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What's a word you've spent a long time not using right? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just recently I was in a conversation with a number of UK mainlanders and we had a debate over what "tories" meant, apparently disproportionately ordinarily it refers to a political party and it's not usual to use it as short for "territories" as I've used it (according to how the debate ended, it was half and half between them). And once again I'm reminded of how people feel to look back at their usage of a word/phrase over the years and cringe.

More tragically, me and a friend were embarrassed once upon realizing everyone was confusing "encephalitis" with "hydrocephalus" when talking to someone about their kid with hydrocephalus. Awkward because encephalitis is caused by HIV.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Turns out pseudo is not spelled like sudo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Of course, sudo means "superuser do"

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Substitute user do" actually. You don't have to be superuser

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That may be the current interpretation but not the original

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What got me was the Pokemon sudowoodo and having heard the word pseudo in some kind of media and figuring out what it meant but not how it was spelled. It's name is probably a nod to superuser do, but that's not how I first encountered it as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sudowoodo males sense if the word is meant to be psuedo. Pseudo wood o, Like fake tree. I always thought it was a pretty clever name. I dont know how it works in relation to superuser do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pokemon names nearly always deviate from the spellings of their constituent root words in at least one superficial way.

There are a couple odd exceptions like Electrode and Talonflame, of course. And even more now with paradox mons, but those are, uh, a special case.

My point being, I am confident the "sudo" in "Sudowoodo" is not a nod to sudo at all, it's just a coincidental side effect of corrupting "pseudo". As they do.

I suppose if one really wanted to know, one could just ask Nob Ogasawara himself, the one who named Sudowoodo. He's on Twitter...