I think I just invented a word.
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Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
But I really hate the concept. I've got this one co-worker where I must keep very close track of what he has heard before, whether it is something relating to me, the news, the working situation or anything: Immediately, when he hears something he has heard before, he cuts me off with a "You told that already!" It is really bothersome when I all the time have to say: "Yes, but Jack [or Jill or whoever] hasn't heard it". I try to remember when he is present to start out with "You have heard this before, but to let Jack hear it as well...". Sometimes when I forget that my co-worker has heard it earlier, and cuts me off, Jack (or whoever I am talking to) steps in and says "But I haven't heard it!" So even though the term "yestersay" is not used, the same idea is stated in different words. And it is very irritating. You must accept to hear something again. You don't have a moral claim to hear brand new things always, all the time. Actually, some of the best storytellers I know, tell the same story again and again, with a little different twist every time, a different emphasis, maybe even some small change in the story. I enjoy it. I say that if a movie isn't worth watching twice, it isn't worth your time to watch it once. If a book isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading in the first place. Knowing how a piece of music ends shouldn't take away the pleasure of hearing it again. If you don't want to hear a story again, you should have walked away the first time. So please restrict you use of "That's just so yestersay!" to situations where an endless repetition is really annoying. Do not make it into a competition to be the first one to recognize what someone is saying so you can yell "Yestersay!" (Like the way too many people are today when you strart a sentence with "I wonder..." or "I'd like to know...": Before you have completed stating what you wander about or would like to know, six smartphones are up on the table, its owners eagerly waiting for the keywords the can google to win the race to be The Winner who can read out loud The Answer. It stresses me immensely. To keep a normal, oldstyle conversation going I try to avoid expressing any uncertainty or wondering in my talking; I know that it could lead to most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones, and it would be very unpolite to continue talking with the rest while they try to "help" me to the answer...)
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Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But I really hate the concept. I've got this one co-worker where I must keep very close track of what he has heard before, whether it is something relating to me, the news, the working situation or anything: Immediately, when he hears something he has heard before, he cuts me off with a "You told that already!" It is really bothersome when I all the time have to say: "Yes, but Jack [or Jill or whoever] hasn't heard it". I try to remember when he is present to start out with "You have heard this before, but to let Jack hear it as well...". Sometimes when I forget that my co-worker has heard it earlier, and cuts me off, Jack (or whoever I am talking to) steps in and says "But I haven't heard it!" So even though the term "yestersay" is not used, the same idea is stated in different words. And it is very irritating. You must accept to hear something again. You don't have a moral claim to hear brand new things always, all the time. Actually, some of the best storytellers I know, tell the same story again and again, with a little different twist every time, a different emphasis, maybe even some small change in the story. I enjoy it. I say that if a movie isn't worth watching twice, it isn't worth your time to watch it once. If a book isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading in the first place. Knowing how a piece of music ends shouldn't take away the pleasure of hearing it again. If you don't want to hear a story again, you should have walked away the first time. So please restrict you use of "That's just so yestersay!" to situations where an endless repetition is really annoying. Do not make it into a competition to be the first one to recognize what someone is saying so you can yell "Yestersay!" (Like the way too many people are today when you strart a sentence with "I wonder..." or "I'd like to know...": Before you have completed stating what you wander about or would like to know, six smartphones are up on the table, its owners eagerly waiting for the keywords the can google to win the race to be The Winner who can read out loud The Answer. It stresses me immensely. To keep a normal, oldstyle conversation going I try to avoid expressing any uncertainty or wondering in my talking; I know that it could lead to most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones, and it would be very unpolite to continue talking with the rest while they try to "help" me to the answer...)
Member 7989122 wrote:
most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones
There once was a time when I used to laugh about that sort of behavior, long before smartphones even existed. I watched a table full of nerds play Dungeons and Dragons. The game master would say a single sentence and all players would grab one of the books in high stacks next to their chairs, vigorously search for the right page and then interpret some rules in a different way and oppose whatever the game master just said. I bet they all later became lawyers.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You mean, the one with the fellow submarine ?
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But I really hate the concept. I've got this one co-worker where I must keep very close track of what he has heard before, whether it is something relating to me, the news, the working situation or anything: Immediately, when he hears something he has heard before, he cuts me off with a "You told that already!" It is really bothersome when I all the time have to say: "Yes, but Jack [or Jill or whoever] hasn't heard it". I try to remember when he is present to start out with "You have heard this before, but to let Jack hear it as well...". Sometimes when I forget that my co-worker has heard it earlier, and cuts me off, Jack (or whoever I am talking to) steps in and says "But I haven't heard it!" So even though the term "yestersay" is not used, the same idea is stated in different words. And it is very irritating. You must accept to hear something again. You don't have a moral claim to hear brand new things always, all the time. Actually, some of the best storytellers I know, tell the same story again and again, with a little different twist every time, a different emphasis, maybe even some small change in the story. I enjoy it. I say that if a movie isn't worth watching twice, it isn't worth your time to watch it once. If a book isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading in the first place. Knowing how a piece of music ends shouldn't take away the pleasure of hearing it again. If you don't want to hear a story again, you should have walked away the first time. So please restrict you use of "That's just so yestersay!" to situations where an endless repetition is really annoying. Do not make it into a competition to be the first one to recognize what someone is saying so you can yell "Yestersay!" (Like the way too many people are today when you strart a sentence with "I wonder..." or "I'd like to know...": Before you have completed stating what you wander about or would like to know, six smartphones are up on the table, its owners eagerly waiting for the keywords the can google to win the race to be The Winner who can read out loud The Answer. It stresses me immensely. To keep a normal, oldstyle conversation going I try to avoid expressing any uncertainty or wondering in my talking; I know that it could lead to most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones, and it would be very unpolite to continue talking with the rest while they try to "help" me to the answer...)
- That's yestersay - No, that's callmunicate !
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Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
Made a song for you, are you happy now ?
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Yestersay when I was wrong The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish FPS game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built, alas, on weak and shifting operating systems I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years ran away
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Made a song for you, are you happy now ?
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Yestersay when I was wrong The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish FPS game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built, alas, on weak and shifting operating systems I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years ran away
Ok, now let me sing it... I also found yet another use for the word, when somebody sings a different song than before. 'Did you not yestersay something else?'
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
A favorite word among managers. "Didn't I yestersay to do that?!?!?!" ;)
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Nah - I tried for Ungrade[^] when Windows 10 came out! :laugh:
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Ok, now let me sing it... I also found yet another use for the word, when somebody sings a different song than before. 'Did you not yestersay something else?'
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But you did not yestersay it, right?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Do you really want me to start singing here? Edit: Are you not from Rome? Then you should know how that worked out in the past[^]!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But you did not yestersay it, right?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Member 7989122 wrote:
most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones
There once was a time when I used to laugh about that sort of behavior, long before smartphones even existed. I watched a table full of nerds play Dungeons and Dragons. The game master would say a single sentence and all players would grab one of the books in high stacks next to their chairs, vigorously search for the right page and then interpret some rules in a different way and oppose whatever the game master just said. I bet they all later became lawyers.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
CodeWraith wrote:
I bet they all later became lawyers.
I can reveal what happened to them - they all became senior developers. I see this a lot with many of the senior the devs I have worked with, I wonder if the issue is that they have never worked in jobs where they have to communicate through speech. They seem unable to participate in what polite society would call small talk and have absolutely no interest in anything that does not immediately benefit them - which may be a consequence of the age of the mobile device constantly keeping them away from boredom. Codeproject fortunately seems to attract those devs who have the ability to talk beyond grunts and every other word being feck this and feck that.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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CodeWraith wrote:
Now, how do I get it into a dictionary?
First turn it into a meme. Then get it on social media. Once it hits one million shares, then they will put it in the dictionary. Just like all the other crap they put in.
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CodeWraith wrote:
I bet they all later became lawyers.
I can reveal what happened to them - they all became senior developers. I see this a lot with many of the senior the devs I have worked with, I wonder if the issue is that they have never worked in jobs where they have to communicate through speech. They seem unable to participate in what polite society would call small talk and have absolutely no interest in anything that does not immediately benefit them - which may be a consequence of the age of the mobile device constantly keeping them away from boredom. Codeproject fortunately seems to attract those devs who have the ability to talk beyond grunts and every other word being feck this and feck that.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
I’ve had similar issues with devs I lead. I keep pressing on and ignore their actions. I feel that the subject on which I am speaking is more important than whatever they are looking up. I intentionally keep going so they learn to listen than look up things on the internet. If they have questions during the meeting I’ll answer them. If they have questions after the meeting I’ll ask what the remember from the meeting. I generally catch them off guard and their behavior quickly stops. It’s similar to a lecture style of conversation where students not paying attention get left behind. It’s worked well so far! When phone use gets too bad I ask them to put their phones away or step out of the meeting if they need to use them. I haven’t had to call many people out for this, it generally takes only one. As for the annoyance of someone repeatedly telling me I said something earlier, I haven’t experienced that. But, might I suggest that you pull them aside and discuss it with them in private? I _have_ had to do that before and the behavior and its annoyance is generally unnoticed by them. Good luck!
