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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOMEDricot: A freasy future for GNOMEPosted Aug 11, 2012 8:48 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by nix Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME
btw, I'm aware that Lionel is not a native English speaker, but, please please take 'freasy' and drop it into a very deep hole. It's got worse phonotactics than any other free software coinage I've heard since 'lignux' or possibly even the original 'freax' name for Linux. 'freasy', to me, is extremely reminiscent mostly of 'greasy' and 'queasy'.
(I'm aware that a proper understanding of the phonotactic value of new words is incredibly hard for non-native speakers to grasp: heck, expensive native-speaking 'branding consultants' seem to have enough trouble with it given the appalling feel of many of the words they come up with... but 'freasy' definitely is waay over there on the bad side.)
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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 11, 2012 13:37 UTC (Sat) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]
He didn't create the word. The urban dictionary primarily says:
"A combination of the words free + easy.
Usually referring to a woman that seems like an easy target for a one night stand while being free of any negative attributes such as (but not limited to) being fat, ugly/unattractive, diseased, infected, completely intoxicated, etc..."
but also as a third option gives you:
"Freasy, a combination of fried and greasy. Originated in rural Nebraska near Alvo."
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 11, 2012 14:07 UTC (Sat) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]
Urban Dictionary is just about the worst possible reference for anything, though.
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 11, 2012 20:52 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
Why would that be?
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 12, 2012 8:52 UTC (Sun) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]
It's like a wiki that hasn't realised that you're supposed to revert vandalism rather than giggle at it.
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 13, 2012 12:40 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
But if your intention is to find out ways in which people might interpret this phrase, then that's exactly what you want.
(FWIW I've found urban dictionary to be honestly useful when trying to figure out what people mean when they use slang I've not heard of. Wikipedia - not so much)
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 13, 2012 13:02 UTC (Mon) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]
Or ways in which somebody who was drunk in front of their computer once thought it might be funny to convince people that a phrase might be interpreted.
(Honestly, a bunch of the time it just doesn't bear much resemblance to any idiolect I've ever encountered, and more often than not seems to be obsessed with sex acts and/or misogynist slurs. I'm all for descriptive linguistics, but there are limits.)
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 13, 2012 13:22 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Pasting nonsense definitions to urban dictionary that were made up on the spot is kind of a sport.
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