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linguoboy wrote:makkelijk
Vlürch wrote:A task force of Unilangers was assembled to stop him from going through with it (I only remember Vijay and me were part of it, don't remember who else)
vijayjohn wrote:Vlürch wrote:A task force of Unilangers was assembled to stop him from going through with it (I only remember Vijay and me were part of it, don't remember who else)
Oh Jesus
Vlürch wrote:Oh, and just before going to bed, I checked the Wikipedia articles about the actors in it and one of the actresses' page is protected due to some people insisting that she's younger than she actually is. So yeah, that clearly influenced the dream as well.
Gormur wrote:I never have dreams about existential stuff, but I've had dreams where I hear words. Then later look them up and find them even though I'd never heard them before
Dormouse559 wrote:The other night, I had a dream that involved the evil queen from "Snow White". I referred to her as a "queenion", which I guess was supposed to mean "powerful queen". But even in the dream, I was skeptical of that, so I looked it up. Dream-Wiktionary said "queenion" is in fact a verb meaning "to stay awake until a monarch has fallen asleep or, if they have died, until their body is cold*". It also gave the Latin word for the concept as rēgīnō, and I imagined the Anglicized form, "reginate". Of course, none of those words actually exists. No idea where waiting for the monarch to fall asleep came from, but it sounds kind of neat.
* This second bit was phrased as something like "until the gut is chilled"
Vlürch wrote:There has to be a word for that in English that's actually established and commonly used, right? Like, I guess enmonarched or bekinged and bequeened would be the most obvious, but they're not really used either. There probably is a common word and I'm just not remembering it?
Linguaphile wrote:Or enthroned.
Linguaphile wrote:(In Ghanaian English they say enstooled.)
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