Effing English

Words and phrases I learned along the way

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I first heard this word in a Stephen Fry interview. Never heard it once since!

Sorry the brush looks weird here, I couldn’t get my settings right because I was using a different laptop.

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It’s still the 8th where I am!!!

Apparently it’s a good year for print media. They’ve earned it, honestly.

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IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIVE!

Due to absolutely no demand in particular, I'm going to start posting again on Monday. Yaaaaaay! I hope you guys bear with me (get it? Bear?) and we'll pick up our adventures in vocabulary right where we left off. Cheers! P.S. Thanks to everyone who continues to follow this blog and everyone who started following even after I mysteriously disappeared.

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Another example would be: “I have lamented how uncool it is that I posted this late.”

And for that I would completely understand if you think I’m...

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...completely and utterly despicable.

This is a bonus word for the day because I couldn’t post a word last Friday. I did not anticipate how busy I would get at the end of that week. Sorry folks! Here’s a bunch of words that start with the letter D.

Thank you gunantari for the observation of more appropriate D words!

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Basically the entire plot to Inception. Hey! That’s another word beginning with the letter “I”

My friend took a look at the blog and pointed out that the little girl is the straight man. I’d like to take this opportunity to clarify that no one is the straight man. I repeat, nobody is straight here.

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One instills something *in* someone, not on.

The previous example sentence used on. Thank you for the correction, anonymous reader whom I will refer to as my sister!

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I learned this word watching a youtube video of Idina Menzel talking about her wedding singer days in a concert.

Idina: *holding a percussion instrument* this is called a kielbasa. Band Member: That's a cabasa Idina: It's not a kielbasa? Oh, kielbasa's a sausage isn't it? Well I can play that too... HELLO!

#Fanzel4Eva

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And there is absolutely nothing wrong with dressing like a horribly outdated lesbian stereotype because flannel, as we all know, is very comfortable.

This politically incorrect joke was brought to you by my desire to draw a bear double entendre.

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Basically the entire plot to Inception. Hey! That’s another word beginning with the letter “I”

My friend took a look at the blog and pointed out that the little girl is the straight man. I’d like to take this opportunity to clarify that no one is the straight man. I repeat, nobody is straight here.

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One instills something *in* someone, not on.

The previous example sentence used on. Thank you for the correction, anonymous reader whom I will refer to as my sister!

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Now this is our word of the day. It’s still pretty nerdy though.

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Hyperbolic Discounting is a term one might find when studying behavioral economics, which means you probably won’t have to use this term too often in life. It’s such a field specific term that it’s not even the word of the day today. Yes, this is my idea of a joke HAHAHAHAHAHA...

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Happy weekend from the Effing English duo!

What do you have planned this weekend? I-it’s not like you have to tell me, ba-baka!

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Whereas schooling is a non-formal term people like to use to refer to one’s education.

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Not to be mistaken with Jodie Foster.

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Because maybe we only really learn to value things as they slowly go away.

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Not to be mistaken with discreet.

Whose brilliant idea was it to leave me in charge with defining scientific terms!?

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Not to be mistaken with discrete. I mean, duh... amirite?