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I'm torn between thinking the oddest (or maybe weirdest) use of the word is Herbert's Dune - the weirding way - which I assume is a coinage But, that in my mind competes with Bill Waterson's line from Calvin and Hobbes - "Verbing weirds the language."
"Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding"
Just glorious.
I'm torn between thinking the oddest (or maybe weirdest) use of the word is Herbert's Dune - the weirding way - which I assume is a coinage But, that in my mind competes with Bill Waterson's line from Calvin and Hobbes - "Verbing weirds the language."
Frank Herbert was just riffing on the original witchy definition. From the Dune glossary:
WEIRDING: idiomatic: that which partakes of the mystical or of witchcraft.
>In number theory, a weird number is a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect. In other words, the sum of the proper divisors of the number is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself.
Way off topic, but my journey to learning the New Zealand accent started when I realised that the word "bread" must be pronounced to rhyme with the word "weird".
My favorite weird use of weird is 'Weird' numbers. >In number theory, a weird number is a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect. In other words, the sum of the proper divisors of the number is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself.
It seems somewhat ironic that the people that have spent the last few years telling us what words we must use to avoid causing offence seem to be the same ones delighting in weird which has traditionally been used to marginalise eccentrics, the neuro-divergent and other vulnerable people.
Funny enough, as a neurodivergant person, I feel like we've taken the slur weird and turned it into something we revel in. Much like homosexuals did with 'gay' decades ago. I'll happily refer to myself as weird just before I info-dump about my latest obsession. It's current use in the political arena has been effective for one main reason IMO: those being hit with the label consider it a slur because they use it as a…
There’s also “Keep Portland Weird” and “Keep Weed Weird.”
The fact that the word is working in politics right now is just silly but the way it’s getting under the orange man’s skin is entertaining.
It seems somewhat ironic that the people that have spent the last few years telling us what words we must use to avoid causing offence seem to be the same ones delighting in weird which has traditionally been used to marginalise eccentrics, the neuro-divergent and other vulnerable people.
It seems somewhat ironic that the people that have spent the last few years telling us what words we must use to avoid causing offence seem to be the same ones delighting in weird which has traditionally been used to marginalise eccentrics, the neuro-divergent and other vulnerable people.
It seems somewhat ironic that the people that have spent the last few years telling us what words we must use to avoid causing offence seem to be the same ones delighting in weird which has traditionally been used to marginalise eccentrics, the neuro-divergent and other vulnerable people.
(Pagan words ahead, tread lightly): Spelling Weird Wyrd Word HollyWood. --- Spelling, casting a spell, to weird, as in "The Word" "And God Said, In a Sound Voice 'Let There Be Light' --- If you have read a lot of esoterics from Rosicruicians, Masons, MAyans - All Pagan/Wiccanism - (a history thats being erased) -- The incantation of voice, thought into reality 'Weirding' etc - its all abotu manifesting vibration from…
How can someone use a word against you that you don't understand the meaning or history of? if I make up a word, and starting using it in some discreet and secret way, what have I achieved? if my word is derived from an older word with a forgotten meaning, what still have I achieved? finding connections between things doesn't necessarily give those connections meaning except in your own interpretation.