Zompist Bboard Again

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:51 pm It used to be psyche, as in "to psych someone" (to disturb them so that they perform badly in a game). Back then I would mostly encounter it in speech rather than writing. But then people started using it online, and I guess they didn't know anymore where it came from, so they just pronunciation spelled it. You never see anyone spell it psych nowadays.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:14 amI have never heard it written "sike" myself...

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 5:52 pm

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:51 pm It used to be psyche, as in "to psych someone" (to disturb them so that they perform badly in a game). Back then I would mostly encounter it in speech rather than writing. But then people started using it online, and I guess they didn't know anymore where it came from, so they just pronunciation spelled it.

I learned this from my nieces when they were young, which would have been in the 1980s.

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:26 pm danskma - Danishesity (when something is extremely Danish)

Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 5:20 pm I'm really surprised by this conversation. I've lived here in Vancouver for nearly 15 years now and I don't recall ever hearing this sike!/psych! interjection. Let's see if the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon ends up applying to me too. Or maybe it just isn't used here.

Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:30 amI made a silent bet that I could beat the Baader-Meinhof bias and that I would not see this term used at all for three months, since I didn't recall ever coming across this in nearly 15 years. After which I'd triumphantly return to this thread and announce "hah! I didn't see psyche/sike at all anyway".

I just came across it in the wild 5 minutes ago, in which someone taunted someone else with "Say sike", basically saying that the other person was wrong.

Fuck. Fuck fucking fuck.

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:05 am I came across a text from the Chicago Sun-Times that calls a place with 21000 inhabitants (three zeroes at the end for a total of 5 figures) a "village". Is that standard English usage?

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:05 am I came across a text from the Chicago Sun-Times that calls a place with 21000 inhabitants (three zeroes at the end for a total of 5 figures) a "village". Is that standard English usage?

“It really all depends on which statute under state law the municipality incorporated under,” says David Bennett, executive director of the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, an association of 272 area leaders who convene to collaborate and converse about the health of the metro area. Towns are municipalities that were created prior to the 1872 passing of the Cities and Villages Act, which set out standards and guidelines for incorporation. Established in 1867, Cicero happens to be the only town in the Chicago area. The distinctions between the terms city and village are more ambiguous. ... Joshua Drucker [says] “But in Illinois, there’s very little difference. The largest remaining difference is that villages must have exactly six trustees, whereas cities may have six or more aldermen.”

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 12:04 am Given the definition of City in the field of history as "place where specialised craftsmen reside" i don't think we have to many towns/villages left.