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[-] JayGray91@piefed.social 22 points 1 year ago

Ooh I love this

Is there a community where there's daily interesting words, either from old timely English or just plain uncommon even in today's English?

That's how I learned English way back then, on top of having an awesome teacher encouraging it. She would ask the class to find a couple of words or give some weekly, have us write a couple sentences using it and she would correct us.

[-] PineRune@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Searching for "etymology" on Sync for Lemmy brought up two results with less than 100 subscribers each.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Logophilia was the name of the Reddit one, but the equivalent here only has one subscriber

[-] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago

Good shout. I'll do that, thanks!

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 year ago

That would be a fun community! Not sure how popular it would be though. There's TIL obviously

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On the German side of things, we have basically a "fabulous words" community, often just putting up words that are kind of neat, even if they're not particularly exotic: !famoseworte@feddit.org

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks the link don't work for me?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I selected the wrong instance when linking. Should work now.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks mate

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

If your job is somehow enriching someone else, spuddle every day

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

So the usage would be "I'm a bit spuddle today"? Or maybe "it's a spuddle kind of day today" or maybe "I'm just going to have to spuddle my way through this"

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Well, it says it's a verb, so it'd have to be the last one...

[-] classic@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

I was thinking "spuddling along"

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 6 points 1 year ago

I like all those uses

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

That is a great word

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I've been spuddling around all morning because I didn't have any caffeine.

[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I can't find any citation for this.

[-] will_a113@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I know which word I’ll be using today..

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Describes me pretty well.

[-] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Japanese work culture when you can't leave until your boss does.

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