Travel Verbiage

It’s a travel day. Jen and I are off to see Daddy. Yep, it’s another wham, bam thank you ma’am kind of a trip. We’ll be home to Ten and Oni and our herd of cat by tomorrow night. I *think* I have a good airport/security line/plane book to get lost in.

Inebriated space travel is ill-advised…
…is what it said on the first page of the Sentient Coalition’s official intergalactic travel manual, which happened to be conveniently wedged under the seat of an incredibly intoxicated alien who just crash landed on Earth.

This is the first sentence in the book that I brought – Space Tripping by Patrick Edwards. It’s promising to be an hilarious, rollicking honey.

Now, on to verbiage such as:

Sesquipedalian
adjective [ses-kwi-pi-dey-lee-uhn, -deyl-yuhn]
given to using long words.

AKA being pretentious as fuck.

Bombinate
verb [bom-buh-neyt]
to make a humming or buzzing noise.

I gotta disagree. Making a humming sound? That sounds so utterly tame! Bombinate is way more like what you do after you’ve screwed your courage up to fight a battle that you know you probably can’t win. 

As in:
Imma stock up on some liquid courage and just bombinate my way through those bastards!

Vigesimal
adjective [vahy-jes-uh-muhl]
of, relating to, or based on twenty.

No, NO! It's "of or relating to vegetables" as in:
                      The meal was wonderfully vigesimal.
Oh wait, that’d be vegesimal. Nevermind!

Organon
noun [awr-guh-non]
an instrument of thought or knowledge.

Oh, GET real! This is a noun meaning:
a person who used to live in Oregon but no longer does.
                       Ya know, Ten lived most of his life in the state but he’s an organon now.
Oh wait, that’s missing an e. Could I be confused AGAIN or is this a typo by the dictionary?!

Wilder
verb [wil-der]
to cause to lose one's way.
The rare, archaic verb wilder “to lead astray” is pronounced with a short -i- as in children, not a long -i- as in child. The etymology of wilder is difficult: it looks like a frequentative verb formed from the adjective wild, or an irregular derivative from wilderness that was influenced by wander.

I got no complaints about this one at all. I just like the word. A lot.

Conlang
noun [kon-lang]
an artificially constructed language used by a group of speakers, as opposed to one that has naturally evolved: conlangs such as Esperanto and Klingon.

Oh that sounds WAY charming but this actually means (or should) the language of cons – as in the Used Urinal Cake Grifter in the WH. The man who couldn’t tell the truth even if his precious Vanky’s life depended on it, speaks in nothing but conlang.

Lese majesty
noun [leez maj-uh-stee, lez]

an attack on any custom, institution, belief, etc., held sacred or revered by numbers of people:

OR it’s a noun referring to royals hailing from Themyscira in the Paradise Islands.

Umami
noun [oo-mah-mee]
a strong meaty taste.
Dunno, I think the writers/researchers are getting confused with the brill singing group Ulali who have nothing to do with taste – meat or otherwise. Unless of course they meant to say that having good taste means you have at least one of Ulali’s awesome albums and see them whenever they come to town.

Yealing
noun [yee-lin] Scot.
a person of the same age as oneself.

This is, again, a dictionary typo or a spaced researcher. Sheesh.
The Yearling is a book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings about a girl and her pet deer. REALLY!

Anthropocene
noun
the Anthropocene a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment

He proposed that humans had so thoroughly altered the fundamental processes of the planet—through agriculture, climate change, and nuclear testing, and other phenomena—that a new geological epoch had commenced: the Anthropocene, the age of humans. Robinson Meyer, "Geology's Timekeepers Are Feuding," The Atlantic, July 20, 2018

OR it's the beginning of the death of humankind due to the slavering greed of a not-insignificant portion of us theoretically (PURELY theoretically) smartest of planet dwellers.

 Bardolatry
noun [bahr-dol-uh-tree]
great or excessive adoration of or reverence for William Shakespeare:

OR Brigitte Bardot – either one.

Rhubarb
noun [roo-bahrb]
a quarrel or squabble
The baseball slang meaning of rhubarb “a loud quarrel on the field, especially between a player and an umpire,” dates from about 1938.

Cool, but this does NOT tell us how a vegetable became a word meaning argument. Hmmph.

Frisson
noun, [free-sohn; French free-sawn]
a sudden, passing sensation of excitement; a shudder of emotion; thrill: The movie offers the viewer the occasional frisson of seeing a character in mortal danger.

I’ve been pronouncing this wrong (rhyming with vision) my entire long life. How embarrassing.

Well, onward and skyward!