Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by 4bee

Nor the fact that even not knowing there was such a word, WhoTF would even ask about it.


Funny olde world ain't it?

Try this one for size. Glenelg (a beach in Adelaide)

With my new found knowledge, Glenelg is a Palindrome but not a Semordnilap.

Originally Posted by pop058

Ya learn something new everyday.

Without external aids ( google, etc.) does anyone know what a "semordnilap " is and offer an example. I freely admit that a couple of hours ago, I did not even think there was a word for this situation.

Geez

If the smart people in this world are so smart to come up for a word to describe another word, they could at least make up a word that is not so smart people can actually pronounce it🤬

Another one of these words that I heard lately, had know idea how to spell it after hearing it and definitely had no idea what it meant, until “Mr Google” helped out (with the spelling as well as the meaning) was petrichor (better check the spelling because autocorrect doesn’t even recognise it)

Next time after a good dry spell and the wet stuff falls from the sky, your nostrils will be able to coerce with your brain and say “that’s petrichor I can smell”

It will be pointless saying the phrase to anybody else because as with the word “semordnilap”, it will go in one ear and go out the other of the listener and instead of looking like a clever dick, you will look like a dick head

Now, is there a word for the way I have phrased the word “dick” in the one sentence , probably, but now it’s making me feel like one (hopefully the missus has the same thinking but in a different way)

Bloody smart people ☹️☹️☹️
I might just catch a few with the trap I have posted on the “odd,interesting and funny pics” post 🤫

Originally Posted by pop058

With my new found knowledge, Glenelg is a Palindrome but not a Semordnilap.

That thinking should take into account that the majority of residents are backward. If not all.


Shirley that qualifies?

EDIT.
Petrichor. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=petrichor+meaning&source=hp&ei=k9TbYLvKFO 7H4-EPg6yfuAE&iflsig=AINFCbYAAAAAYNvioyJVPNfVo6C06_RQp itdn2obf3By&oq=petrichor&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYAT IFCAAQsQMyBQgAELEDMggILhDHARCvATICCAAyAggAMgIIADIC CAAyAggAMgIIADICCABQyg5Yyg5giiFoAHAAeACAAYwDiAGMA5 IBAzMtMZgBAKABAqABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=gws-wiz


It looks like we two will be the only happy people when it rains.

Originally Posted by 4bee

That thinking should take into account that the majority of residents are backward. If not all.

Human = Namuh


According to a user from Australia, the name Namuh means "The ancient Sumerian creatrix of heaven and earth, Nammu. ... According to a user from South Dakota, U.S., the name Namuh means "One Whom God Loves".

Originally Posted by Saitch

Human = Namuh


According to a user from Australia, the name Namuh means "The ancient Sumerian creatrix of heaven and earth, Nammu. ... According to a user from South Dakota, U.S., the name Namuh means "One Whom God Loves".

Reminds me of that Martian word "Nan-nu Nan-nu".

That could be a bit handy one day.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Reminds me of that Martian word "Nan-nu Nan-nu".

That could be a bit handy one day.

That wasn't Martian, it's Orkian.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

That wasn't Martian, it's Orkian.

From the Orkney Islands perchance? Both of those languages sound pretty much the same to me.

A bit like English & Inuit. Not allowed to say Eskimo these days. Oh ****

What does Nanu Nanu mean?

Nanu nanu (pronounced NAH-noo NAH-noo), also variously spelled Na-nu Na-nu, Na-No Na-No, and Nanoo Nanoo, is the typical Orkan greeting. Its usage may be similar to the Hawaiian word "aloha," which may be used as both a greeting and a farewell, since Mork also uses the phrase in his weekly mental reports to Orson.