tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post770991803636394087..comments2024-03-21T09:39:36.523+11:00Comments on Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος: γαμο- as prefix, Inflection within compounds, and slang.gr linkloveopoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-84485535611537725192013-02-12T21:41:47.776+11:002013-02-12T21:41:47.776+11:00Hello there! Are you mostly an active online user ...Hello there! Are you mostly an active online user or maybe you are for offline communication?Blog JustMeJustHerehttp://justmejusthere.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-86979442621150624652010-04-23T06:32:59.285+10:002010-04-23T06:32:59.285+10:00You say:
That's sort of news to me, but slang...You say:<br /><br />That's sort of news to me, but slang.gr does not lie. My ossified Greek is familiar with σκατο- "shitty" in that usage instead (like German Scheiß-). I'm guessing this use of is γαμο- is recent, and is transparently a borrowing from English—just like the expletive I actually have heard recently, γαμημένος "fucked".<br /><br />σκατο- and -κωλο, yes. -γαμο, not so much. So you're guessing right, I guess: it's recent and it's borrowed from English --and it's a bit unnatural, for me at least, although I live in Greece. Or is my Greek ossified too?Costas N. Kouremenoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11558773262829003157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-65458156150189329212010-03-16T02:07:59.119+11:002010-03-16T02:07:59.119+11:00John: I actually was caught up in the details of t...John: I actually was caught up in the details of the slang.gr interface, which are rather richer than Urban Dictionary's. But you're quite right: equipped with a rich interface, the idiot-poster pool will still schemozzle things.<br /><br />I had no idea about the (relative) artificiality of <i>scofflaw</i>. Colour me surprised.opoudjishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-2818402377956026732010-03-13T02:18:40.303+11:002010-03-13T02:18:40.303+11:00Something like UD is going to rise in crappiness f...Something like UD is going to rise in crappiness faster than linearly with the increase in the available idiot-poster pool, and the idiot-poster pool for UD, like that for YouTube, is half the planet. There just aren't that many Greek-speaking idiots in absolute terms, just as a consequence of there being not that many hellenophones in absolute terms.<br /><br />That may be what you just said.<br /><br /><i>Scofflaw</i> is interesting, though. It's a relatively recent example of a tosspot compound (1924), in fact a conscious coinage. Quoth Online Etymology: "The winning entry in a national contest during Prohibition to coin a word to characterize a person who drinks illegally, chosen from more than 25,000 entries; the $200 winning prize was split between two contestants who sent in the word separately, Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler". It's now typically applied to people who ignore traffic summonses. When I first met the word as a child, I couldn't segment it, an honor shared with "straphanger" and maybe a few others. I suppose my Language Acquisition Device had not been tuned to detect tosspot compounds.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com