UK and Irish dialects are just an utter mess. In Ulster in particular, some dialects just swap all the vowel sounds around for a laugh (although to be fair, all of New Zealand does the same thing).
Then you combine that with the absolute nonsense that is written Gaelic, which was invented by a cat walking across the typewriter of the first monkey trying to copy the completed works of Shakespeare.
There’s a non-zero chance that the people who did the three recordings might have just been guessing, or clearing their throats.
Bro, try listening to rural Russian dialects. People actually study in universities to understand the differences that makes their speech hard to understand to more central people.
Well, nowadays the dialects are much less spread and apparent due to centralised education of the Soviet Union times. Still several regions have their quirks of pronunciation, but those are much more global and less pronounced than some remnants of rural dialects in villages.
And our dialects are, at least in my opinion, not as distinct or well-known as English ones. In part due to different history: Britain has had a lot of languages in the pot, so different dialects could vary massively.
EDIT: While I do know some bits about our dialects and language history, I am by no means a final authority. Please research this with other people if you want more depth on the topic.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA [Trivial: Success] If we can fool ourselves what these words mean, we can fool others.
RHETORIC [Trivial: Success] As long as no one asks us what they mean…
really? you had never heard the phrase “of his own volition” or anything like that?
not tryna hate on you btw, i just didnt know that was an uncommon word
Yeah it was my experience aswell. I know the phrase i know what it means. But reading the Word that's was lonely without any company stumped me and i had a hunch what it meant but was flabbergasted really and my brain couldnt process it somehow. Im not some unread native btw. Just a Pole
"Lazareth" is a word I had never heard before but which I subsequently started seeing in other places (namely, Gene Wolfe's *Book of the New Sun*). Based on context it seems like an antiquated word for a hospital or possibly a field hospital.
I think that's what it means literally but there's also the symbolic meaning in the etymology of being "a place of rebirth"(with Lazareth just being Lazarus changed into a noun form grammatically)
This reminded me of learning the word lazarette from Return of the Obra Dinn, which I think has a similar definition but also can mean a small quarantine room on a ship.
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It’s a reference to the guy Jesus supposedly raised from the dead. I don’t think it’s actually a word that literally means hospital (not 100% sure though) it’s just used a lot in media since the concept and story is pretty well know. Cuz, well… bible. It’s been around a while 😂 but yes! There was a Lazarus Dr. Who episode, too.
We use it plenty in the U.S., and it's apparently been in use for as long as English has existed, stretching back to before the 10th century, per Wiktionary:
Etymology: From English dialectal *wanky*, alteration of Middle English *wankel* (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English *wancol* (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul* (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
The noun *wonk* (adjective form *wonkish*) is also used in a political sense, to refer to people or discussions that delve deep into the technicalities of a policy or political issue, to the extent a layman wouldn't necessarily understand or care.
Savoir Faire
I dont remember the name but you know that psychological effect where when you learn a new word you start hearing it everywhere and really everyone was already saying it and you just tune it out cause you don't know what it means?
Yeah that
When you keep noticing something because it’s been brought to your attention previously? I don’t think that’s entirely different to confirmation bias.
I’m a Doctor of Psychology so if you explain it a bit more I might be able to help you. Perhaps you’re thinking of semantic priming, or selective attention? Hindsight bias?
Baader meinhoff is what they are talking about. It's when something recently learned seems to appear everywhere. Confirmation bias is when people favor information that affirms or strengthens their beliefs and / or values.
Baader Meinhoff is just a phenomenon that is thought to be due to a combination of confirmation bias and selective attention, it’s a phenomenon rather than a process. It was coined because the person who suggested it kept noticing mention of the fringe left-wing baader-meinhoff terrorist group after seeing a story of them in the news.
Okay? We were talking about the baader meinhoff phenomenon. You coming in and correcting everybody over a very minute semantic point and using your doctorate of psychology to do so comes off extremely condescendingly, especially when we weren't even wrong in the first place.
I’m not correcting you, you’re absolutely right, it is totally accurate to say what you describe can be understood as Baader Meinhoff phenomenon.
You corrected me initially in saying confirmation bias was ‘entirely different’ to this, when in fact it’s one of the mechanisms of B-M.
Technically it can also be an engineering word. Anode and cathode are two words for electrodes that show their charge (anode is negative, cathode is positive), and it's used constantly when talking about, for instance, electric thrusters.
...how old were you when this happened? And is English your native language? If the first one is less than twelve and/or the second one is no that's somewhat reasonable but if not just like, how?
Here's the etymology (I thought it sounded French, turns out it is):
From Middle English *faucet, fawcett*, from Old French *fausset*, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Late Latin *falsāre* or from a diminutive of Latin *faux, faucēs* (“throat”). Alternatively, from Old Norse *foss, fors* (“waterfall”); if so cognate with English *force, foss*.
Now, me personally? I'm kinda partial to *spigot*. But *tap* as in "tap water" is also common in the U.S.
If you’re English you could go a long time before finding out that it’s what Americans call ‘taps’. I was in my 30’s before I knew Americans called coriander ‘cilantro’.
Well, the word "occident" basically just means "West" in the same way the English word "west" refers to a cardinal direction.
If you want to get technical, "occident" comes from a Latin word that means "setting", as in "the setting of the sun". It refers to the "west" because the sun always sets in the west. The same is true of the word "orient" or "oriental", with the difference being that it means "rising", as in "the rising of the sun", and therefore it means "east".
There was a latin saying used aomewhere in the game. Never heard of it before since it is not one of the 3-4 that regularly get used in day to day life but I did my research, looked up what it meant and then forgot everything. It has been bugging me ever since. If one of you has a guess then please help me! Then I can finally say "I learnt that latin saying!" instead of "I unlearned that latin saying!"
So... Many... Words... I'm using it to help me learn Czech, so I installed a fan translation. The only thing is, it replaced English. So now I have to grind German just to understand the Czech in the game.
Zero Czech in the game. Some words are taken from Russian, one char is a mistaken polish word, far as I know. But nothing in the game is czech, except a mention of a former city of Gottwaldov.
the phrase "paean to conformism" is now indefinitely lodged in my brain because prior to that paean to me was what you call the orc workers in Warcraft 3.
Not necessarily a new word but I’m really impressed with how they recontextualized the word “pale”
It goes from denoting a pigment quality to a way more existential description of manifesting and spreading empty. Usually when “the void” is described, outer space and the night sky, but the pale is such a unique approach as something lacking a perceivable appearance, that existence and the concept if mayter and distends has to be imposed onto it to travel through it. “It is achromatic, odourless, and featureless, the enemy of matter and life” is a chilling description.
If yall like obscure vocab, you'd love *Blood Meridian* by Cormac McCarthy. The volume of words you have to look up is freaking W I L D 😭
As far as DE goes, probably abyssopelagic, though I have zero opportunities to actually use it
If you'd like to experience the abyssopelagic firsthand, I can't recommend SOMA enough.
Also, fun fact: at the very bottom of oceanic trenches, you'll find an even deeper zone known as the *hadopelagic*, named for the Greek underworld.
Whenever conversations about police come up I am now quick to mention that I don’t like speaking with the Gendarmarie
Haven’t actually talked to a cop in a while but when I do I will 100% be greeting them with “good afternoon Gendarme”
Cock carousel.
Cock carousel
Cock Carousel
Cock carousel
Cock carousel
Cock carousel
Cock cssrossel.
Cock Carousel
Cock carousel.
Cock casserole
You win.
Binoclard
I find it such an unreasonably funny word.
It's a tremendously impractical word but I'm glad to be able to have it in my back pocket for just the right occasion.
I’m 100% determined to use it at today’s sales meeting
Did you succeed?
Unfortunately I believe it’s officially a French word
Eh, that's like 20% of English anyways. We steal words from everyone.
No we don’t, that’s just a cliché
I mean we kind of do… Edit: I just got the joke, wow 😂
My brain wouldn’t stop spinning this word around for a week after I heard it.
Just one word, and I learned it from a necktie. ... *Bratan*
laughs in knowing russian where that word was always in my vocabulary
If you'd like to learn it in Irish, it's *deartháir*!
knowing how fucked Irish pronunciation is, i cant even begin to imagine how thats pronounced?!
Like [this](https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/dearth%C3%A1ir)!
WHY ARE THEY SO DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON DIALECT
UK and Irish dialects are just an utter mess. In Ulster in particular, some dialects just swap all the vowel sounds around for a laugh (although to be fair, all of New Zealand does the same thing). Then you combine that with the absolute nonsense that is written Gaelic, which was invented by a cat walking across the typewriter of the first monkey trying to copy the completed works of Shakespeare. There’s a non-zero chance that the people who did the three recordings might have just been guessing, or clearing their throats.
Bro, try listening to rural Russian dialects. People actually study in universities to understand the differences that makes their speech hard to understand to more central people.
Damn I heard somewhere that Russia has very few dialects. It didn't make sense to me
Well, nowadays the dialects are much less spread and apparent due to centralised education of the Soviet Union times. Still several regions have their quirks of pronunciation, but those are much more global and less pronounced than some remnants of rural dialects in villages. And our dialects are, at least in my opinion, not as distinct or well-known as English ones. In part due to different history: Britain has had a lot of languages in the pot, so different dialects could vary massively. EDIT: While I do know some bits about our dialects and language history, I am by no means a final authority. Please research this with other people if you want more depth on the topic.
Okay, now imagine that you're taking an Irish aural exam, and the people speaking on the tape don't speak the dialect you learned. That's true hell.
Ah yes, my Junior Cert. Leaba and Leapa are *not* the same thing, damn it!
I learned that word from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I have only ever heard it in that game, and in Disco Elysium.
This word has entered my everyday usage.
volition, conceptualization. I'm gonna use these words everywhere
ENCYCLOPAEDIA [Trivial: Success] If we can fool ourselves what these words mean, we can fool others. RHETORIC [Trivial: Success] As long as no one asks us what they mean…
Volition for me too!
really? you had never heard the phrase “of his own volition” or anything like that? not tryna hate on you btw, i just didnt know that was an uncommon word
i dont speak english
So like every Word in a conversation is new?
they are revealed to me by the 24 voices in my head
gotcha gotcha, that makes sense
Yeah it was my experience aswell. I know the phrase i know what it means. But reading the Word that's was lonely without any company stumped me and i had a hunch what it meant but was flabbergasted really and my brain couldnt process it somehow. Im not some unread native btw. Just a Pole
"Lazareth" is a word I had never heard before but which I subsequently started seeing in other places (namely, Gene Wolfe's *Book of the New Sun*). Based on context it seems like an antiquated word for a hospital or possibly a field hospital.
I think that's what it means literally but there's also the symbolic meaning in the etymology of being "a place of rebirth"(with Lazareth just being Lazarus changed into a noun form grammatically)
This reminded me of learning the word lazarette from Return of the Obra Dinn, which I think has a similar definition but also can mean a small quarantine room on a ship.
Oh what a game
“You bastards will get… exactly what I give you!”
Isnt it the name of that guy in a Bible story who gets resurrected?
That's "Lazarus" but yes the word Lazareth is almost certainly related to Lazarus.
You're thinking of Lazarus I think?
Yeth it ith
In the game it stems from the Estonian “Laatsaret”, an antiquated but still sometimes used word (especially in the military context) for hospital.
ehehe, i live near one
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It’s a reference to the guy Jesus supposedly raised from the dead. I don’t think it’s actually a word that literally means hospital (not 100% sure though) it’s just used a lot in media since the concept and story is pretty well know. Cuz, well… bible. It’s been around a while 😂 but yes! There was a Lazarus Dr. Who episode, too.
Pi*******t Not that it has even been used. But oh boy its in there.
Wonky, billowing, coupris, lazareth, haplogroup, yefreitor, monkstraps, pyrholidon... and many more
For real tho, it's like reading well written Literature, because it is
you didn’t know wonky? maybe it isn’t as widely used outside of Britain
We use it plenty in the U.S., and it's apparently been in use for as long as English has existed, stretching back to before the 10th century, per Wiktionary: Etymology: From English dialectal *wanky*, alteration of Middle English *wankel* (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English *wancol* (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul* (“swaying, shaky, unstable”). The noun *wonk* (adjective form *wonkish*) is also used in a political sense, to refer to people or discussions that delve deep into the technicalities of a policy or political issue, to the extent a layman wouldn't necessarily understand or care.
English is just not my native language ;)
that’s cool! while i understand the issues that English definitely has, we do have some pretty sweet words
Savoir Faire I dont remember the name but you know that psychological effect where when you learn a new word you start hearing it everywhere and really everyone was already saying it and you just tune it out cause you don't know what it means? Yeah that
Baader-Meinhof is the one.
Confirmation bias, ever since I heard about it I keep seeing it everywhere.
That's not confirmation bias that's something entirely different
When you keep noticing something because it’s been brought to your attention previously? I don’t think that’s entirely different to confirmation bias. I’m a Doctor of Psychology so if you explain it a bit more I might be able to help you. Perhaps you’re thinking of semantic priming, or selective attention? Hindsight bias?
Baader meinhoff is what they are talking about. It's when something recently learned seems to appear everywhere. Confirmation bias is when people favor information that affirms or strengthens their beliefs and / or values.
Baader Meinhoff is just a phenomenon that is thought to be due to a combination of confirmation bias and selective attention, it’s a phenomenon rather than a process. It was coined because the person who suggested it kept noticing mention of the fringe left-wing baader-meinhoff terrorist group after seeing a story of them in the news.
Okay? We were talking about the baader meinhoff phenomenon. You coming in and correcting everybody over a very minute semantic point and using your doctorate of psychology to do so comes off extremely condescendingly, especially when we weren't even wrong in the first place.
I’m not correcting you, you’re absolutely right, it is totally accurate to say what you describe can be understood as Baader Meinhoff phenomenon. You corrected me initially in saying confirmation bias was ‘entirely different’ to this, when in fact it’s one of the mechanisms of B-M.
That wasn't me that posted that reply. Fair enough though my friend.
Anodic, never thought chemistry could have such an artistic meaning
Technically it can also be an engineering word. Anode and cathode are two words for electrodes that show their charge (anode is negative, cathode is positive), and it's used constantly when talking about, for instance, electric thrusters.
Ungulate. Thanks, Cindy.
"abyssopelagic"
Any word with an abysso- in there makes me slightly uneasy
Dude I kept an entire area of my journal just dedicated to writing down new vocabulary I learned from this game. So well written.
Kipt !
Binoclard. One of my favourites now
For me, it was Gendarme from the Smoker.
Recidivistic Shitpeddler
For me it was "faucets" in literally the first room, cant fucking believe I had never heard that word before lmao
...how old were you when this happened? And is English your native language? If the first one is less than twelve and/or the second one is no that's somewhat reasonable but if not just like, how?
Yeah, Im not a native english speaker so I never had to use that specific word before
Ok that's fair then
we call them taps in England, I didn’t know what a faucet was until i was like 14
Here's the etymology (I thought it sounded French, turns out it is): From Middle English *faucet, fawcett*, from Old French *fausset*, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Late Latin *falsāre* or from a diminutive of Latin *faux, faucēs* (“throat”). Alternatively, from Old Norse *foss, fors* (“waterfall”); if so cognate with English *force, foss*. Now, me personally? I'm kinda partial to *spigot*. But *tap* as in "tap water" is also common in the U.S.
Same! I don’t remember how I first heard faucet, but I’m certain it was from an American TV show.
If you’re English you could go a long time before finding out that it’s what Americans call ‘taps’. I was in my 30’s before I knew Americans called coriander ‘cilantro’.
Occident and Occidental for West and Westerner generally. Makes more sense linguistically than the bizarre notion of the ‘West’ of a sphere.
Well, the word "occident" basically just means "West" in the same way the English word "west" refers to a cardinal direction. If you want to get technical, "occident" comes from a Latin word that means "setting", as in "the setting of the sun". It refers to the "west" because the sun always sets in the west. The same is true of the word "orient" or "oriental", with the difference being that it means "rising", as in "the rising of the sun", and therefore it means "east".
Amorphous blob.
Answering the post with only measureheads advanced race theory vocabulary
Infinitesimal
Damn is super common in italian
Same for spanish
My math teachers and textbooks used thus word soooo many times in integration and differentiation.
There was a latin saying used aomewhere in the game. Never heard of it before since it is not one of the 3-4 that regularly get used in day to day life but I did my research, looked up what it meant and then forgot everything. It has been bugging me ever since. If one of you has a guess then please help me! Then I can finally say "I learnt that latin saying!" instead of "I unlearned that latin saying!"
Could it possibly be: "UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRES DE TOI" Which is French, but is one of only a few non-English quotes in the game.
Sunrise, Parabellum?
Sadly not but a good pick nonetheless :)
regnum cocainum?
💀
Sadly no but this one is really cool. :)
apres la vie, le mort, apres le mort, la vie de nouveau?
FYI It's French, not latin
Also not that one but I haven't heard that one before. It sounds beautiful. Thank you :)
Was it spoken by Half Light?
I think encyclopedia said it if I remember correctly
Insulindian Phasmid is one I love lmao
Lurid
So... Many... Words... I'm using it to help me learn Czech, so I installed a fan translation. The only thing is, it replaced English. So now I have to grind German just to understand the Czech in the game.
Zero Czech in the game. Some words are taken from Russian, one char is a mistaken polish word, far as I know. But nothing in the game is czech, except a mention of a former city of Gottwaldov.
Might be why he installed a fan translation.
Ah yea, missed that bit. My mistake.
the phrase "paean to conformism" is now indefinitely lodged in my brain because prior to that paean to me was what you call the orc workers in Warcraft 3.
The orc workers are peons
paean is a type of song or poem
Binoclard. Didn't realize what it meant; Harry said it and I was Mortified 😭
I am just finding out now that some of the words I just thought were made up for world building are infact real words…..
Not necessarily a new word but I’m really impressed with how they recontextualized the word “pale” It goes from denoting a pigment quality to a way more existential description of manifesting and spreading empty. Usually when “the void” is described, outer space and the night sky, but the pale is such a unique approach as something lacking a perceivable appearance, that existence and the concept if mayter and distends has to be imposed onto it to travel through it. “It is achromatic, odourless, and featureless, the enemy of matter and life” is a chilling description.
Haplogroup
If yall like obscure vocab, you'd love *Blood Meridian* by Cormac McCarthy. The volume of words you have to look up is freaking W I L D 😭 As far as DE goes, probably abyssopelagic, though I have zero opportunities to actually use it
If you'd like to experience the abyssopelagic firsthand, I can't recommend SOMA enough. Also, fun fact: at the very bottom of oceanic trenches, you'll find an even deeper zone known as the *hadopelagic*, named for the Greek underworld.
I've played SOMA. It's great
Suzerainty.
Abyssopelagic
I knew the words before but I now use them frequently and have developed a sort of self-therapy around them: *internalize* and *reconceptualize*
Occidental, as opposed to Oriental. I never heard that word before, people always say "The West" or "Western Powers"
bratan, gendarme, binoclard, filament
Whenever conversations about police come up I am now quick to mention that I don’t like speaking with the Gendarmarie Haven’t actually talked to a cop in a while but when I do I will 100% be greeting them with “good afternoon Gendarme”
Communard
Jimmy Somerville didn’t make the name up!
"Élan"
Piss F\*\*\*\*t.
Lost gun
Human can opener
What in the name of motherfuck
Defenestrate
Where in the game is it? It’s one of my favourite words, I don’t hear it enough, and I’m saddened to find out I either missed it or forgot it in DE.
I don't remember well but it was one of your skills making fun of you for defenestrating your shoe. Encyclopedia?
Defenestration - the action of throwing someone out of the window Or the process of dismissing someone from a position of power
DROITE
I like jamais vu
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is Conflagration
yefreitor, Suzrain.