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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject: Worst new neologism: bro-mance |
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| The Urban Dictionary has an entry from 2005 so it's not that new. But I've been seeing it on TV a lot these days. Anyway, bro-mance. Bro-friends. Ugg. |
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keetrainchild
Joined: 06 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Strange word.. I would substitute comaraderie or maybe switch to Greek and try Phileo. The word just sounds wrong, and it reminds me of "bromide", which is completely unrelated.
You know, in a couple centuries, idiotic words like this will probably be considered common English, and there will be new, even worse words to rally against.
Your location is odd, especially considering that hospitals in general, and special careplaces for maimed or unwanted children, were started by people who were religiously motivated and were generally headed by religious orders. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Is "careplaces" a new word?
Yuck. |
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MattAwesome
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| i would call it gay. |
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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
Location: Paradise
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| keetrainchild wrote: |
Strange word.. I would substitute comaraderie or maybe switch to Greek and try Phileo. The word just sounds wrong, and it reminds me of "bromide", which is completely unrelated.
You know, in a couple centuries, idiotic words like this will probably be considered common English, and there will be new, even worse words to rally against.
Your location is odd, especially considering that hospitals in general, and special careplaces for maimed or unwanted children, were started by people who were religiously motivated and were generally headed by religious orders. |
So hospices are proof of religious people--no atheist would suggest that there are no religious people. Do you think the existence of children dying of incurable diseases proves the existence of God? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps Hemingway's greatest short story:
For sale: Baby shoes. Never used. |
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keetrainchild
Joined: 06 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| michaelambling wrote: |
| So hospices are proof of religious people--no atheist would suggest that there are no religious people. Do you think the existence of children dying of incurable diseases proves the existence of God? |
No, I think it proves the existence of an bad (not thoroughly, but at least partly) world, which I have a basis to judge as bad because of a set of standards which goes beyond what happens in this world. An atheist would have no solid basis for judging incurable diseases as absolutely bad, thus no reason to start a children's hospice. If the children die, it's natural selection at work. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps Hemingway's greatest short story:
For sale: Baby shoes. Never used. |
I never liked that one. It's just sappy, not properly pathetic. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| Koveras wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Perhaps Hemingway's greatest short story:
For sale: Baby shoes. Never used. |
I never liked that one. It's just sappy, not properly pathetic. |
There's the classic "If Adam and Eve Never Met". Runs zero words. And then there's "He was the last man on the planet. There was a knock at the door." Or words to that effect. |
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misschel
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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This word is getting a lot more popular.
There's even a show on MTV called "Bromance"; it's Brody Jenner's search for a new BFF.
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:13 am Post subject: |
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| Jesus, who dreams this crap up? I can imagine thinking it, but would never want it to become mainstream. |
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5600
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
Location: At an undisclosed FEMA camp.
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There is a movie out now in the states about this. Some guy's getting married but he has no male friends to be the best man so his future wife says she won't marry him unti he gets a guy friend. The movie is all about the "bromance" between them.
Remember the "bro" the from Seinfled? The man bra. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| bunch of bromosexuals |
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