Is there a name for that?

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NSD_Blonde, there should be a word for that!

There should be a word for when an idiom has literally just happened, like when someone actually spills some milk and then cries, which I did when I was first breastfeeding and it was so difficult and painful and time consuming just to produce a few ml of the precious stuff. Once I was exhausted and the little container tipped over and I cried!

And a word for when a cliche literally happens, like the time TheBF washed a bunch of whites with a brand new red dress and everything but the dress came out pink. He told me that he never believed that would really happen. You could us it if your room actually looked like a pig sty, or if you actually ate a crow.

I suppose "actually literally" describes it, but it would be cool if there was a specific name to describe those phenomena.
 
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I have dysphonetic dyslexia, I would say fairly pronounced, and I don't think I have any trouble organizing thoughts where it concerns naming objects. Maybe just me though.

I should have added: But I have plenty trouble switching letters! :biggrin1:

Ring sprolls, park is trucked, bummer sowling (summer bowling), gangers rame (Rangers game).....oh the list goes on! When I say these things they sound totally right! That's the odd thing.

I just learned the name for a different condition I have not too long ago. I never knew the name for it.

Dermatographic urticaria. Dermographia is another name.

I can totally write on my skin. Or make welts. It disappears after about a half hour.

This is what it looks like.

A few years ago, I had just taken off my bra and I guess I had scratched where the straps had been. My sister proclaimed, "Oh my GOD, what is THAT?!" -- that's when I discovered it.

Some people do body art with it.

http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/2008/02/dermographia-as-art.html
 
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Is there a name for skipping over words? I do that one and I don't know of a word for it.

Enid, I read that sentence a few times and it made sense to me. If you hadn't told me something was wrong with it, I don't think I would have noticed it. I'm a terrible editor because sometimes when I read something, I automatically correct it in my head without realizing that I didn't read what was written, so I'll proofread something I wrote and I won't notice that I left out an essential word. I was reading something out loud to TheBF and one line was intentionally written incorrectly, I kept "fixing" it then stopping and stuttering and trying it again because I knew that I wasn't reading it the way it was written. I gave up.

Dermatographia is neat. I tried it on myself just now. Nothing happened.
 

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Should you ever ask a 'midget' a question, make sure you don't refer to them by that term as it's quite offensive. The correct term is 'little person' or even 'dwarf'. And a really tall little person? Might just be a short person! :biggrin1:

Spoonerism!

Wouldn't that technically be a Dwarf?


H_S--And the dish ran away with the spoon.

ok, i'm 4'10---so, short in stature. do not pet a person "short in stature" on the head.

***Never forget who you are, for surely the world won’t. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you ****quote from the imp (tyrion lannister) from game of thrones. the dwarf
 
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Is there a name for skipping over words? I do that one and I don't know of a word for it.

Dermatographia is neat. I tried it on myself just now. Nothing happened.

apparently it is part of dyslexia!

Understanding The Dyslexia Syndrome

i tried to write your name on my arm, but i wrote it too big so i just got 'petit'.

:biggrin1:
 

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apparently it is part of dyslexia!

Understanding The Dyslexia Syndrome

i tried to write your name on my arm, but i wrote it too big so i just got 'petit'.

:biggrin1:

That is neat I love it!

I meant that I skip over words when I'm writing and then I often don't notice that I did it (because I knew what I meant) when I re-read what I wrote. I don't think I skip over words when I'm reading but I do auto-correct other people's errors in my head so that I don't notice a lot of them. In the case of that one line, the point of it was that it was grammatically incorrect but I couldn't make what I knew agree with what my mouth wanted to say! It caused a kind of traffic jam where my tongue was receiving different messages and I kept trying to start over again which made me sound like a record skipping. I gave up and just said, "You can read what it says."

That whole stuttering traffic jam thing actually happens regularly. It happens quite often when I try to talk about the washing machine, which usually goes like, "I need some washing liquid for the washing machine, I mean the washing machine... the clothes washing machine... the machine that washes clothes." It's because I start the sentence off and I think, "Wait, is that the washing machine? Or is the other one the washing machine?" I'm actually trying to remember which one is called the washing machine, so the loop-de-loop my mouth is doing is happening while I'm trying to remember which one is which.

I do show some of the things on that list. My writing is often very messy from crossing things out, even if it's just a one word answer because sometimes I start writing from the second letter instead of the first but I didn't leave enough room for the first letter, things like that, so I try to squeeze the first letter in where it doesn't fit or I'll cross out the first attempt and start over again. There was one document I filled out for my son's doctor to help assess his development level that was so covered in crossing outs that I was sure that the doctor would think his mom was an idiot. I even messed up writing his birthday because I started with the wrong number and had to cross that out and I thought, "Is he going to think I don't know when he was born?" :redface:
 
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I once read that people who have better reading fluency are more likely to miss things like a repeated word, misspellings, and other minor errors when they're reading. I do score very well on reading fluency tests. I've always been an excellent test taker. It makes sense to me that the more fluent a person is the less likely they are to notice those kinds of things, but maybe that's because it's a flattering description of the kind of errors I frequently make. :tongue:
 

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I once read that people who have better reading fluency are more likely to miss things like a repeated word, misspellings, and other minor errors when they're reading. I do score very well on reading fluency tests. I've always been an excellent test taker. It makes sense to me that the more fluent a person is the less likely they are to notice those kinds of things, but maybe that's because it's a flattering description of the kind of errors I frequently make. :tongue:
Pleese dont reed my posts too close then. :rolleyes:
 

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There should be a word for when an idiom has literally just happened, like when someone actually spills some milk and then cries, which I did when I was first breastfeeding and it was so difficult and painful and time consuming just to produce a few ml of the precious stuff. Once I was exhausted and the little container tipped over and I cried!

There are things I read about that make me a little bit sad and a little bit happy at the same time, which is what I felt when I read this. I am sure that was an emotional experience for you, but I bet it is also one you will always remember. Just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! :wink:
 

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Two more:

1. Does that line that runs from the hip to the groin have a name? The sexy one that shows up on people with good abs along the crease where the lymph nodes are. What is that called?

2. There should be a third person possessive pronoun that is non-gendered so that I don't have to write "If a person's mate is happy then he or she should be happy that his or her mate is also happy." That is so awkward!

Pleese dont reed my posts too close then. :rolleyes:

Ha! It's more like I only catch things a certain percent of the time, but with a really high error rate.

There are things I read about that make me a little bit sad and a little bit happy at the same time, which is what I felt when I read this. I am sure that was an emotional experience for you, but I bet it is also one you will always remember. Just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! :wink:

Awww! :smile:
 

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TheBF says two colors that look ugly together should be called "insultimentory colors."
 

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I think the crease along the hip and groin is called the Illiac Crest, or something like that. Not sure, though.

I know when I can't find a word for something, I'll usually use the word "thing" as sort of an all purpose. Like "Yeah, I left my keys on the thing in the hallway."
 

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I think the crease along the hip and groin is called the Illiac Crest, or something like that. Not sure, though.
I believe that refers to the outside of the actual hipbone itself, and not to the crease. It does have an anatomical name, but I've forgotten at the moment, just like I've forgotten almost all the Latin I used to know! If you don't use it... I'm sorry how does that end again? :tongue:

I once heard someone refer to that crease as the David line. I assumed she was referring to the statue of David, for some reason. At least that was the image that popped to mind for me!

I know when I can't find a word for something, I'll usually use the word "thing" as sort of an all purpose. Like "Yeah, I left my keys on the thing in the hallway."
I usually pause while I try to recall, which causes my mate to assume that I forgot to finish the sentence.
 

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Two more:

1. Does that line that runs from the hip to the groin have a name? The sexy one that shows up on people with good abs along the crease where the lymph nodes are. What is that called?

Awww! :smile:

inguinal ligament/crease
sometimes called pelvic line, Apollo's/Adonis' Belt
Mr. Bbucko calls it "cum gutters"
 

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inguinal ligament/crease
sometimes called pelvic line, Apollo's/Adonis' Belt
Mr. Bbucko calls it "cum gutters"

That's it! And I used it just a few months ago, too. Slippery word it is, can't seem to find anchor in my brain.

I like Adonis' belt.
 

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I think the crease along the hip and groin is called the Illiac Crest, or something like that. Not sure, though.

I know when I can't find a word for something, I'll usually use the word "thing" as sort of an all purpose. Like "Yeah, I left my keys on the thing in the hallway."

It used to be called the iliac furrow.
Adonis belt or Apollo's belt are used by bodybuilders sometimes.
Some peeps say athlete's girdle.
I think I would go with Petite's preference for Apollo's belt.