Wednesday, January 28, 2009

"Voiceless labiodental fricative"

Believe it or not, I came across this phrase today. I just had to share it with you.

How about a round of Balderdash? Post your definition before looking it up, or wait till we get some definitions and I'll post a poll.

9 comments:

g said...

ken,

i actually read about such nonsense earlier this month. don't ask me how to make the sound.

where did you come across this? are you being forced to learn a semitic language too?

grant

Eldon and Janeil Olsen said...

It's the "fff" sound.

Mom

Ken said...

I guess I seriously underestimated my viewership. Remind me not to play Balderdash with you.

I came across it while trying to figure out how a Greek letter used in a vapor pressure formula was pronounced.

Imagitext said...

Gosh, sense no one else has the guts, I'll try. Uhhh, how about a boom with no boom, or a careless lab owner who doesn't talk to his workers. I'm suprized with myself. It didn't have any of the words: fairy, magic, all of the universe depends on it, book, black holes, superfluid, death rays, or Discovery, yet I was able to concentrate on it without difficulty.

My word is: dedsis I haven't killed them! Yet...

Neil said...

I was going to say "ppffthhh". But I wouldn't want to pay balderdash with a speech therapist or classicist.

darkfire said...

scary! You guys are just scary. I thought maybe it had to do with teeth or a labrador. Also, I thought maybe a fricative was another way to say a cussword.

brenda said...

"Tisk, tisk"??

brenda said...

You remember mom used to be a speech therapist, right? I had to take a class on that, too, but I obviously didn't remember.

Anonymous said...

Voiceless Labiodental Fricative. Noun (a faux-latin Christian Neologism). A practice discovered on a few South East Pacific Islands in the early 19th century. The practice fell out of favor in the pacific when the modernising rise of Christianity made it difficult for the Islanders to justify. It gained popularity in France until indecency laws of the 1950's forced it underground. Current incidence of the practice is thus unknown.

Let's keep do some more blogging Balderdash. Except is the term balderdash trademarked? How about Bloggerdash? Should we trademark and charge people a nickel to use it? I'll put one up on velvyandc-bones called 'Multiple Mortal Probabtion'. -c-bones. Also, I propose we put the word verifictaion words up with our comments. I think they supra-consciously describe you in some way. Mine right now for this comment is inerpa, as in, "c-bones, you screwed that up again, you just are so inerpa." You are not going to believe this. I just got denied on the word verification. Now it is zedostsm, as in, "c-bones, you are so inerpa, you must now subsribe to the belief system zedostsm in order to post comments".