Things you didnt know till recently that you should have known...

[Fallenfromgrace]

Close enough...well done grasshopper.

mmmm love it when you call me that but i thought we agreed to keep it to the bedroom?

*yay i DID learn something in chemistry- not just that my teacher's ass and leg's were that tight and hot coz she was a gymnast *

 

[oggbashan]

Docent

Yesterday I came across the word "docent" in a detective novel by Rita Mae Brown.

I had never met it before and it's not in my Concise Oxford Dictionary.

Wikipedia solved it for me. Rita Mae used docent as a description for people giving guided tours of a historic mansion. I know them as "guides" or volunteers. Our National Trust has many of them. I think that English Heritage calls them "staff" or "curators" (or guides).

I had never met the other use of "docent" as a teaching member of a University who is not a professor. Apparently it is also used in Germany, but as they teach "pedagogics" which would get any graduate thrown out of any UK school, I didn't take much notice. "Pedagogue" in the UK is a derogatory term for a pedantic or dogmatic teacher who teaches by old fashioned methods and not an educator... Pedagogue and Pedagogics are noted as being US words.

Og (not a pedagogue)

 

[Chantilyvamp]

I learned not to say the word fanny to my mother-inlaw nor the word suspensders to the father-in-law and brother-in law.

Who'd of thunk it...the things you should know before you move countries

Oh and dont ask the shop assistant in a suit only store if they have size *cough* pants, they look at you like you've gone mad. *makes note even now to keep saying trousers*

 

[elsol]

Trial lawyers are skilled thespians... seriously, do a trial prep with them, the fuckers will laugh exactly the same in the exact same 'joke' placements.

Trial lawyers don't actually have a conception of right and wrong when it comes to their side versus the other... they can actually, without blinking, say "Black is white. White is black. Black is black. White is white."

TV shows are not wholly wrong about what Jury Consultants do... that was the worst part.

 

[ungenderless]

That Steve Winwood actually sung "Bring me a higher love", not "Bring me a pile of love".

Hey, I was just a kid when it was on the radio!

 

[Guest]

I mis-spelled a common word well into adulthood. When one of the first spell checkers caught it, I was sure I'd found an error in the program.

And there are words I commonly read and even use in writing, I don't know for sure how to pronounce, because you rarely hear them.

 

[Misty_Morning]

That Steve Winwood actually sung "Bring me a higher love", not "Bring me a pile of love".

Hey, I was just a kid when it was on the radio!

He was also a member of the band traffic (he was 16) and did other songs like the rock anthem "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and "Can't find my way home" and of course "Gimme some loving"...dudes been around awhile. Check out traffic...you'll love them.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Yesterday I came across the word "docent" in a detective novel by Rita Mae Brown.

I had never met it before and it's not in my Concise Oxford Dictionary.

Wikipedia solved it for me. Rita Mae used docent as a description for people giving guided tours of a historic mansion. I know them as "guides" or volunteers. Our National Trust has many of them. I think that English Heritage calls them "staff" or "curators" (or guides).

I had never met the other use of "docent" as a teaching member of a University who is not a professor. Apparently it is also used in Germany, but as they teach "pedagogics" which would get any graduate thrown out of any UK school, I didn't take much notice. "Pedagogue" in the UK is a derogatory term for a pedantic or dogmatic teacher who teaches by old fashioned methods and not an educator... Pedagogue and Pedagogics are noted as being US words.

Og (not a pedagogue)

Docent is an English adjective meaning teaching (from the latin 'docere' - to teach - think of doctor[ate]). Been around for hundreds of years, Rumply probably remembers when it was first coined.

First time I've been able to tell you something you didn't already know Ogg. Off to to my happy dance.

 

[ungenderless]

He was also a member of the band traffic (he was 16) and did other songs like the rock anthem "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and "Can't find my way home" and of course "Gimme some loving"...dudes been around awhile. Check out traffic...you'll love them.

Oh, I've never heard of the band Traffic. thank you for the tip, I'll look into them.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

So is there something you didnt find out till *relatively* recently or at least a long time after everyone else seemed to know?

Is it funny- ie did your friends/ people around you laugh or look at you as though you came from Mars when you told them you had 'learned something new' ?

I ask because i found out only yesterday that Sultanna's are just dried white grapes and that raisins are just dried red grapes !!!

I never knew before! i got looked at like a moron, but then my best friend was like 'i didnt know that either...' and so i felt better

neways...do tell

I know you started this and I know I like you and I know we are all having fun on your thread, but, did you know what the website of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England says?

"Do you know the difference between raisins, sultanas and currants?
Raisins are dried white grapes usually of the variety 'Muscatel'. The main producers are the USA, Turkey, Greece and Australia.

Sultanas are small raisins. They are seedless, sweet, pale golden in colour and come mainly from Turkey.

Currants are dried, black, seedless grapes originally produced in Greece. They were known as 'raisins of the sun'."

How recent does 'new' mean?

 

[oggbashan]

Docent is an English adjective meaning teaching (from the latin 'docere' - to teach - think of doctor[ate]). Been around for hundreds of years, Rumply probably remembers when it was first coined.

First time I've been able to tell you something you didn't already know Ogg. Off to to my happy dance.

But as far as I know it is not used in the UK. I will have to consult my full scale Oxford English Dictionary but I have been gardening today and I'm not sure I can lift the one-volume OED.

I too could work out the approximate meaning from the Latin verbs doceo, edoceo and educo but the link with guides to a historic building seemed tenuous.

Og

 

[jomar]

He was also a member of the band traffic (he was 16) and did other songs like the rock anthem "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and "Can't find my way home" and of course "Gimme some loving"...dudes been around awhile. Check out traffic...you'll love them.

The Low spark of High Heeled Boys
John Barleycorn Must Die

Both records very good.

There was something about horses I learned the other day I didn't know, but it got deleted by accident.

 

[Misty_Morning]

The Low spark of High Heeled Boys
John Barleycorn Must Die

Both records very good.

Absofuckinglutely fanfuckingtastic!