Bigg Werdz

[HITMAN]

It has come to my attention that some of you resent the larger than trailer park/tavern dialog some of us pretentious assholes have with each other because you don't understand the Bigg Werdz being used. So, I will now make this a weekly thread for those of you that don't swim in the deeper end of the English language but might want to improve your situation a bit.:D

This week's Bigg Werd is Facilitate. And yes, I used this in a regular old conversation this evening.

Facilitate: fa⋅cil⋅i⋅tate  [fuh-sil-i-teyt]
–verb (used with object), -tat⋅ed, -tat⋅ing. 1. to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.):
2. to assist the progress of (a person).

The goal of this little exercise is to facilitate everyone having a larger than "doofus" vocabulary.:thumbsup

[lordairgtar]

I once used the word "specious" in a political post on another forum. The responder actually was surprised I could use the word in a sentence correctly. I guess he figured I was one of the few right wingers who escaped the trailer park and actually received an education outside of loading rifles and identifying NASCAR drivers by the number on their car.

[animal]

Classic! :rolf

So do all f-bodies facilitate mullets or just camaros?

[u_say_go]

Hitman is so old, he needs to facilitate his erections with the help of a penis pump.

did I use the word of the week correctly?

[Irish]

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[Red97GTP]

The first thing I thought of when I read this thread was Dumb and Dumber. When Harry is helping Lloyd read, and he can't pronounce the word "the."

T..
T..he..
Ta..he..

The

:rolf

[BAD LS1]

Classic! :rolf

So do all f-bodies facilitate mullets or just camaros?

Like all ford engines facilitate the need for blowers?:goof

[Yeehaw]

im just going to go back to my trailer.....

[HITMAN]

Hitman is so old, he needs to facilitate his erections with the help of a penis pump.

did I use the word of the week correctly?

Not bad, but here are some examples of the various forms of the word, so that you can understand it's use in multiple ways:

likes_to_blow's sandy vagina facilitates his use of Massengil products.

just_say_no's constant whining about language facilitated the need for this topic.

Is this helping?

[animal]

Like all ford engines facilitate the need for blowers?:goof

Like bailouts facilitate GM's operations? :goof

I know, prolly below the belt eh?

[Irish]

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[fivonut]

It has come to my attention that some of you resent the larger than trailer park/tavern dialog some of us pretentious assholes have with each other because you don't understand the Bigg Werdz being used. So, I will now make this a weekly thread for those of you that don't swim in the deeper end of the English language but might want to improve your situation a bit.:D



ahhhhhhhhh ........ I'm not following. Could you maybe start with some of the bigg werds you use in this post??

[HITMAN]

Like bailouts facilitate GM's operations? :goof

I know, prolly below the belt eh?

:rolf

[HITMAN]

ahhhhhhhhh ........ I'm not following. Could you maybe start with some of the bigg werds you use in this post??

Well, Mr. Nut, how about you just list the werdz you can't wrap your ganglia around, and I'll use them as future topics. :tomato

[BAD LS1]

Like bailouts facilitate GM's operations? :goof

I know, prolly below the belt eh?

factual statement.

[Prince Valiant]

Embiggen-(Im-BIG-gen) verb. To enlarge. Or, in a metaphorical sense, to empower.

[fivonut]

Well, Mr. Nut, how about you just list the werdz you can't wrap your ganglia around, and I'll use them as future topics. :tomato


...about...list....wrap.....ganglia.......them.... ..future.......topics..........huh!!!!:goof:goof:g oof

[DirtyMax]

Embiggen-(Im-BIG-gen) verb. To enlarge. Or, in a metaphorical sense, to empower.

I use the plural of this word, embiggens, all the time.

For example.. last night at bowling, I said to my buddy... "That chick over there... the one with embiggens... she's kind of cute" :banana

[Holeshot]

I use the plural of this word, embiggens, all the time.

For example.. last night at bowling, I said to my buddy... "That chick over there... the one with embiggens... she's kind of cute" :banana

:rolf:rolf

[HITMAN]

I use the plural of this word, embiggens, all the time.

For example.. last night at bowling, I said to my buddy... "That chick over there... the one with embiggens... she's kind of cute" :banana

:rolf Classic Al Bundy. You are now king of the thread. :rolf

[Russ Jerome]

Facilitate= 3 seconds for me to type with the only two fingers I know how to type...and then I have to spell check it afterwords...leaving school at 15 did not help me :(

Easier: no spell check needed.

Assist: another quicker word.

Help: 1 second maybe to type?

Aid: Now we are realy cheating!

Facilitating the ingestion of a cold beverage (beer), one may choose to excelerate the act by the use of a injection molded poly tube (straw).

[lordairgtar]

Classic! :rolf

So do all f-bodies facilitate mullets or just camaros?
No , only Camaros do that. Firebirds and Trans Ams facilitate gold chains with a gold pepper hanging in chest hair exposed with an open shirt.

[TraceDaddy]

Not bad, but here are some examples of the various forms of the word, so that you can understand it's use in multiple ways:


Ummm. Shouldn't that be "its" not "it's"? In this case the apostrophe denotes a contraction not a possessive.

Or is my logic fallacious?

[fivonut]

Ummm. Shouldn't that be "its" not "it's"? In this case the apostrophe denotes a contraction not a possessive.

Or is my logic fallacious?

You are correct....OR, he forgot a "d" at the end of use.

[URLOZIN]

I called someone an ignoramus the other day, and they asked me if I graduated high school. lol. They had no idea what it meant.

[Reverend Cooper]

I need two words,sometimes they sound like one when it is said fast. Fuck You,unlike Facilitate,Fuck You may be used in 99.9% of all conversations.
Even when used uncorrectly you still get the point.

[URLOZIN]

I need two words,sometimes they sound like one when it is said fast. Fuck You,unlike Facilitate,Fuck You may be used in 99.9% of all conversations.
Even when used uncorrectly you still get the point.
:rolf:rolf:rolf

[Nix]

Feces,fecal matter. :stare :goof

Those are the big words I enjoy using! Atleast they are big words to me. :rolf

[michelle]

I think next week's word should be acclimate.

As in, Irish is getting acclimated to his new vagina.


I'll just wait for my phone to read the next text from you. :goof

[u_say_go]

I use the plural of this word, embiggens, all the time.

For example.. last night at bowling, I said to my buddy... "That chick over there... the one with embiggens... she's kind of cute" :banana
:rolf good one!

[1320PNY]

Your laborious endeavor to habituate the cognizant incapacitation of the populace is baroque.

[Reverend Cooper]

^ basically he is wasting his time.

[DirtyMax]

I think next week's word should be acclimate.

Why wait til next week?!?

"It would take about 30 beers before I would acclimate with that woman over there"

[73MACH]

i use the plural of this word, embiggens, all the time.

For example.. Last night at bowling, i said to my buddy... "that chick over there... The one with embiggens... She's kind of cute" :banana

lmao!!!

[HITMAN]

Ummm. Shouldn't that be "its" not "it's"? In this case the apostrophe denotes a contraction not a possessive.

Or is my logic fallacious?

:rolf No sir, unfortunately for me it's not. :durr

I hate it when I miss things like that, especially when I'm trying to be a wise-ass.

Fallacious, oh that's an excellent word. Next week's ;) topic, perhaps?

[HITMAN]

You are correct....OR, he forgot a "d" at the end of use.

No, in order for me to use "used" I would have to add the modifier "how" to the sentence. In this case I was just not paying enough attention to my punctuation.

[HITMAN]

I need two words,sometimes they sound like one when it is said fast. Fuck You,unlike Facilitate,Fuck You may be used in 99.9% of all conversations.
Even when used uncorrectly you still get the point.

Did you perhaps mean incorrectly?

Yeah, I know... "Fuck you, Hitman!" :rolf

[HITMAN]

Your laborious endeavor to habituate the cognizant incapacitation of the populace is baroque.

Check your thesaurus. I understand what you're driving at, but as you've written it, the sentence makes little sense.

I would have written it like this:

Your laborious endeavor to elevate the intellectually apathetic is, unfortunately, an exercise in futility. ;)

[HITMAN]

Why wait til next week?!?

"It would take about 30 beers before I would acclimate with that woman over there"

How about:
Steve Irwin- "Crikey, it'd take about 30 Foster's for me to even think about gettin' next to that Sheila! She looks like a top end water buffalo!"

Paul Hogan- "Z' acclimate"...

[Reverend Cooper]

Did you perhaps mean incorrectly?

Yeah, I know... "Fuck you, Hitman!" :rolf

Now I know you may say bullshit,but really I did that on purpose hoping someone would notice.
Producing a BIG "Fuck You" to them,thus proving my point.
Thank you for saving me the time. LOL

[lordairgtar]

Facilitating the ingestion of a cold beverage (beer), one may choose to excelerate the act by the use of a injection molded poly tube (straw).
I think straws are actually extruded.:D
The Manufacturing Process

Straw manufacturing requires several steps. First, the plastic resin and other components are mixed together; the mixture is then extruded in a tube shape; the straw may under go subsequent specialized operations; and finally the straws are packaged for shipment.
Plastic compounding

* 1 The polypropylene resin must first be mixed with the plasticizers, colorants, antioxidants, stabilizers, and fillers. These materials, in powder form, are dumped into the hopper of an extrusion compounder that mixes, melts, and forms beads of the blended plastic. This machine can be thought of as a long, heated, motor driven meat grinder. The powders are mixed together and melted as they travel down the barrel of the extruder. Special feeder screws are used to push the powder along its path. The molten plastic mixture is squeezed out through a series of small holes at the other end of the extruder. The holes shape the plastic into thin strands about 0.125 inch (0.3175 cm) in diameter. One compounding method ejects these strands into cooling water where a series of rotating knives cut them into short pellets. The pellet shape is preferred for subsequent molding operations because pellets are easier to move than a fine powder. These pellets are then collected and dried; they may be further blended or coated with other additives before packaging. The finished plastic pellets are stored until they are ready to be molded into straws.

Straw extrusion

* 2 The pellets are transferred to another extrusion molder. The second extruder is fitted with a different type of die, which produces a hollow tube shape. The pellets are dumped in a hopper on one end of the machine and are forced through a long channel by a screw mechanism. This screw is turned in the barrel with power supplied by a motor operating through a gear reducer. As the screw rotates, it moves the resin down the barrel. As the resin travels down the heated channel, it melts and becomes more flowable. To ensure good movement and heat transfer, the screw fits within the barrel with only few thousands of an inch clearance. It is machined from a solid steel rod, and the surfaces almost touching the barrel are hardened to resist wear. By the time the resin reaches the end of the barrel, it is completely melted and can be easily forced out through the opening in the die.
* 3 The resin exits the die in a long string in the shape of a straw. It is then moved along by a piece of equipment known as a puller which helps maintain the shape of the straw as it is moved through the rest of the manufacturing process. In some processes, it is necessary to pull the straw through special sizing plates to better control the diameter. These plates are essentially metal sheets with holes drilled in them. Eventually, this elongated tube is directed through a cooling stage—usually a water bath. Some operations run the plastic over a chilled metal rod, called a mandrel, which freezes the internal dimension of the straw to that of the rod. Ultimately, the long tubes are cut to the proper length by a knife assembly.

[Russ Jerome]

I think straws are actually extruded.:D
The Manufacturing Process

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Your reply was alluring and intriguing yet still kept my thoughts stimulated while I could not help be enthralled all at the same time....great short story for coke heads :)

[lordairgtar]

...in otherwords, I'm a windbag!

[nismodave]

You need another car, Hitman.

You must be bored.

[RanJer]

Your reply was alluring and intriguing yet still kept my thoughts stimulated while I could not help be enthralled all at the same time....great short story for coke heads :)

And no one noticed, or mentioned, the misspelling of "excelerate" as you used. The correct spelling is accelerate.

[HITMAN]

You need another car, Hitman.

You must be bored.

Ya think? :sleep

[SSLEVO]

Haha, some of you guys failed trying to use the word of the day in a sentence. I can't believe how some college educated people talk at work. It seems to me if you've made it that far you should have it down by now.

[lordairgtar]

College educated, or people who went to college on a sports scholarship? Big difference.

[SSLEVO]

College educated, or people who went to college on a sports scholarship? Big difference.

I guess i don't see why that matters, if you have a diploma you should be able to put a proper sentence together. Hell if you have a high school diploma you should be able to. Although i admit, i can't spell for shit.

[1320PNY]

Everything I know about the English Language was learned in the 8th grade. Mrs. Cottingham seemed mean at the time, but at least it got me through to today. Colleges ironically rarely stress the English Language for degrees not related to school or teaching.

By the way, baroque is a positive adjective representing a commendable action. Yes, college taught me how to use a thesaurus. I do believe this is a fun and worthwhile thread. Keep it going guys.

P.S. Alcohol and texting are the downfall of the written language!

[lordairgtar]

I guess i don't see why that matters, if you have a diploma you should be able to put a proper sentence together. Hell if you have a high school diploma you should be able to. Although i admit, i can't spell for shit.
I never finished High School, yet I have no trouble with sentence construction. I do have problems with the whole diagramming thing, though.:rolf

[Russ Jerome]

P.S. Alcohol and texting are the downfall of the written language!

As bad as I type and spell now, a good freind of mine says I have improved 90% since babbaling online, prior to adopting my online alter ego as someone I just drank and looked at porn :)

NOW wit tXting i M 4 short werdz, M-K?

[JBs92Lude]

I guess i don't see why that matters, if you have a diploma you should be able to put a proper sentence together. Hell if you have a high school diploma you should be able to. Although i admit, i can't spell for shit.

This is true, however for most college degrees you only have to take 2 semesters of English and then you are done. Marquette is 3, but that is beside the point. These English classes are an easy "A" and you really don't have to be good at writing to do well. Then for students like me, a science major, we take science classes where spelling, grammar, and proper sentence structure plays no part in studying or testing. For example, a doctor, no one can read their handwriting anyway, unless you work in a pharmacy.

I agree with not being able to spell. I was told by my AP Honors English teacher my senior year of high school, "spelling is a low level skill, we now have spell check to ensure we can spell. However, writing well, and being able to put together sentences, that is another story."

In sum, in college, unless you are an English major, editor, or study the English language on a regular basis, is not going to make you affluent at the English language.

[SSLEVO]

This is true, however for most college degrees you only have to take 2 semesters of English and then you are done. Marquette is 3, but that is beside the point. These English classes are an easy "A" and you really don't have to be good at writing to do well. Then for students like me, a science major, we take science classes where spelling, grammar, and proper sentence structure plays no part in studying or testing. For example, a doctor, no one can read their handwriting anyway, unless you work in a pharmacy.

I agree with not being able to spell. I was told by my AP Honors English teacher my senior year of high school, "spelling is a low level skill, we now have spell check to ensure we can spell. However, writing well, and being able to put together sentences, that is another story."

In sum, in college, unless you are an English major, editor, or study the English language on a regular basis, is not going to make you affluent at the English language.

True, i only had 2 semesters of English in college (engineering), they were anything but an easy A though. I busted my ass at got a c- in the first one and a B in the second one. She doesn't give A's though. I can't even count how many papers i've wrote over the 4.5 years i was there. Just all of that experience should get you there alone.

Edit: My first class he actually would mark up our papers with a red pen, we had 2 days to fix everything and re-submit it. If you didn't you only got half credit. Maybe all the hardass teachers over the years actually worked.

[Doc Brown]

This is true, however for most college degrees you only have to take 2 semesters of English and then you are done. Marquette is 3, but that is beside the point. These English classes are an easy "A" and you really don't have to be good at writing to do well. Then for students like me, a science major, we take science classes where spelling, grammar, and proper sentence structure plays no part in studying or testing. For example, a doctor, no one can read their handwriting anyway, unless you work in a pharmacy.

I agree with not being able to spell. I was told by my AP Honors English teacher my senior year of high school, "spelling is a low level skill, we now have spell check to ensure we can spell. However, writing well, and being able to put together sentences, that is another story."

In sum, in college, unless you are an English major, editor, or study the English language on a regular basis, is not going to make you affluent at the English language.Diplomas and degrees do not carry the same weight now as they did even 10 years ago.

I think that one could argue that an average high school graduate from as little as 10 years ago holds an equal or greater command of the English language than an average college grad from today.

This is especially true when you factor in the culture shift our society has undergone in that timeframe. Especially where M.P.S. is considered, high schools today are more like juvenile centers where educators have lowered the bar to a pathetic point yet still issue diplomas just to keep their graduation rates from reaching zero, whether the student has passed the curriculum successfully or not. Basically, if you survive, you graduate. Therefore the colleges have become more like the high schools of years past; the difference being that those students who actually want to learn now have to pay a college tuition to get a high school education. This is not to say that college students no longer get a college education, but rather they are now subject to having to absorb much more remedial teachings than college students did a decade prior due to the increased failings of the K-12 public schools.

Now, I am just speaking generally here. I'm sure that there are many exceptions, but in my experiences with currently enrolled college students, the trend is that they are complaining because they are bogged down with an incredible amount of work, more than students have had ever before. But when you're a student at a 4 year college and they are trying to squeeze the final two years of high school level work in before you can comprehend their 4 years of college level work on top of that in only the 4 years time, the student is the one that ends up paying the ultimate price; some skills will end up falling short. As JB points out, in college nowadays, professors don't put a lot of emphasis on the basic articulation of the English language during everyday use, so long as you focus on passing their class.

[/end rant]

[JBs92Lude]

Diplomas and degrees do not carry the same weight now as they did even 10 years ago.

I think that one could argue that an average high school graduate from as little as 10 years ago holds an equal or greater command of the English language than an average college grad from today.

This is especially true when you factor in the culture shift our society has undergone in that time frame. Especially where M.P.S. is considered, high schools today are more like juvenile centers where educators have lowered the bar to a pathetic point yet still issue diplomas just to keep their graduation rates from reaching zero, whether the student has passed the curriculum successfully or not. Basically, if you survive, you graduate. Therefore the colleges have become more like the high schools of years past; the difference being that those students who actually want to learn now have to pay a college tuition to get a high school education. This is not to say that college students no longer get a college education, but rather they are now subject to having to absorb much more remedial teachings than college students did a decade prior due to the increased failings of the K-12 public schools.

Now, I am just speaking generally here. I'm sure that there are many exceptions, but in my experiences with currently enrolled college students, the trend is that they are complaining because they are bogged down with an incredible amount of work, more than students have had ever before. But when you're a student at a 4 year college and they are trying to squeeze the final two years of high school level work in before you can comprehend their 4 years of college level work on top of that in only the 4 years time, the student is the one that ends up paying the ultimate price; some skills will end up falling short. As JB points out, in college nowadays, professors don't put a lot of emphasis on the basic articulation of the English language during everyday use, so long as you focus on passing their class.

[/end rant]

Well said. However, the UW schools now make incoming freshman take an aptitude test to ensure that they are "not being set up for failure" in their basic English, science, and math classes. However, at Marquette you simply sign up for classes and if you are not ready for it, well, too bad. Marquette accepts a certain percent of students from the MPS system, and many times these students cannot handle the difficulty and work load that these classes require to pass. As Doc states, many times MPS just gives out high school diplomas to keep their graduation rates up. Sadly, unless the student has one heck of a work ethic and has the discipline to put numerous hours catching up to be at the education level they should be, they aren't going to pass. If students are dedicated, and really want to be ready for college, taking AP and honors classes in high school is the best way to go, however, at least as far as I know, most schools don't have the funding for such classes. Therefore, many students are not ready for the work and dedication college requires.

[Yeehaw]

rich man goes to college...poor man goes to work

[KRAUSED]

Some know the English language others need to learn it.... or

Some people need to Facilitate the English language to better themselves...

[SSLEVO]

I suppose it depends on what school district you are in, i never took any AP classes and did just fine in college. I did need to retake pre-calc because i didn't do well enough on the stupid entry test for some reason. Easy A there i guess.

[SSLEVO]

Well said. However, the UW schools now make incoming freshman take an aptitude test to ensure that they are "not being set up for failure" in their basic English, science, and math classes.

Lol, isn't that what the ACT and SAT are for? I had to meet certain levels in each area to be accepted for my major.

[SSLEVO]

rich man goes to college...poor man goes to work

I don't know if there was any sarcasm there but pretty much any one can go to college these days. There is plenty of money out there, you just have to work to get it.

That's probably why it's hard to find a white collar job these days, a BS degree doesn't mean a whole lot anymore.

[JBs92Lude]

Lol, isn't that what the ACT and SAT are for? I had to meet certain levels in each area to be accepted for my major.

My sister took the ACT to get in to UW-Oskkosh and had to take an aptitude test before her classes began so they could "place" her in the correct classes.

However, the same is true with me, at Marquette you had to have really good grades and above a 27 on your ACT for the biomedical science major. Depends on the school I suppose.