# The official language thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-topic\ **Created:** [April 3, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524 "2018-04-03T11:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/503 "2018-05-24T21:16:55Z")
Yes. And maybe a “food you shouldn’t try at all” thread. And a whole food forum subsection. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/504 "2018-05-24T21:18:07Z")
YES! Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/506 "2018-05-24T21:23:16Z")
I predict that next on the ‘What are you listening to’ thread will be the disturbing sounds my stomach makes when it desires food. ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/507 "2018-05-24T21:23:21Z")
I NEVER manage to see a post before the author deletes it. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/508 "2018-05-24T21:23:59Z")
> [@Ema](#): > > And a whole food forum subsection. I hereby christen it “Pood forn.” #backontopic ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/509 "2018-05-24T21:24:13Z")
I saw it! It was _scandalous_. Not really. I don’t know why he deleted it… ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/510 "2018-05-24T21:24:51Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > > [@Ema](#): > > > > And a whole food forum subsection. > > I hereby christen it “Pood forn.” #backontopic That’s almost a decent Spoonerism. ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/511 "2018-05-24T21:25:12Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I predict that next on the ‘What are you listening to’ thread will be the disturbing sounds my stomach makes when it desires food. I was just lurking in these days cause I’m busy, but… I had the strong temptation to open a “what are you smelling” thread. You know, for completion’s sake ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/512 "2018-05-24T21:27:14Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > > [@Ema](#): > > > > And a whole food forum subsection. > > I hereby christen it “Pood forn.” #backontopic Wow. That’s a spoonerism! A new word which I have just learnt in the ItalianDub subsection of the forum, and I was fearing I wouldn’t have never the chance to use it!! ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/513 "2018-05-24T21:28:45Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > That’s almost a decent Spoonerism And I’ve never met it in my life before, now I meet it twice in minutes. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/514 "2018-05-24T21:29:53Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > Not really. I don’t know why he deleted it… ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/f/f3c0b28e775350cfdab01c54fb862fa99aed82ab.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/515 "2018-05-24T21:45:31Z")
> [@Ema](#): > > Wow. That’s a spoonerism! Well, I think technically it’s only a Spoonerism if it means something when reversed. Though I suppose with a stretch of the imagination… ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/516 "2018-05-24T21:49:28Z")
> **[Pood](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pood)** > > Pood (Russian: пуд, tr. pud, IPA: \[put\]), is a unit of mass equal to 40 funt (фунт, Russian pound). Plural: pudi or pudy. Since 1899 It is approximately set to 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds). It was used in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Pood was first mentioned in a number of 12th-century documents. Unlike funt, which came at least in the 14th century from Middle High German: phunt, Old East Slavic: пудъ pud (the earlier unattested form \*пѫдъ pǫdŭ) is a much older borrowing from Old Norse: pu To... [https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/forn](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/forn) ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/517 "2018-05-24T22:07:49Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > (post withdrawn by author, will be automatically deleted in 24 hours unless flagged) so you should flag it to avoid it from being deleted or what? ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/518 "2018-05-24T22:12:56Z")
What? Why? ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/519 "2018-05-24T22:18:39Z")
I mean, I simply don’t get why Discourse always tags “unless flagged” to that? As if you could save the message from deletion by flagging it? Or enough users flagging it? Not your message in particular by the way. Just in general. I’d say: instant post, instant delete. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/520 "2018-05-24T23:41:40Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I predict that next on the ‘What are you listening to’ thread will be the disturbing sounds my stomach makes when it desires food. Does it sound anything like this? > [@What are you listening to right now?](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/2718/25): > > [@Sushi](#): > > I mean, I simply don’t get why Discourse always tags “unless flagged” to that? As if you could save the message from deletion by flagging it? Or enough users flagging it? I guess it is there so users can´t make incriminating evidence disappear. > [@Ema](#): > > spoonerism! I wonder who mentioned that word before on the forum…🤔 > [@Truberbrook - Adventure game](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/truberbrook-adventure-game/2054/32): > > Do you like spoonerisms CasesOfPete? (and are you gonna tell me that´s not a real spoonerism?) ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/521 "2018-05-25T04:48:27Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > I guess it is there so users can´t make incriminating evidence disappear. Yeah, it’s probably only the mods that can see the flagged post, after it has been deleted. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/522 "2018-05-25T05:42:32Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#): > > > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > > > I guess it is there so users can´t make incriminating evidence disappear. > > Yeah, it’s probably only the mods that can see the flagged post, after it has been deleted. Make sense. Luckily we never post incriminating stuff here. removes three-penised smurfs ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/523 "2018-05-25T06:07:35Z")
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