06:16
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also seems like its own adjectives. That's kind of weird. But susserant wasn't the word that we learned, so moving on.
Diving Deeper into Vocabulary
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Speaking of hard S words, we have somnolent. That's S-O-M-N-O-L-E-N-T, somnolent. I hope you're all writing these down somewhere. Remember your words of the week, the day, the month. So somnolent is an adjective to mean.
00:06:39
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of a kind likely to induce sleep, inclined to or heavy, with sleep, drowsy, sleepy, somnolent. Let's see, there's a question on Google that says, is somnolent the same as lethargic?
00:06:56
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It is possible to have a patient who is somnolent or even lethargic and still oriented. Somnolent is sleepily lethargic, very drowsy, falls asleep in between care. Apparently this is from a medical student website looking at it. Somnolent defined as a state of drowsiness or strong desire to fall asleep. Well, all right then. Let's go to Webster's website just to see if they have a sentence for us somewhere.
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trying to teach somnolent students on a very hot day, the somnolent hum of insects in the grass. See, now somnolent and Susseris in that particular instance seem like they could go together because maybe the somnolent Susseris of insects in the grass. See, now you have two that you can work on. Susseris could make you somnolent depending on what the noise is. There you go.
00:07:51
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All right, next one, probably one of my favorite words, insouciant, I-N-S-O-U-C-I-N-T, the insouciant, showing a casual lack of concern, somebody who is indifferent. It's just a very fun word.
00:08:10
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Now, we described it as carefree, which it could be. Actually, funny enough, one of the questions is, is insouciant a positive word? Insouciance has its roots in the French, meaning not, and saisouciรจre, meaning to care. Giving the English word its uncaring meaning. Insouciance can be a positive state, like the childlike insouciance you feel when you're watching cartoons instead of paying your bills.
00:08:38
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So yeah, you could be insouciant and more of like a carefree, but it also could just mean you're indifferent. Like, I'm insouciant to that thing that's happening. I don't really care. It doesn't affect me that much. I'm insouciant. But it could be like, oh, they use the word insouciance as a noun here. The insouciance you feel when you're watching cartoons.
00:08:59
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What is someone who is insouciant? Free from concern, worry or anxiety. Carefree. Oh, nonchalant is not a great word. Love that word. It's one of the fanciest words I know. Nonchalant. All right, so that's insouciant. To be carefree or indifferent, depending on the context of your statement or question. All right, next word. Oh, now this one's tough. I don't know if I would use this one that much, but imponderabilia, or abilia, sorry, excuse me.
00:09:29
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So it's imp like impossible imp and then, you know, or rather I am ponder ability.
00:09:36
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And it is things that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated. Now this is the noun, imponderables. Um, seems to be another way to do it. Uh, I believe that Danny gave the instance, the imponderability surrounding human life. Um, no, yeah, it is a tricky word. I don't know if I guess you could probably use it for like emotions, the upon durability of human emotion, but it sounds more like something you would put on like,
00:10:04
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I don't know the title or the subtitle of like a fancy research paper you're typing. Yeah, this is another one that I don't think that I would at least at this state with how my brain has downloaded this word into it. I don't think that I would use it.
00:10:20
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But it's a fascinating word that I would like to get better at using. Maybe we'll go back through these words sometime and just practice some more. Practice your vocabulary, guys. This one is definitely not in my own personal lexicon as comfortably just yet. Next one.
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Janik. Ooh, I think this was a Kimmy word. Janik. Straightforward and fair. Upright. Decent. Um, you know, well, let's look at some synonyms for Janik. Uh, some other synonyms. I mean, uh, so that's J N that's J A N N O C K by the way. Um, now how can, now I have found an interesting, now I am on dictionary.com for the word of the day.
00:11:13
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And it was January 29th, 2024. Apparently when it was a word today, somewhere on there, it said something that one of its synonyms were carefree as well. And that cannot be right. Oh, Hey, whoa. Whoa. I'm scrolling through the words right now. I'm seeing a ton of the ones that Danny used before. Insusiant is on here. Heteronim.
00:11:38
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That wasn't one of our words. Get out of here. Get out of here. Get out of here. You're gonna get distracted. Get out of here. What are you doing? Commodious. I remember that one. We're going to get to that one. Honest, fair, straightforward. The Janik approach of the coach brought out the best in her players. The Janik businessman refused to engage in deceptive practices. Of unknown origin, Janik. It's a mysterious word.
00:12:05
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It has been applied to a type of oatbread, Yannick bread, first recorded in 1825 to 1830. Interesting.
00:12:15
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So if you should be anything in life, you should be efficient, and you should be jannic. Be fair, straightforward, get to the point. Be jannic. Again, not one I think that I would use, it doesn't pop into my brain, but I like the, but like other words, like insouciant, insoucerous, and cromulant have definitely been ones I've used more since we learned it. Here's one that I have definitely used more. I don't know why my brain remembers it.
Understanding Amusing and Obscure Words
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And I just mentioned earlier when I got distracted is comodius, C-O-M-M-O-D-I-O-U-S.
00:12:45
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I-O-U-S is such a fun way to spell something. I-O-U-S. It's like I-O-U-S? Who's S? I don't know. Let's figure that out later. Commodious, especially our furniture or our building, roomy and comfortable. They move to a more commodious dwelling. That's the form. Well, apparently the archaic version of it is convenient. But some synonyms. Some synonyms. Some synonyms.
00:13:13
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Do you ever just like to intentionally say something wrong on purpose to be funny for so long that then your brain makes you think, oh, that's how you're supposed to say it? That's what that was. I say synonyms a lot just to be funny. And now I said it by accident just because my brain thought, oh, no, that's what it is, because that's how you always tell me it's supposed to be said. Stupid mouth. Anyway, let's say, yeah, so roomy, capacious, capacious, dang, capacious.
00:13:42
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That doesn't sound like a word that I would use to mean roomy. It sounds more like how I imagine like a turtle shell is supposed to look. Maybe I'm thinking carapace. I don't know. Spacious. Ample. Ample is a great word too. Substantial. Generous. A commodious amount. A commodious place. Somebody asked, what does it mean to be a commodious person? Commodious means roomy. Earlier meanings are beneficial or useful as well as serviceable. Comes from the word convenience.
00:14:11
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Commodious space and arguably has its benefits and conveniences I don't know if you can be a commodious person, but I guess you get well I guess one of the one of the synonyms are generous. So I guess you could be a commodious person But I think it's mostly meant to be you know roomy spacious You have room to do something or like they said per homes or furniture. I love it I don't know why I remember it. I think our joke was that it was like a toilet demon or something. What do you know?
00:14:36
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Now, this is a word that I downloaded into my head for the wrong reasons, as we mentioned in the episode we talked about it in, you know, in Monty Python. So am I reusable? Have I said something reusable? There's something funny, laughable, ridiculous, it's absurd, it's comical, it's amusing. Just you can use anything
00:14:57
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that you could say is like, Oh, it was such a, you know, it was laughable. It was hilarious. It was so absurd and silly. You could use the word visible and that's R I S I B L E. That's what the a bull word sometimes really get me. We're like, it's either able A B L E or I B L E. And so the A B L E usually means that something could happen. But the I B L E, I still haven't figured that one out when it comes to language structure.
00:15:24
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But what do you know? Anyway, risible. Such as to provoke laughter. A risible scene of love making in a tent. Like in Robin Hood, Men in Tights. Risible, but they weren't really making love. They were, um...
00:15:36
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They were just singing behind a curtain, but you get it. All right, up next is Cavill, such as Henry Cavill, to raise trivial or frivolous objection, and that is C-A-V-I-L. The author cabbled about the design of the book's cover. It's a transitive verb, to raise trivial objections to.
00:15:57
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So as Danny so eloquently pointed out, it's like to bitch about something, to complain about something. You know, I often think about this in like very first worldy situations, especially now in a world of convenience that drives me mad. Like, you know, what?
00:16:15
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You mean this product that I want to order from Amazon doesn't have two day shipping? What the fuck? Amazon or what the fuck store seller? Whatever to me, that's that's cattling. You're cattling about something that's so you're still going to get the thing. Someone's going to bring it to you. So what if you can't get it in two days? Like you don't have to go to a store to go get it or you could you could just go to a fucking store and go get it, you dingleberry. But what do I know? I'm just a man in front of a microphone.
00:16:45
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But yeah, cattle, you know, that's the way I think of it. It's like some synonyms, a small or petty objection. Quibble is one that somebody said you could replace with the word quibble, which I think is a great, it's so great because quibble is usually about something so minute and silly. And you're just like, oh, just quibbling over nothing over there, just cabbling over nothing over there, you know, or just getting into a little quibble about nothing.
00:17:13
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Um, I think somebody else brought up carp before, um, carp and Cavill both mean to find fault and be unnecessarily critical. However, Cavill emphasizes objecting for no reason, whereas carp emphasizes complaining and being critical. Oh, interesting. So I guess we could really re refine Cavill to being more of a, of a, of a, um,
00:17:41
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of a minute objection for sake of objecting, whereas to carp on something would be just a complaint. I guess it just depends on the context. You know, guys, life
00:17:54
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depends on context. We have so many words in our delicious language that we have adopted and squished together and made new. And we have so many other things that we can look at in life to complain about or to fight for. And you know, instead of just taking everything at face value, sometimes you got to dig just a little deeper.
00:18:13
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or at least walk around it to look at it from the other side. Because it might look like a sexy person over there and then you get closer and it's just a bunch of trees squished together that look like a sexy person. And you could still marry that tree according to some state law. But do you really want to? Somebody might cabbal about it at your wedding.
00:18:35
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Anyway, moving on. Alright, this next one is opacarafile, which is I believe the word supplied from Danny's mother. So thank you so much for that. Opacarafile means a lover of sunsets. It is typically
00:18:56
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The way that I remember it is I think I said on the episode is it very much flows with Opa Gangnam Style. So if you want to remember a fun word and say it again, you don't even have to say it with that kind of emphasis like on purpose, like to be funny. That's literally, I think how you say it, Opa Cara File, Opa Gangnam Style. Now, if you want to put a little bit more omph on it just to be funny, Opa Cara File. Either way, that is O-P-A-C-A-R-O File, P-H-I-L-E, Opa Care, O File.
00:19:27
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Open care is Latin for sunset or dusk and file is Greek for love. So there you go. Learn something new every day. Open care, file a lover of sunsets. And who doesn't like a good sunset? That's crazy. Who looks at a pretty sunset and says, that's fucking gross. Who looks at that and says like, God, that is disgusting. Now you can be sad that the sun has gone down, but I mean, like if you're looking at a sunset, who looks at that and says, ah, nasty.
00:19:57
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You know what I'm saying? Nobody does that. If you do, grow up. Come on now. You're just caddling about nothing. Alright, anyway, next up we have Malifluis, which is a tricky one for the tongue to say. Malifluis, of a voice or words, a sweet or musical sound pleasant to hear.
00:20:16
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The voice was mellifluous and smooth. Now, I believe we're saying words like dulcet. Let's see what other words we have here. Sweet sounding, soft, mellow, sweet toned among many. Again, oh, there's another word in here, mellissonant. Oh, mellissonant and mellifluous have got to be cousins. Hmm.
00:20:41
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Yeah, it's just something pleasing to the ear. And I don't know if we said this in a previous episode or not, but I feel like this is another word that could fit in with like somnolint and souseris, right? Like a souseris is like a rustling soft kind of hush of a sound. To be somnolint is something that, or to be somnolint is to be sleepy or something that can make you sleepy. And then something that is mellifluous is like very sweet sounding. So you could say like a mellifluous
00:21:11
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A person with a Malefluis voice made a Susseris in the dark during a sunset as he was an Opacaraphile and thus made his audience very somnolent. Whoa, whoa. Oh, and a big commodious field. Damn it, I got it. Promulant enough, I think. Anyway, Malefluis.
00:21:37
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sweet or smooth, pleasant to hear, musical in that relation anyway. And then finally, the word that I thought I knew because New Girl led me astray, buttonhole. B-U-T-T-O-N, hole.
00:21:57
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Guys, what do you think if I just made songs about words to learn, like maybe just one or two vocabulary words, and then that was just like my legacy was, hey, here's like a 30 second song about what this word means so you don't forget it. It's like Gwen Stefani with B-A-N-A-N-A-S, right? That wasn't what the song was about, but it helped, right? No one's gonna forget how to spell banana if they know that song now.
00:22:21
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Anyway, moving on. So buttonhole. So apparently it's a noun as well. It's a slit made into a garment to receive a button for fastening. It's a literal buttonhole.
00:22:37
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Although I would argue it's a button slit, but that doesn't sound nearly as formal, actually sounds a bit naughty. But the informal is to attract the attention of and detain someone in conversation, typically against his or her will, reporters, buttonhole officials coming out of the press secretary's office. So typically it's just, you know, your,
00:23:03
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Although in this case, it feels like it's on purpose. You know, like a reporter, they're like, oh, you know, they put their their cameras in their little recorders in their your face. Like, what do you think about the thing that just happened on the on the on the thing at the place, a very commodious place we're cabling about? You know, and they. They do their thing. Oh, somebody asked, why is it called the button hole?
00:23:29
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An alteration of another verb now long out of use, button, button hold. Oh, it used to be button hold, H-O-L-D, which literally meant to hold onto the buttons or lapels of someone's coat when speaking to him or her. In the mid 19th century, English speakers altered the verb to buttonhole, perhaps as a result of hearing button hold as button hold, which was buttonhole with a D at the end.
00:23:53
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or button or button hold thinking they heard button hole with a D at the end. Oh, I see. And that's how a lot of like words are made or or I don't know if you say evolve or not. But how they transform is just mishearing of something like a friend of mine's last name is Johnston, which is the word the name Johnson, but with a T wedged in the middle of it.
00:24:16
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And the family story is that like when his family came to Ellis Island and like they're in line and they're like, all right, your name is Johnson. And then like he said that whatever relative like great, great, great and father or whatever went up to the table and you know, they go to their next check in table and say, all right, what's the what's the name they gave you? I mean, well, we have to get your papers and everything, you know, because of the strong accent and everything. He's like, Johnston.
00:24:39
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Johnson, you know, that's what he heard or that's how his voice sounded and so they just wrote. All right Sounds like Johnson with a T in it. That's what he told you That's what I told you and he shoved the word T in there. No, is that true? I don't know but with just just with what Google just told me
00:24:54
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Who's to say, who's to say, guys, that, um, that's not how his last name was invented because so many things are made that way. Like goodbye. Goodbye. It's just a squishing of the words. God be with you. Did you know that somehow an extra Oh, got squished in there somewhere. Um, and then like a whole other word with just got ripped right out. Um, like God be good. Be ye.
00:25:21
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good be just a letter be ye you know so I mean language is interesting and it's fascinating and it's why you should learn more words guys that's why I'm glad we're doing this there's so many fun words out there just too it's just too many to ignore and yeah you could say why would I want to do that when what I'm doing is already getting your point across and yes you're absolutely right about that but I gotta tell you and I'm
Personal Story and Vocabulary Impact
00:25:46
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not trying to you know
00:25:48
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Jack myself up too much here. But I have been complimented on my vocabulary more, probably more than five times that I can remember anyway. And probably one of the most significant ones, here's a quick story before we wrap up. I don't mean to buttonhole you all, so, you know, I'll make it quick. Anyway, actually, to reiterate, buttonhole means to detain someone in conversation against their will.
00:26:16
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Now, can you do that by accident? Probably. I'm sure there's someone who talks your ear off that you're just like, oh, I don't want to be rude, but I want to walk away right now. And I can tell you how to end those conversations later. But anyway, to my story about increasing your vocabulary. I may have said this, actually, I don't think I've said it on TOQ, but I have another show that I haven't really done in a while. It's called Shares a lot. It's spelled exactly like it sounds if you want to go check it out. That's where I talk about like a bunch of
00:26:41
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social sciences and social aspects of things and my own emotional journeys through different parts of my life, some recent, some from many moons ago, sometimes just like general, like things about speech, like one of my most popular episodes is about cluttering and stuttering and why people do it and where it comes from and how people manage it. But anyway, one of the episodes, I think I talked about how I have a strange relationship with my sister, right?
00:27:08
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And that happened shortly after my brother passed away. Probably, gosh. Cool, man. Probably 15 years ago or something by now. It's been a long time. But anyway, when she and I actually met back up after like a five or six year absence from each other, when my younger brother was
00:27:33
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incarcerated and he was calling out to everybody whose phone number he could remember because he didn't have his phone to assist him in court. Neither one of us, knowing that the other one was called, showed up to the courthouse to try to help him figure out what was going on.
00:27:53
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which was a very awkward reunion because we didn't know we were going to see each other. And she had two children next to her, one of which I've only seen when he was just a little baby. And the other one was maybe like two years old at the time who I didn't know. She had like three more kids since I had seen her last.
00:28:08
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Um, and, uh, when I saw her, she had three, a brand new baby. And then when I saw her again, she had two more kids. Plus two other kids at her home. That's a whole other story. Um, but anyway, so she had two children when I'm like, what are these people? So, but it was kind of awkward and we just kind of did what we needed to do to get through the day. But I remember when I was talking to the lawyer,
00:28:34
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Well, she didn't tell me this at the time, but when we reconnected after having to meet up one more time at the courthouse, we spent like a work day there. It was such a long day. It's such a terrible system. Anyway, we had to go back there one more time.
00:28:50
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And then she'd actually called me after I got into my car and asked me if I wanted to meet up and just talk about some stuff and maybe sit down for lunch or something and go over everything because it was a very stressful time for us, very stressful time for my brother. And I think I made a comment about why did we ever stop talking or something.
00:29:12
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And so I remember when we sat down, it sounds like I'm jumping all over the place, but this will all make sense in a second. When we were sitting down, I said, well, what made you even want to talk to me? What changed? And she had said, well, first of all, I hadn't seen you in a really long time. And then when you kind of took the lead and went and talked to the lawyer and you were talking to the bailiffs and you were
00:29:40
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trying to navigate what we were doing. She said, I didn't know that you were so well spoken and I didn't know that you were able to talk the way that you could and convince people the way you could. She said, it just made me curious what else was going on in your life and what happened. She's like, I don't remember you
00:30:02
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talking like that before. And I probably didn't to be quite honest with you. I don't know. I was probably like 22, 21, maybe younger when we were estranged. Gosh, I honestly can't remember when that happened. I just feel like forever ago now. No, I had to be a little bit older, probably like maybe 23, 24. But at some point I just started learning words, not because I was like, oh, I need to improve my vocabulary, but because I just found an interest in learning words and I wanted to
00:30:30
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be more convincing and I want it to sound a certain way. I don't know. I just, sometimes like when you notice people start to comment on how you talk and it's in like a very positive way, you just, at least for me, I can say it was very motivating. I was like, Oh, well people like how I talk. They like how I present myself sometimes, you know, even though I'm being goofball. Um,
00:30:51
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And it just made me feel really good. And so anyway, that story is just all just to come back around to saying, you don't know who's listening sometimes. And people may not always say what they're thinking. But people notice when you speak well, like, no, you shouldn't just shove a word into a conversation because you want to start a conversation about it. Unless the conversation is, hey, does anybody know any new words?
00:31:17
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Or maybe, like, if somebody does hear a word and they go, oh, what's that mean? You can say, oh, actually, I do know what that means. It means this. They go, oh, wow, I didn't know that. But just the way you present yourself, I am very aware lately when I go back and edit episodes of this show how much I say the word like, and I'm trying to work on it. I don't think people will typically judge you for that because almost everybody does it now. But I am trying to slow down more, like filler words. I just said, I'm there.
00:31:45
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First of all don't dwell on that too much unless you're getting into public speaking and like that's the whole point is to do the Barack Obama pauses so you don't do that. Typically I don't think people will judge you for that and I'm trying to be easier on myself with it but I think the fact that
00:32:02
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You know, at least for me, I can talk for 32 minutes on a podcast right now without having to skip a beat aside from when I was choking earlier or, you know, I'm a little out having some allergy issues today, some little stuffy, but, um,
00:32:19
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I'm very proud of what I can do and I think a lot of it comes from the fact that I'm able to generate these thoughts. I have been well-read enough that I understand a lot of how things work and how words are structured and I can make educated guesses and I do think I can be convincing depending on who I'm talking to and what the context is because context is important.
00:32:39
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But at the end of it all, I think a lot of it starts from just a want to learn and an interest to learn and an interest to develop something. And words are so easy. There's so many places you can look to find words, even if you don't want to Google a new word of the day or listen to an awesome podcast like this one to learn new words.
00:32:56
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But I hope that if you made it this far into the episode that you did take away something, whether it's from a story or remembering, oh yeah, that was a fun word to learn, because it is fun to learn. Not everybody makes learning fun, but it is fun to learn if you take that initiative to make it fun. And by the way, if you think that you like to learn, you very well could like to teach.
00:33:23
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So I learned that not only is it fun to learn, but it's fun to help others learn. Not to say everybody's into it, but if you ever find that people are hanging on your every word and they love to hear your stories, you might just be somebody who's so compelling that they love to hear from you and they love to learn from you. So you never know, could change your life or somebody else's life. But either way, it doesn't matter. As long as the life is cromulent for you and those in your life, then who am I? Who am I to tell you what the fuck to do?
00:33:53
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But anyway, hey, everybody, thank you so much for listening to the show.
Conclusion and Farewell
00:33:56
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Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for, you know, just, you know, genuinely, generally. After I just get done having a speech about trying to be well spoken, I say generally. Anyway, you know what? Before we go, let's do one more one more quick rap of all of our words. All right. From the top, here we go. We've got Mount Weasel.
00:34:22
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Which means a decoy in a reference book. We've got cromulant, which means to be adequate. We've got nigh, which means something is about to happen or it is near. Let's see, let's see, let's see. Sussarists, a whispering or a rustling sound. Sumnolent, a sumnolent hum of insects in the grass, something that is sleepy, someone that is sleepy, maybe drowsy, insouciant, a casual lack of concern, indifferent, or maybe just carefree.
00:34:52
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Imponderabilia, just measuring something that typically doesn't have a way to measure it. The imponderabilia of human emotion. Jannic, straightforward, fair, commodious, roomy, spacious, substantial, risible, hilarious, laughable, ridiculous, absurd, caval to nitpick at something like a small and petty objection about something. Opacaraphile, a lover of sunsets, mellifluous,
00:35:20
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a sweet or musical, pleasant sound to hear. Usually, well, let me say that again, a pleasant sound to hear that happens to be sweet or musical in some way. And finally, buttonhole. Aside from just a hole where you put a button, it is to attract the attention of and or detain someone in conversation, typically against their will. So there you have it. I hope that you learned something or remembered something today. So many words to go through.
00:35:49
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And as always, you can send us letters at fun of sellers network dot com on the contact page. Click it. It's right at the top of the screen. You can contact me at random atom on the Instagrams where I do a bunch of dumb songs and apparently controversial posts about whether you should use your turn signals or not. I mean, like, come on, people are defending not using them. That's crazy. Or defending not putting your shopping carts back. Come on now.
00:36:13
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It's crazy. So let me know what you think about that. Reach out to me on there if you would like. And then finally, if you want to see more of Danny's stuff, he is on the website as well under the role players guild, the fort that they built in the backyard of the role players. Please go check him and Mel out. They're wonderful people. And Danny, if you listen to this, because hey, man, you didn't record it. So maybe you listen to it with me. I love you, buddy. I hope that you're feeling better.
00:36:41
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And, you know, I missed recording with you last week. And, you know, it's just not the same without you. But as tempted as I was just to take an off week. And I know I'm recording this on the day that I'm supposed to post it. So I'm just going to slap it right up on the Internet. Just want to say that I missed you. It wasn't the same without you. I hope you're feeling better. And I will see you and everyone else on the next episode. So take care of your mind. Take care of your heart. Take care of each other. And you know what? I'm going to play myself. Yeah, myself.
00:37:14
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I'm gonna play myself out with a very silly song about a vending machine. Take it away me. Let me tell you something friends. If you're having a bad day, I got just a story that'll make you feel a little bit better about yourself.
00:37:30
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It goes like this. I am a stuck in a vending machine. Yeah, this is such a bummer. I just wanted some candy. So I reach with my handy. I am a stuck in a vending machine. Yeah, this is such a bummer. I just wanted some candy and now be stuck here all summer.
00:37:53
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Come on, please don't laugh, though. I didn't have any money, and I really had a hankering for some Rolos, okay? My arm is stuck in a vending machine. Yeah, this is very strange. I just wanted something yummy inside my rumbling tummy. My arm is stuck in a vending machine. Yeah, this is very strange. I just wanted something yummy, and now I'm ready for change.
00:38:22
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You know, so by the way, in case it hasn't been clear, I could really use some help. Call 911, SOS, maybe put up some smoke signals. I'm a stuck in a vending machine. Come on. Yeah. This is such a bone. It's on candy. So I reach with my hand. I'm stuck in a vending machine. Yeah.
00:38:45
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This is very strange I just wanted something yummy And now I'm ready for change No one's coming for me