Military jargon, terminology, buzzwords, dictionaries, documents, publishing • PhD from @GUGovt
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Practicableness. n.s. [from practicable.] Possibility to be performed.
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If the world is getting a little too much may I recommend the inexplicably obsolete word ‘latibulating’, from the 17th century? To latibulate is to find a cosy corner somewhere and hide in it.
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Sir, this is a national park, not a portal to the underworld.
Photo of a bobcat pretending to be a tree demon at Joshua Tree National Park.
ALT Silhouette of a bobcat with glowing eyes is perched on a bare tree branch against a cloudy sky at dusk.
Working on an article and I just realized that my desk currently has almost a hundred years of typing history sitting on it. Typewriter, MacBook, Bluetooth keyboard.
Elena Wicker retweeted
RAS Syndrome is Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome - where a word in an acronym is used in conjunction with it, like ‘PIN number’ and ‘ATM machine’.
I’m cataloguing my military dictionary collection, and this morning I am working on the description for my oldest first edition (1760). It has about fifty engravings in it and they’re gorgeous:
Elena Wicker retweeted
Abso-BLEEPING-lutely.
‘Expletive infixation’ is the linguistic term for profanity inserted into a word for emphasis.
(For this thread, we’ll use 'BLEEPING,' but feel free to substitute another word.)
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Throwback to my favorite article… Full Spectrum Integrated Lethality?: On Buzzwords warontherocks.com/full-spect…
‘We’ve drowned ourselves in buzzwords:’ Acting US Army secretary gives sermon-like first speech defensenews.com/pentagon/202…
Headed to AUSA tomorrow! SO EXCITED. If you see me, say hi!
(And forgive me for being an awkward nerd.)
My favorite historical method of issuing orders: in 1779, there were these things called message balls or message shells.
You hollowed out a howitzer shell, put your message inside, and then SHOT IT AT YOUR INTENDED RECIPIENT.
