What new word did you learn today?

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  1. Louanne Learning

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    Yes, exactly. Then "word clouds" can be produced from the results.

    https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/ngram.html

    Word cloud of n-grams with n=2 (bigrams):

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    we did something like it for a poetry contest years ago. It might have been #286. Was another kind of contest. Got only two submissions lol
     
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    How about "yourcologist" who . . . . Oh never mind I thought I could make some sort of lame joke here, but I can't even to that.
     
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    there's probably loads of other words, like the ridiculous things that end in '..phobic' could be many more that raise a chuckle. btw, why can't u make a joke if you're not insulting someone else at least?
     
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    ... Or spell 'do' apparently. :p
     
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    Mycology is huge. So many amateur mushroom foragers around here who get really deep into it. When I lived up in NH there were something like 100 unique mushroom species that would grow on either of the mountain ranges. Some of them were delicious. Others just weird. Illegal as fuck to sell them without a license, but they don't really enforce laws up there.
     
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    That sounds pretty arrogant.
     
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    rhymes with psychology :p

    Yes and some of them are poisonous and some of them, like redgills, stink like a skunk.
     
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    There’s also the genus amanita that contains some of the most toxic and boletes that look like this
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    stockholm syndrome
    noun
    A feeling of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping by a victim towards their captor.
     
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    berdache : a Native American male who dressed and lived entirely as a woman, fulfilling a cultural role within the tribe.
     
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    This word was used by Europeans in a judgmental way. "Two-spirit" is the preferred term.
     
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    Wikipedia says Two-Spirit is a neologism coined in 1990 but lists various peoples' terms in native languages for a number of non-traditional and non-binary roles. Pretty interesting list.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit#Traditional_Indigenous_terms
     
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    Two-Spirit may be a modern term, (as we can see, different nations have different terms) but there is a long history of gender and sexual diversity in traditional Native culture. Many indigenous peoples recognized a "third gender" and these people were often given special and sacred roles in the community since it was believed they had greater vision.
     
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    As someone who scored a B on my LGBT's, I've been fascinated by the Two-Spirit idea for some time. It's great that so many different cultures in the Americas not only accepted people like me, they sometimes even gave religious significance to their nature. It's interesting, at least.
     
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    I expected to be scolded by somebody. The name of this thread is What New Word Did You Learn Today, and I did, indeed, learn that word, despite its alleged lack of political correctness. I'd guess there are other instances of non-woke definitions in my (very interesting) source:

    https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-slang/
     
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    I wasn't scolding, but merely adding to the understanding of the word.
     
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    Pinglers
    noun
    Someone who fiddles with their food and eats little of it.
     
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    Haha. Never heard that one before. Is it a neologism?
     
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    Callipygian - having a well-shaped buttocks

    The Venus Callipyge, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks"

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    I've only ever read the adjective form as "callipygous." Websters says it's the less common form, but I've come across it in two books, seen it on this thread once and used it myself in a novel.
     
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    Yeah yeah! That's what I'm talking about!
     
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    Ass-tounding !
     
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    Why did all the ancients make the asses so round but all the weiners so small? The Kama Sutra illustrators aside of course.
     
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