\[ **BT: [[society#Germanic languages|Germanic languages]]** ] --- # English language --- ## grammar, punctuation - [[hyphen, en dash, em dash]] --- ## English language vocabularly --- ### impecunious > ‘*a.* Destitute of money.’[^1] [[Impecuniousness has been termed ‘the disease of the wise’.]][^2] --- ### META META, as it’s used by video game enthusiasts, had always confused me when compared to the *other* use of meta. Turns out, the two terms aren’t related: they only sound the same!! Per the Urban Dictionary: > 1. Meta means about the thing itself. It’s seeing the thing from a higher perspective instead of from within the thing, like being self-aware. > 2. A term used in mmo meaning the Most Effective Tactic Available. It’s basically what works in a game regardless of what you wish would work.[^3] - **BT:** [[games, video|video games]] --- ### NSFW > ‘**Not safe for work** (**NSFW**) is Internet slang or shorthand used to mark links to content, videos, or website pages the viewer may not wish to be seen viewing in a public, formal, or controlled environment.’[^4] --- ### omnium-gatherum > ‘**omnium-gatherum** (noun). a miscellaneous collection (as of things or persons)’[^5] --- ### TL;DR > ‘**TL;DR** or **tl;dr**, short for “too long; didn’t read”, is internet slang often used to introduce a summary of an online post or news article. It is also used as an informal interjection commenting that a block of text has been ignored due to its length.’[^6] [^1]: Peter Finch, ed., ‘Impecunious’, *[[Finch, The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary, 1959|The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary]]*, (London: George Newnes, \[1959?]), p. 740. [^2]: Manly P. Hall, ‘Introduction’, in *The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans* (London: J. Valpy, 1816. Reprinted by Samuel Wesier, 1872), p. vi. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/embed/theoreticarithme0000tay. [^3]: pcheolsu \[pseud.], ‘Meta’, *Urban Dictionary*, accessed 2 December 2022, [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meta](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meta). [^4]: ‘Not safe for work’, Wikipedia, last edited 8 January 2025, 12:59 (UTC), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work. [^5]: ‘Omnium-gatherum’, Merriam-Webster, accessed 25 July 2024, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/omnium-gatherum. [^6]: ‘TL;DR’, Wikipedia, last updated 8 December 2024, 15:56 (UTC), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TL;DR.