Geez. Now I have to learn a whole new language?

Murrmurr said:
I know doctors are people, too, and maybe it's just me, but for the 15 minutes or so that I'm being medically examined or treated, I prefer to be reminded they are professionals, products of higher education.

The word poop isn't a term I use in everyday speech. But, again, maybe that's just me.
And I'm not angry about it at all, it's not a big deal, I just don't like it.
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I would .
Outside of work if I were talking about it for some reason, I would call it poo or poop. So I use same layman's language at work too.

Just like other topics I might talk about to patients I use everyday words - when was your last period? Not when did you last menstruate?
This is to avoid strokes or heart attacks, not to avoid myocardial infarcts ore cerebral vascular accidents.
 
January said:
I would .
Outside of work if I were talking about it for some reason, I would call it poo or poop. So I use same layman's language at work too.

Just like other topics I might talk about to patients I use everyday words - when was your last period? Not when did you last menstruate?
This is to avoid strokes or heart attacks, not to avoid myocardial infarcts ore cerebral vascular accidents.
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Am just completing a human biology college class. So many big words to learn but sometimes the scientists just said screw it, let's call it the thing.

The Sigmoid Colon is, well, the thing that looks like an S.

We need to repair the innominate bone, yeah, the one with no name.

There's the Duodenum, thing that's about twelve finger widths long.
 
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Rakaia said:
To cark it or cark out means to die.
Incidentally my mother gave me strict instructions not to say that she passed away but to say that she died. Extended family persuaded me not to use the slang in her obituary.
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:) Thanks. I'm sorry about you mom, Rakaia. I don't like the euphemism "passed away" either.
AI says that "cark" may be short for "carcass". Or may be derived from "caw", the cry of a carrion-eating bird, similar to "to croak". Origin: 1970s Australia.
 
gruntlabor said:
:) Thanks. I'm sorry about you mom, Rakaia.
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Thank you for your kind sentiments, I always wince a little when someone says that.
My mother was a remarkable woman, an ex-army nurse, who lived and died on her own terms. She died at 96 years old and had a totally worn out body.
We weren't that close, I only shed the briefest tear when she died.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Bespoke. Charcuterie board. Curated.

What's wrong with custom made, meat and cheese tray, hand picked? Oy! If we use trendy words, does that make us classy?
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There are still bespoke tailors around are there not? That word has been around for a long time as has "curated" in the sense of curating an exhibition or a museum. It is not that they have suddenly become trendy they have always been used in those contexts. I have never heard them used at other times.

Charcuterie board
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Now that is a word I have never heard used in any context, I must have led a sheltered life.
 
Murrmurr said:
On the other side of the coin, all my doctors are using the word "poop" instead of feces, defecation, and bowel movement, and "people juice" is their new term for bodily fluids. :oops:

Personally, I don't like it. It's extremely concerning when I'm the only one in the room who sounds like he went to med school.
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My mother hates the word and never said it.

Oh LOL my dad hated it too. Nowadays they sell the poop game for kids. My kids loved saying poop. My dad drove us and they kept saying poop and he got angry and told them to be quiet, so they stopped saying it, meanwhile looking like this. This is from the poop game I bought for them.

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Wombat said:
There are still bespoke tailors around are there not? That word has been around for a long time as has "curated" in the sense of curating an exhibition or a museum. It is not that they have suddenly become trendy they have always been used in those contexts. I have never heard them used at other times.
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There are!
You can also get bespoke ironwork, and bespoke furniture, bespoke shoes, bespoke software, and other things.
 
jujube said:
I've always heard that you can tell someone's "social strata" by the way they describe death:

Upper class: "Grandfather died in 1925."

Middle class: "Dad passed away in 1962."

Lower class: "Uncle Bubba went to be with Jesus last year."
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An old sociology book has a chapter that mentions this kind of thing- that it's not difficult to determine a person's social class by his or her vocabulary. It's 'creepily' accurate.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Well. I saw a commercial yesterday for a mattress. Not new words, but words used in what can best be called a new way. This mattress, I kid you not, brings clarity and balance. Mmhmm. Clarity and balance.
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With the trend going on to name kids with weirdly-spelled or off-the-wall names, the advertisement meant there's lots of room for the whole family. "OK, Clarity and Little Balance, you can sleep with us tonight, but tomorrow night you have to sleep in your own beds!" or maybe Clarity's a cat and Balance is a dog?
 
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