Hard News: We are all twatcocks now (updated with prizes!)
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Shouldn't that be "vuvuzuela" up there?
Oh, and First Post!
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
Shouldn't that be "vuvuzuela" up there?
No, although about half the English speaking population in the world somehow felt that it needed to rhyme with Venezuela on account of their complete inability to comprehend that foreign languages are not all alike in their non-Englishness. I've found that a lot more irritating than the sound of the damn thing.
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See, I like twatcock (rhymes with stopwatch) but I've never used it aloud (other than in a discussion about the word itself). I consider it more a PA System meme than a word that's entered the vocabulary of New Zealand English.
Let's check back in a year and see how far twatcock's bi-sexual reach has spread. Rofflenui, anyone?
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Sacha, in reply to
Rofflenui, anyone?
Twitter encourages the shorter "roflnui" instead, for me. I checked its usage recently on another thread. And behold the similarly-limited spread of the other variant. Not that I'm biased :)
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News of the win attracts one sceptical response from the local twitterverse.
twatcock? @publicaddress has jumped the shark
And a twitter search shows it has already been hurled at Sarah Palin and Bob Jones.
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I am so glad, being not so much scatological as profane in nature (thankyou Ben) that twatcock has taken it's proper place in our vocabulary. Fantastic word. Although I was a little disappointed to see that vajazzling scored the lowest.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
I consider it more a PA System meme than a word that's entered the vocabulary of New Zealand English.
Not that there's anything wrong with that right? I for one would be pretty disappointed if we chose commonsensical but soul-sapping words like credit crunch every year. What are we, Herald readers?
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I have only become aware of the word in this column and was not sure of how it should be said, and had no idea who had ever used it. Hardly the word of the year in my universe.
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It has eluded well-meaning but foul-mouthed PC liberals for decades
ambipudendral insult
Gold! :-) Now let's see how twatcock does at large in the community...
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
You can't please all the people all the time, eh Bruce? Never mind, love. The rest of us will use it enough to make up for your distaste for it.
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Bruce Thorpe, in reply to
No distaste here, just a sense of HN and me drifting apart over time.
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I thought Bruce's was a fair enough response. But then so was Giovanni's..
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Can I change my vote to "ambipudendral"?
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Has someone sent the press release to Dan Savage yet?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Can I change my vote to "ambipudendral"?
It's a fucking stunner, isn't t?
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Can I change my vote to "ambipudendral"?
On reflection, that should be "ambipudendal": the "r" crept in by analogy to "ambidextrous", but it really doesn't belong in pudenda. So to speak.
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See, I like twatcock (rhymes with stopwatch)
Not that I want to return to the pronunciation debate, but I heard it as rhyming with "hatblock" when I wrote it. That may just be because I'm English, but the UK sense of the word "twat" (as a general insult somewhere on the offensiveness scale between "twit" and "wanker', rather than specifically genital in reference) also seemed about right for the context.
But we should defer to Stephen Judd for the pronunciation, since his was the "twat" in question. So to speak.
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Lilith __, in reply to
On reflection, that should be “ambipudendal”: the “r” crept in by analogy to “ambidextrous”, but it really doesn’t belong in pudenda. So to speak.
On the contrary, ambipudendral has a nicely hermaphroditic ring. So to speak.
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Bonus points for the first use of twatcock in the wild - i.e. overhearing a stranger use it in public, e.g. at the supermarket.
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Steve Kilgallon effectively says, "take that, twatcocks!' to the so-called anti-PC brigade...
Like any good PR man, the kingpins of the "PC gone mad" tribe have subtly built this campaign against a concept that never existed on a fine tissue of outrageous lies, published in in-house journals like Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. The tales of the European Union insisting all bananas must be straight. Schoolteachers changing the lyrics of "Baa Baa Black Sheep" to "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep", and the blackboard becoming the chalkboard. Travellers beheading ducks and eating them.
They're all rubbish, but 1984 has finally come to pass: we're all stupid enough to believe them.
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Christopher Nimmo, in reply to
It strikes me that the two most intelligent columnists in the SST are both nominally sportswriters (Stephen Boock and Kilgallon), which seems like a terrible waste. The SST should really swap the roles of Boock and Michael Laws, whose tripe would be perfectly suited to the Sports section.
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Sacha, in reply to
e.g. at the supermarket
but Thordon doesn't count, right?
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recordari, in reply to
I overheard myself using, but guessing that doesn't count either.
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I am going to use it as much as I possibly can, out in the wider community, from now on. Hey, it's the holidays soon, and I can be as profane as I want. Huzzah!
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given the amount of twatcockery that has pervaded 2010
So right. So very, very right.
Hooray for twatcock; may it fit as snugly into the annals of modern vernacular as a digit fits a fingerless glove.
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