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Old 05-19-2008, 09:08 AM   #196
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hm, "time-consuming"... ok, but it doesn't seem to have enough of the extreme "resistance is useless nom nom nom !" connotations for what i wanted... you're right, we should just use chronophage in english as well (last night, feeling lazy and disinclined to do any serious research, i cheated and used "chronophageous" in my mail, because it sounded more english to me. i admit it was wholly made up). because really, at this point, we might as well admit that the majority of our vocabulary is our own mozzled neologisms, anyway...
The beautiful thing about English is that we get to make up new words and they eventually become a part of the lexicon. Like "Pythonesque." Chronophageous is, in my mind, well on the way to becoming a new catch phrase. Especially when I start putting it in meeting minutes.

"Dr Dribbles then presented a chronophageous argument that we should not use new technology because we might get sued. Or not."
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Old 05-19-2008, 09:09 AM   #197
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chronophageous in meeting minutes ! brilliant.
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Old 05-19-2008, 09:19 AM   #198
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mobileread.com is chronophage! Anyone else find it hard to NOT call up the site 25 times a day? You guys make it so hard to stay away
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Old 05-19-2008, 09:21 AM   #199
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mobileread.com is chronophage! Anyone else find it hard to NOT call up the site 25 times a day? You guys make it so hard to stay away
I don't call it up 25 times a day...

I save a few minutes by leaving it open all the time...
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Old 05-19-2008, 09:23 AM   #200
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I don't call it up 25 times a day...

I save a few minutes by leaving it open all the time...
heh.. me too.
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Old 05-19-2008, 10:32 AM   #201
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Old 05-19-2008, 12:20 PM   #202
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i was just writing a mail to a friend and was confronted with 2 words i could not think of a good english equivalent for. possibly one exists (in which case, please do tell me), although the online french-english dictionary did not have one, but in my defense it's late and i'm tired.

chronophage : literally "time-eating". can be said about an activity, an obligation, etc. active participation on MR can be frighteningly chronophage.

insoumise : soumission means "submission", so someone who is "insoumise" is someone who does not submit. often used in a political or ideological sense. never mind, if you look up insoumis (without the feminine final e) it means refractory (although i would have said that was a translation of "réfractaire"...) or unsubdued.

any suggestions ? (for the other one)
They wrote a song about "chronophage" called "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights".
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Old 05-19-2008, 12:22 PM   #203
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"they" who ?

ah, this "they". but i'm disappointed, the word "chronophage" is never used. who will write a song using the actual word ? someone should...
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Old 05-19-2008, 02:08 PM   #204
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hm, "time-consuming"... ok, but it doesn't seem to have enough of the extreme "resistance is useless nom nom nom !" connotations for what i wanted... you're right, we should just use chronophage in english as well (last night, feeling lazy and disinclined to do any serious research, i cheated and used "chronophageous" in my mail, because it sounded more english to me. i admit it was wholly made up). because really, at this point, we might as well admit that the majority of our vocabulary is our own mozzled neologisms, anyway...
Chronophage would not be accepted by dico makers because in this case phagos can only be used in a figurative way. No creature asides from Cthulhu can eat time for its survival. If we could eat time we would never die. I'd love to be able to translate "time consuming", "prend du temps" is boring.
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Old 05-19-2008, 02:11 PM   #205
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If we could eat time we would never die.
No, no, you've got it wrong, Yvan. Time consuming crap eats our time and so we (seemingly) die sooner.
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Old 05-19-2008, 09:13 PM   #206
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...If we could eat time we would never die. I'd love to be able to translate "time consuming", "prend du temps" is boring.
Well, that Proust fella wrote a seven-volume novel searching for some lost time, so something's gotta've eaten it. Perhaps it was inside the madeleine?

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Old 05-19-2008, 09:15 PM   #207
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ah, i think we've acheived perfection there, with the chronophage novel about lost time...
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Old 05-21-2008, 01:22 PM   #208
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"Charp", as many here are no doubt already aware, is the one small mutant green potato chip in a bag of chips.

I suggest that we mozzle nouns for the following potato-related food items:

1. The longest french fry in the bunch
2. The short, crisp, sharp, stubby fries that look like jailhouse shanks
3. The fries that escape the cartons and mingle in greasy limbo, the no-man's land of the bag

Winning entries will be decided by the [U.S.] committee meeting in conclave. You know who you are.

P.S. I'm just wondering if 'shank' is an English-only word. Do other languages have a word specifically for stabbing weapons fashioned by inmates out of everyday materials?
1. Lanky
2. shankies
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Old 05-27-2008, 12:46 PM   #210
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guetter : Epier afin de surprendre. Attendre quelqu'un au passage. Attendre pour profiter de.

The dictionary claims you can translate this as "to watch" ; really not. it's more like to wait for with anticipation, to be on the lookout for... any suggestions ?
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