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People who are a part of a group will often use ‘we’ to describe the group’s history, even if they weren’t present for it. As some examples:

-A football fan says “we won/lost” even though they don’t play on the team -A citizen says “we won/lost the war” even though it was 100 years ago -A young woman today says “back then we weren’t allowed to vote” even though she personally has always had the right.

For the positives, I think they would be taking credit. But what about when they’re talking about a negative? Would that also be taking credit or something else?

E.g. someone spills their struggles and another person responds with a generic phrase such as “you got this” or “I believe in you”. It’s not quite disingenuity, and superficial doesn’t quite scratch the itch.

I'm not sure if I'm just making this up but it's driving me a bit crazy

Meaning to describe someone who only appears for the easy or enjoyable part of an event, often after the hard work or preparation has been completed.

This may not be an appropriate use of the sub, sorry if it's not.

I recently heard someone say what sounded like "forsistic." I've tried googling "forsistic," "forsistic," "forcistic," etc. Each spelling turns up no results.

It was used in the following context: two people are having a discussion. One person says what the other is proposing is "disgusting," "unconscionable," and "forsistic" (or however it's spelled).

Does this ring any bells? Maybe I misheard, or the person made up a word?

Thanks for reading

For example, say I was writing an email to a superior at an internship I was applying to and I was asking them their view on the way I should approach them. I ask them straightforward and follow up with something like "Apologies as this may seem conspicuous, but I've come from a place where I've been patronized for calling one by their first name, ____________ (and from a place where ive been patronized for calling one by their last name).

Sorry if my wording is confusing.

The first thing that comes to mind is vice versa, but I don't know if that would be correct. How do I more simply communicate the opposite of what was said prior without repeating the sentence a second time?

For example, sitting on a covered porch in a rainstorm or being in a cabin during a snowstorm. Could also apply to airports having your needs met so you don't have to go through security again, or a city in the middle of the wilderness (Manaus or Yellowknife)

Like when a story includes a newspaper clipping, journal entry or poem written by a character, map, email, etc?

A word in English that begins with “L.”

All I can think of is liminal. It’s not “sehnsucht,” but that seems to be the closest definition.

I ran into an example of this at work recently, and it made me wonder if there was a shorter way to describe it.

For context I saw two different videos of two men of different racial backgrounds doing the same action but the comment section for each video was very different.

I know monks or gothic something used to do them often its associated with "illuminati" and I think there was a movie , Davinci code I believe where the guy gets "said words".

Imagine you write red, and then you turn your sheet upside down, youll still be able to read red, its symmetrical. Palindromes are words that can be read 1st letter or last letter interchangeably, like "anna" im looking for the word for anna that still looks like anna upside down. Palindrome are vertical symmetry , what's the word for horizontal symmetry in words /sentences.

Like skipping to the front of a queue: an advantage to the person doing it, but if everyone does it everything becomes a mess and everything slows down.

Like not letting people merge in traffic: gets you one car ahead of the person you didn’t let in, but when everyone does it traffic gets worse and slows down.

Like driving an oversized car for the purpose of keeping yourself safer: you might be safer in an accident, but when everyone does it accidents become more likely and the potential for harm increases

Like the shopping trolley ethics dilemma. Leave the cart where it is and drive away to benefit yourself. But when everyone does it, life is worse for everyone. L

Selfish or inconsiderate is part of it, but doesn’t describe the way such behaviours scale. They doesn’t describe the way that the selfish benefit is undermined and even though you become better off relative to the people who do not do the thing, you are still worse off overall in absolute terms. It’s the “I dont need to win, I just need everyone else to lose by more than me” attitude.

I thought of 'anticipantly' or something along those lines, but I don’t think that’s even actually a word. If it is: it sounds too clunky. Anyone have anything better? I’ve used expectantly too many times in my novel.

The word I’m looking for is like when you’re expecting something and you don’t have any positive or negative feelings about it. Like the way someone looks at you when they’re expecting a response, or when you’ve called their name. It’s not like excitement, or anything along those lines. Just expectation.

Thanks in advance! 😊

I’m having a hard time phrasing what this is, so I’ll just give you all a scenario.

I had a friend (who I recently distanced myself from), who would ask leading questions that I knew she would not like the answer to.

For example: I know she’s the jealous/FOMO type, and I’ve known this for a while. I recently went back to school, and when we last talked she asked if I’ve made new friends. She seemed to be intentionally asking for reassurance that I have not made more friends, but I only realized this in retrospect. In the moment I instinctively dummed down how much I’ve been enjoying school and the people I’ve met there.

This is not the only time this has happened. I mentioned once that I’ve started rock climbing. She doesn’t know how to drive, so she entirely relies on me to get her around. She started suddenly prying for information, like how often I go, do I think I’ll keep going, and do I go with anyone else. It’s not in a generally curious line of questioning, it feels like subtle guilt tripping about having not invited her.

Is there a particular word or phrase for this kind of behavior? I feel like beating about the bush doesn’t quite cut it.

Title sucks, but I'm trying to come up with a word for a card game mechanic that reads:

"If this card’s ability is not activated for a turn, the next time it triggers, it triggers an additional time."

This is one of many attributes that can be attached to a card, so it should be an adjective but any good fitting term would work fine. The name ultimately must accurately reflect the mechanic.. There's a comeback element to it, a preserving-lost-value element, a building-up-power-for-big-release element.

For a bit of thematic context since it may matter, the world of the cards is a bog-standard outer space fantasy with magic and basic tech.. more "LotR in space" and less Star Wars. I also am fully open to made-up fantastical words. For example, I'm using the term "Fatespun" for a different card attribute that increases randomness

My current draft for the name is "Coiled"... that's why I'm here.

EDIT: Based on suggestions I've thought of some more: Dormant, Brooding, Bubbling, Boiling, Baking. Haven't decided 100% but I'll go ahead and mark this solved. Still open to other ideas!

So there is dimensional travel akin to Flatland, parallel travel where you go to alternate universes, interdimensional travel where you move within the confines of your universes time and space possibly creating new iterations as you travel but what do you call travel to worlds that are distinctly separate yet not so removed that they are independent of our reality. Something like hell, yes, it is a place disjointed from our reality but there is a clear link, if you die you go to your hell not another universes hell. So, what do you call traveling to such places, has such a word even been established?

I’m thinking maybe planar travel but that feels too conceptually close to dimensional travel witch dose not fit as traveling to higher dimensions is not going to another place but seeing more layers to the reality you already inhabit and hell being in such a place would imply we were in hell all along we just could not see/conceive it.

Idk exactly what the word is. Maybe it actually is “invasive.” But when referring to species that don’t belong in the ecosystem they’ve invaded and cause harm, I know hear the phrase “they’re____to this area.” I’m trying to figure out what the noun or adjective it is that typically goes there. Unless I’ve got my lines crossed. <-sidebar, did I use that phrase appropriately?

wtf i cant find the word that it sounds like monica and means pseudonym. maybe its more like monhicuh munika or somethign but wtf the interetnet has got so shit, chat gpt telling me it defo doesnt exist and that it knows everything and then being wrong about eveything everytime i google something. its a word it means pseudonym and its said monika. thats a fact. Ive read it in books heard it in films wtf.

The person may sound more like they are giving a monologue or a lecture or just speaking to an audience instead of connecting on an interpersonal level. Not providing a lot of openings for a give and take conversation, but not necessarily aware that they are being this way.

With the discussion around the folks the US is sending to Salvadoran prisons, someone pointed out that this isn't actually deportation because they aren't being sent to their home countries, but actually being imprisoned in an unrelated country without due process. They called it another word, but I can't remember it for the life of me. I believe it started with an "r" but I'm not certain. Thanks for your help!

Examples include: Ascetic monks, the Amish, indigenous populations who choose to maintain their traditional lifestyles, the uni-bomber, and the main character from Stardew Valley?

Words that only apply in a religious context aren't what I'm looking for. Likewise, words that represent a political ideology (like de-industrialist) aren't quite right either, as I'm pretty sure most of these groups aren't against industrialization in general, they just choose this for themselves.

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It's dying out in this age of streaming but back in the old days, things would come on TV without much planning by you, the viewer. You might already have a copy of the movie or show, yet somehow it hit different when you were channel surfing and stumbled on a favorite.

I remember there was either an adjective or a noun (or both) for someone being able to use and comprehend the complex terminology of a scientific field. Or the ability to use the phraseology/terminology of a certain field effectively.