Agent noun Puns

Like to feminize imperator, you simply make it imperatrix.

But how would you feminize words like aggressor or professor, would it become aggressrix and professrix?

Another talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfgtKb-VpRk

You don't have to really watch it. Basically, he's saying many people currently do for example:

class Plant { // blah, blah... }

class Gardener {

public function water(Plant $plant) { 
    // water the plant
    }

}

His basic premise is too frequently people are creating service classes, then passing objects into its methods to perform some action on the object, instead of just putting the method into the object class and performing the action directly on the object, removing the service class altogether.

I know, unit tests and micro services. Anyway, thoughts? Is he right or wrong?

I'm going to carry a card in my wallet, I'm going to task people with reading the two words on it:

1. Diminish
2. Diminution

The reason for this is to prove one of two things: 1) that virtually everyone is going to pronounce "diminution" incorrectly, or that 2) the guy that made the word "diminution" made it plainly wrong.

I'm a neologist. The part of me that should care if words exist is long gone. And in my writings made gleeful for that absence, I've made a triune system of categorization of words. Outside of the "untouchable" category of prepositions and articles you shouldn't amend, I say, there are agents (verbs), and adjectives (which include the very interchangeable adverbs and nouns).

We produce our produce, we refuse our refuse. When a verb becomes a noun, it's subject to a uniquely English phenomenon we call the initial-stress-derived noun, if we're linguists with diplomas. I call it: to adject an adjective out of an agent.

And when a noun becomes a verb, it's subject to a reverse phenomenon for which the linguists have no name, which I call: to agént an agent out of an adjective.

Though it is not to create initial stress, it is not to create final stress either. It is simply to move the stress in the other direction. That's the way it's worked, for almost every noun/verb pairing there is. Rightwise on paper is lipwise forward, and so the stress progression creates a barking, peeling lipwise forwardry of the mouth, which is pointedly appropriate for the new syntactical placement of the word.

Admonish, admonition. The reason diminOOtion doesn't work, the reason you pronounced it wrong, is because it feels like you have agénted, when you should have adjected. The maker of the word fucked when he should have unfucked, and so we've all been stuck saying "dimunition" when we've clearly read otherwise.

Haven't we?

It's really quite pivotal that I find an answer to this question, so I've searched, and searched, and searched Google, and I could not find any word which is an antonym for the word 'penetrate' in a sexual context, or for the word 'penetrator' used in the context of which I spoke in the title of this post.

Help? Please!

Hi, just wondering if anyone has any documentation on adding noun suffixes to nouns that are formed with verb + wI'. Something like "gunner", which is formed with baH (v. fire) + wI'. Then if I wanted to say "my gunner", would it be baHwI'wI'? (using the possessive noun suffix)

E. g. musket -> musketeer, war -> warrior, chair -> chairperson etc.

Nary a day passes and I have already returned :P.

So, my question here is all about productive agent noun formation, which in my brief trawlings of Ancient Greek seem to be somewhat less straightforward than Classical Latin. Although specifically I am trying to form a good agent noun out of the word συνέδριον (I know that actual words for "councillor" or thereabouts exist, like συμβουλευτής, but in this context it is in my interest to coin something new), it's doubtless that I'll be attempting to take advantage of Ancient Greek's diverse system of productive derivational morphology in the future, so I should pick up the proper skills while here :)

Anyway, I just need a brief summary of Ancient Greek's main stick-anywhere (?) agent suffixes, with equivalent gender variations where they exist.

I was looking at some photos of a group of agents walking down the street looking down at their phones. I thought that they resembled a group of zombies slowly shuffling down the the street. That got me thinking about the collective noun for a group of zombies...apparently it's a "stench of zombies" ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_collective_nouns )

What is the collective noun for a group of Ingress agents glyphing their way down the street?

An agent noun is a noun that identifies a thing that does an action. So if 'speak' is the verb that denotes an action, then 'speaker' is the agent noun.

I was looking at the etymology of the word and it comes from Latin via Old French if that helps.

What, in theory would be a neuter form of an agent noun like vocator or imperator? If there was a temple nicknamed "the caller", you couldn't say Hoc templum vocator est. Any ideas?

An example from today reminded me of this curiosity, even as one of the popularizers of the noun it came from, "dox", and the Internet's repository of memes indicate that the double-x is at best non-standard.

Below is a list of some verbs that should clearly indicate this pattern (in alphabetical order, starting from the last letter):

I'm not mis-remembering here: This is how ESL students are taught for participles and for agent nouns.

The only similar deviation I've seen regularly is that the agent noun of "anti-vax" is sometimes written as "anti-vaxxer" instead of "anti-vaxer" ("vax" isn't yet used as a verb, but still...), although from specifically looking I have also seen "goxxed" and "haxxed" so it might be a recent development; could it be influenced by other online slang, like "suxxorz" or adding more than one x to the end of "sex"?

With regular verbs, the endings -or, -trix, can be slapped on to become an agent verb depending on gender. Is there a universal stem used and can deponent verbs turn to agent nouns? Thanks!

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Do you use the NICKA single word codes? Or do you opt for the two word operation names like "HAVE BLUE?"

What of the operations whose names are derived from two characters like "MK-Ultra?"

I couldn't find generators specifically following these naming conventions, mostly just two rad words smacked together. I wonder if there is interest in this level of detail.

Edit: holy smokes I forgot about block assignments. Those are cool too and are department specific.

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Mentos

(I will see myself out)

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

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Lenticular: shaped like a lentil, especially by being biconvex; relating to the lens of the eye [from this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/s9mq78/we_respect_your_privacy_me_lenticular_2022/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf]

Balky/ baulky: awkward; uncooperative [from How to Talk so Children will Listen and Listen so Children will Talk by Adele Fabre and Elaine Mazlish]

Foredoom: condemn beforehand to certain failure or destruction [ibid]

Bluing: a passivisation process in which steel is partially protected against rust using a black oxide coating [from Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot]

Ephemeroptera: an order of insects that comprises the mayflies [from Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett]

Riffle: turn over something, especially the pages of a book, quickly and casually [ibid]

Sough: to make a moaning, whistling or rushing sound, as of the sea or the wind in the trees [ibid]

Fruiterer: a retailer of fruit [ibid]

Mutatis mutandis: (used when comparing two cases or situations) making necessary alterations without changing the issue at point [ibid]

Prestidigitation: conjuring tricks performed as entertainment [ibid]

Thurible: censer [ibid]

Alembic: type of obsolete distilling device [ibid]

Toxophilite: a student or lover of archery [ibid]

Steel: (count noun) a rod of roughened steel on which knives are sharpened [ibid]

Comfrey: plant of the borage family, with large, hairy leaves and purplish or white bell-shaped flowers [ibid]

Trunnion: a pin or pivot forming one of a pair on which something is supported [ibid]

Knurl: a small projecting knob or ridge, especially in a series around the edge of something [ibid]

Dramaturge: a dramatist; a literary editor on the staff of a theatre who liaises with authors and edits texts [from Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre]

So it just struck me today that in every small to medium size town that I've lived in, the estate agents all tend to cluster in one street, just wondering is it the same everywhere else?

Not quite sure of the logic behind it, just a slight oddity in life I guess.

Also, can anyone think of a collective noun for estate agents? Someone else online suggested Gazump, any better suggestions?

Do your worst!

Some examples:

English

• -an, -ish and -ese for generic adjectives, nationality and language
• -ide, -yl and -ate for chemical compounds
• -ness for abstraction
• -er, which means many things but one of them is an agent

German

• -schaft for a club, cognate to -ship in fellowship
• Ge- for a collective or abstract noun, like Gedanke (thoughts) from denken (to think)

Let's get a sense of both what is common and some uncommon clever ones for lexicon development.

I expect that in conlanging it is hard to get the equivalent of technical terms for specific versions of things, so I am interested in whether anyone has any specifically jargonic cases.

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

But let me give it a shot.

I'm going to carry a card in my wallet, I'm going to task people with reading the two words on it:

1. Diminish
2. Diminution

The reason for this is to prove one of two things: 1) that virtually everyone is going to pronounce "diminution" incorrectly, or that 2) the guy that made the word "diminution" made it plainly wrong.

I'm a neologist. The part of me that should care if words exist is long gone. And in my writings made gleeful for that absence, I've made a triune system of categorization of words. Outside of the "untouchable" category of prepositions and articles you shouldn't amend, I say, there are agents (verbs), and adjectives (which include the very interchangeable adverbs and nouns).

We produce our produce, we refuse our refuse. When a verb becomes a noun, it's subject to a uniquely English phenomenon we call the initial-stress-derived noun, if we're linguists with diplomas. I call it: to adject an adjective out of an agent.

And when a noun becomes a verb, it's subject to a reverse phenomenon for which the linguists have no name, which I call: to agént an agent out of an adjective.

Though it is not to create initial stress, it is not to create final stress either. It is simply to move the stress in the other direction. That's the way it's worked, for almost every noun/verb pairing there is. Rightwise on paper is lipwise forward, and so the stress progression creates a barking, peeling lipwise forwardry of the mouth, which is pointedly appropriate for the new syntactical placement of the word.

Admonish, admonition. The reason diminOOtion doesn't work, the reason you pronounced it wrong, is because it feels like you have agénted, when you should have adjected. The maker of the word fucked when he should have unfucked, and so we've all been stuck saying "dimunition" when we've clearly read otherwise.

Haven't we?

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