What about the time when his body was temporarily hosting the consciousness of one of Dax’s symbiote’s former female hosts, Audrid Dax?
But then again I guess that’s just a female Trill inside of a male Ferengi body, not an actual female Ferengi. Never mind.
Interesting. I knew about 28 of those words. Most of them were of non-English origin such as Doula or Khol. Some I knew from reading technical texts because of my profession and others because of reading so many old books that fell into the public domain. I think I should study more english.
I didn’t recognise 4 words in that list. It seems that most of the men appear to physicists and most of the women dressmakers. I wonder how that list would go if you considered social standing or wealth instead of gender.
Thanks.
They collected this data from thousands of participants.
They can’t use “highest degree” as even a weak proxy for social class because it tends to be directly related to the size of ones vocabulary. (Plus, the PhD who writes articles for the Journal of Dress History is way more educated than the high schooler who may have seen a Nova program once.)_
Any additional variables would require a new study.
Yeah…it hurt a little seeing that one.
I wonder how many tests were aborted after the test taker saw that word?
Could also be spin 1 (e.g. photons), or any integer in principle although no particles with higher spin are known.
Integer spin, not zero.
EDIT: Argh sat on this too long and was sniped!
Aren’t gravitons spin 2?
Sadly, the word is still used for an entire genre of pornography. Or so I hear…
i knew all of those words on that part of the list because 1) i worked as housekeeping supervisor at a high end resort in estes park where we had damask tablecloths, taffeta curtains, chenille covered chairs, and chambray shirt uniforms for the housemen who worked the 4 a.m. to 11 a.m. shift; 2) my wife and i got married in full renaissance costumes and went on to win first prize four years in a row at a local mardi gras party so through our costumers i learned about bandeau and kohl; and 3) part of the preparations for my younger sons wedding involved my making screens from masses of camouflage tulle because their wedding colors were camo and orange (note, the orange was my son’s favorite color).
it’s amazing how much you can learn about things like that when you have multiple memorable experiences with them.
I had no idea what that word was, & started to look it up.
Then it dawned on me that it has two syllables, not three & it doesn’t rhyme with ‘tamale’.
Seems like they could have used some other word.
It’s been at least that long since the time I saw it, and it was hypenated.
If you have detected one, I’d love to hear about it.
The List of UK specific and US specific words displays even higher disparity,
Only 8 percent of Usonians have ever heard of a quango. Can you even imagine what it’s like to live in such a country?
Well those are mainly a difference in terminology in different countries. Tippex = whiteout, or liquid paper; biro = a pen maker; dodgem = bumper cars; chaffinch = a type of small bird. The tombola is kinda unique to church fairs in England. If you were to make the substitution for the americans you’d get higher recogniction results.
Going the other way, acetaminophen = paracetemol; most of the other terms relate to popular foods.
I recognized Tombola from Evita
She won’t help the hungry once a month at your tómbolas
she’ll simply take control as
you disappear
It’s an older paper, I read the bit about culturally and gender dependent vocabulary as a warning to other researchers
Interesting inclusions in the database
Conjunctivitus M 1.1 F 1.98
Zoological M 1.6 F 2.58
How many Happy Mutants are hip to these 15 words/terms?
peduncle
bellguard
cantle
talatat
pommel
flying jesses
elytra
fillis
Vuylstekeara
pastern
furnishings (not meaning furniture or pillows, etc)
nare
hallux
mastaba
keiki
Yes, some began life in other tongues, but we’ve adopted 'em and speakers of English and other languages commonly use 'em.
Oh, and gender, schmender!
And German for cabbage. Rotkohl is red cabbage (yum!).
Kohl, AKA kohl kajal, kajal, etc is still in use by folks of all ages and genders in many Middle and Far Eastern places, and is available to people across the world.
I was quite surprised how easily it’s applied with the stick! Just close an eye, rest the tip of the stick at the inside corner, and lay it down across the eyelid with a sort of rolling motion. Smudging it is also ridiculously easy: just do the same thing with the edge of a finger, and the line is immediately de-harsh-en’d w/o rubbing at it.
It’s also available in brown and white. I wanna try the latter - dark eyeliners started making my pale self look really old while still in my early 30s.
ETA: The ancient kohl formulae also treated eye infections, and kept away disease-bearing flies.
Now you are contradicting yourself.
Ferengi aren’t monsters per se, they’re aliens who are meant to symbolize, basically, nineteenth-century Europeans, like maybe the British Empire during the Opium Wars
In the real world ferengi is an Arabic word for European people
