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What words have you heard of, but don't really understand?
madlh100
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democracy.
democracy.
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Pwned.
Meh.
realised what it meant afterwards and felt a bit sick... it just sounds like a manky word.
I don't understand them either. Text speak is another one that baffles me completely.
Can't get my head around them no matter how much I try to learn it.
Also:
Pope
Monarchy
There are so many, but I just can't think.
I sort of know what they mean (porn, owned and couldn't-care-less) but why they mean that is the mystery.
Seriously?
Never heard of Pron, is that another of the online youth of today's words?
I have a few words that are bandied about at work that I want to ask about, can't remember them at the moment though (that's what the weekend does, a whole two days away from work these days, and shoosh, it's gone
Just heard someone say, 'Amish people'.
You been watching The Inbetweeners then?
I only ask because that's the only place I've heard that word.
I think I kind of understand it.
Is it like a gathering of people to discuss an issue?
Are you a bloke?
Many blokes don't understand that one
Demos = people
Kratos = power
Democracy means any group of people as a whole directly or indirectly deciding how to govern themselves as a group usually by vote or consensus.
Compare this with autocracy where one person governs a group of people or an oligarchy where a few people govern a group of people.
It's an Irish airline:D
pwned originates from a common misspelling of owned on WoW, I think the same applies for Pronz but I dunno if it's from WoW. Meh is almost onomatopoeic, and is like the grunt "eh" that people do when they're not bothered, but eh on the internet is misconstrued as ay.
seems like you're looking for a logical reasoning behind words, but some words just are. Pope, is the name given to the head of the catholic church and monarchy is a system far a country that has a king or queen. The origins of these words may stem from latin, I haven't done the research but go back far enough and words don't have proper origins they just are, I think trying to rationalise why a word means what it does is futile.
I always thought affect is how it is affecting you now. The effects are from the past.
I could be wrong and if I am, I would like to know the difference too.
I think that's analingus, let's put it this way cunni refers to the vagina and lingus refers to licking it, so if lingus is licking, what is anal lingus?;)
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, sounds pretty obvious what it means, and ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww again.
As far as I'm aware, affect is the influence on a situation and effect is the outcome. If you affect something, it will have an effect eg I turned up the heat (I affected the temperature) and the room got hotter (my influence effected the temperature).
It's real confusing and the only way I can kinda distinguish between the two is to think in my head that a comes before e, therefore an influence (affect) causes/changes an outcome(effect).
Can someone confirm this?
It would be easy if that is how it works as it would be easy to take in. I've not come across anything saying that before though.