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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:30 PM Mar 2022

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I learned a new word today.

Nontroversy. A a lot of nontroversies in the news today.

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I learned a new word today. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2022 OP

I like it! Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 #1

That's also a good word. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2022 #3

That is a great word! madaboutharry Mar 2022 #2

I'm so sorry I got sucked into one of them today. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2022 #5

And republicontroversy? nt Wicked Blue Mar 2022 #4

Urban Dictionary multigraincracker Mar 2022 #6

It is. ...nt 2naSalit Mar 2022 #9

I learned one the other day frazzled Mar 2022 #7

They invent nontroversys by asking stupid questions pwb Mar 2022 #8

Thank you! BluesRunTheGame Mar 2022 #10

Jilly_in_VA

(9,966 posts)

1. I like it!

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:31 PM

Mar 2022

It goes right before "nopology" in the dictionary of neologisms.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

3. That's also a good word.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:33 PM

Mar 2022

Neologisms were first associated with schizophrenia with its sufferers making up words.

madaboutharry

(40,209 posts)

2. That is a great word!

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:33 PM

Mar 2022

It describes so much of modern life.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

5. I'm so sorry I got sucked into one of them today.

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:35 PM

Mar 2022

As I get older I get better at avoiding them but it's kind of hard to avoid them all.

Wicked Blue

(5,831 posts)

4. And republicontroversy? nt

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:34 PM

Mar 2022

multigraincracker

(32,674 posts)

6. Urban Dictionary

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:52 PM

Mar 2022

Worthy.

2naSalit

(86,577 posts)

9. It is. ...nt

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 04:54 PM

Mar 2022

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

7. I learned one the other day

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 04:00 PM

Mar 2022

While reading the long NYT article about Putin’s equally long slog toward anti-West authoritarianism.

ir·re·den·tism
/ˌi(r)rəˈdenˌtizəm/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: irredentism
a policy of advocating the restoration to a country of any territory formerly belonging to it.
HISTORICAL
(in 19th-century Italian politics) a policy of advocating the return to Italy of all Italian-speaking districts subject to other countries.

I had never encountered that term before, and went straight to the dictionary to find its meaning. Now I have a new word to drop at cocktail parties (if I ever get the opportunity to attend a cocktail party ever again).

pwb

(11,261 posts)

8. They invent nontroversys by asking stupid questions

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 04:13 PM

Mar 2022

and just answering it themselves. 24 hours a day of questions and opinions. Cable is not our friend.

BluesRunTheGame

(1,614 posts)

10. Thank you!

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:13 PM

Mar 2022

My vocabulary increased by one today. That’s one that I’m sure I’ll use a lot.

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