Apparently the latest trend sweeping classrooms (schools, colleges, universities) is "Rogeting," named after the famous brand of thesaurus.
Students are apparently wisening up to their teachers / examiners detecting plagiarism and running internet searches to find the uncited author, so instead of avoiding plagiarising, they've taken to attempting to disguise the lifts with the over-use of thesuari.
Hence "left behind" becomes "sinister buttocks", "stay ahead of the competition" becomes "tarry fore of the conflict", and "more powerful personalised services" becomes the equally incomprehensible "Herculean personalised liturgies."
Needless to say, many commenters on the Guardian article saw the opportunity to have some fun:
"I've got a sinister buttock. And a dexter one, too." (GabyCon regulars in particular will know all about Sinister and Dexter...)
"I once saw them at Glastonbury. They opened for Loose Movement." (Ouch!)
"I might have to write an app that replaces words with antonyms rather than synonyms." (Now there's an evil genius!)
"It's all fun and games until you lose your thesaurus and can't find the words to express your displeasure." (Oh dear...)
"A few of us were rogeting in the canteen in the glare of a couple of teachers...but we had to stop because we thought thesaurus..." (groan!)
Comments
Ant-onyms?
would you have to do Dec-onyms as well?
Angharad
Only if there was an easy way
Only if there was an easy way of remembering which was which...
Could be worse.
Could be worse, they could be going around with there pants half-way down there butt in school. I swear that is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen,ain't nobody want to see there underwear. I guess they don't believe that sagging started in the prison's for the gay men inmates to show other prisoners they are up for sex in the butt.
I've heard that before...
...but I question the truth of it. The whole story about the origin of wearing one's pants way down just screams "urban myth", precisely the sort of thing parents would make up to dissuade their kids from adopting the "gangsta" look.
EDIT: It appears I'm correct. Snopes is pretty reliable when it comes to things like this: http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel
I've never heard anyone
I've never heard anyone (including people that spent time in prison) calling homosexual behaviour.
I _have_ been told that it's from prison, but it's simpler than that. It's that you get the clothing that's there, and if it's too large, that's still what you have to wear. You don't exactly get belts.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.