CWC-isms, best and worst?

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Mogambo said:
Also, who says "you have driven me beyond the wall?" That conjures up some very Lovecraftian imagery, which I doubt Chris was trying to invoke. Heck, I doubt Chris would be able to read Lovecraft even if he knew who he was. Too many big (or dare I say, cyclopean?) words.
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Reminds me of a Game of Thrones reference.

Samwell Tarly reminds me of a more intelligent version of Chris. He got sent to the wall because he was useless, irritating, and fat.
 
Marvin said:
Heh, well, I think nappa is an anime character or something. Chris definitely makes some weird references.
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Heeeyyyy, helping run an anime student organization back in college has finally shown it's true purpose- completely useless trivia.

 
Jerkops is a really stupid thing to say. In my country, we don't just have police, we have Royal Police.
 
Crash into slumber might be the best just because it almost sounds like something an actual person would say. Honorable mention goes to true and honest because it sounds funny.

The worst one for me is comeuppance. Only Chris could be such a cretin as to take an actual word and get the definition of it as egregiously wrong as he did. That or Tomgirl/DIRTY CRAPPED BRIEFS, just because both of those things bring unpleasant images to mind.
 
On the far other end of the spectrum "Major Megantron Jerk" was fucking horrendous.
 
Montly Tugboat is one that would seem that the average person would use or something but no one would in actuality
 
JohnConstantine said:
Again, Chris didn't call anyone happy nappa, he said "You're laughing now". Happy nappa is what Jason Kendrick Howell thought he said.
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I'm not 100% sure of that. It really does sound like he's saying "you happy nappa" to me, and given Chris' history of uttering gibberish, I wouldn't be surprised. Then again, I may be biased because I originally read it transcribed that way. I am also pretty sure he says "I break you dead" too.

timtommy said:
Reminds me of a Game of Thrones reference.

Samwell Tarly reminds me of a more intelligent version of Chris. He got sent to the wall because he was useless, irritating, and fat.
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Nah, Chris is more like Hodor if he's like any character on that show. :-D

Henry Bemis said:
What's worse: the mishmash of Spanish and Greek, or the whole concept of being afraid of boyfriends?
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Meh, that doesn't bother me. There's plenty of precedent for it (astrolabe, for example, is a mixture of Greek and Arabic) and English tends to butcher Greek anyway (pronouncing the Greek letter kappa as a soft c sound, despite it not really existing in Greek, or the inconsistency with plural nouns). Its more the fact that it just sounds stupid. Both the word itself and the very concept.

Here's another one: "God and Jesus," or "GodJesus." The first one is just wrong according to most forms of Christian theology, which is what Chris claims to be, though his entire belief system seems to be more derived from cartoons telling him what Christians believe than actually going to church. If he was Jewish, Muslim, Atheist or a follower of another, unrelated religion, it wouldn't be so incongruous; Jews and Muslims (and technically several other related faiths like the Bahá'í, Druze, etc) don't believe Jesus was God, just a teacher or prophet, while Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus and the like don't really care because it doesn't enter into the equation But the whole GodJesus neologism? God, that just sounds stupid.
 
Comeuppance. I'll admit, I didn't know that that was a real word--I just thought that it spawned from Chris' weird, imaginary dictionary.

Needless to say, the word still makes me feel ill even knowing what the word actually means. Chris butchering a single word at his finest.
 
Biological Clock is such a funny one to think of. Its like Chris thinks his own body is a clock because he is so autistic.
 
I liked his one of his newest CWC-isms "Trolling Stupids". The idea of how it can be used as a noun and even as a verb just sounds so bad it's so good.
 
Mogambo said:
:biggrin:Meh, that doesn't bother me. There's plenty of precedent for it (astrolabe, for example, is a mixture of Greek and Arabic) and English tends to butcher Greek anyway (pronouncing the Greek letter kappa as a soft c sound, despite it not really existing in Greek, or the inconsistency with plural nouns). Its more the fact that it just sounds stupid. Both the word itself and the very concept.
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Astrolabe is a pure Greek word, labe being take (from Molon Labe fame). Other than that, you're spot on about English butchering Greek, such as χ, which sounds like an H, being Anglocised into Ch.
 
JohnConstantine said:
Astrolabe is a pure Greek word, labe being take (from Molon Labe fame). Other than that, you're spot on about English butchering Greek, such as χ, which sounds like an H, being Anglocised into Ch.
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From a more Christorian perspective, automobile, dysfunction, television and homosexual all have their roots in two languages (Latin and Greek).

I do object to your description of English butchering Greek. Firstly χ is not an exact equivalent to an h. It is much more voiced than that. It is a consonant we do not have, so it is approximated as ch in writing and k in speaking. It is the case for non-Greek words to, the most common pronunciations of loch and Munich are with a K sound at the end. Secondly, saying how words should/shouldn't be pronounced is a very proscriptive view of language. Thirdly, suggesting that words should be pronounced and used exactly like they were in their root language is a view even the most proscriptive linguists wouldn't adopt. If it were, how would a modern language differ from its ancient counterparts?
 
timtommy said:
I do object to your description of English butchering Greek. Firstly χ is not an exact equivalent to an h. It is much more voiced than that. It is a consonant we do not have, so it is approximated as ch in writing and k in speaking.
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The proper pronounciation of Hi (χ) in Greek is a drawn H from the back of the throat, like how you would pronounce Ahmed. Καλά Χριστούγεννα and Χρόνια Πολλά are not pronounced Kris and Kron, but Hhris and Hhron. Approximating it to Chs and Ks is inaccurate and wrong.

In response to the rest of your post, we can discuss it further in PMs if you wish, since it's irrelevant to the thread.
 
I was just thinking over Chris's latest CWC-ism, where he describes Rosechu as having, "C-CUP MILKING BREASTS WITH TITS AND ALL!!!" Do you think he might be mixing up "tits" with "teats", and thinks it refers specifically to the nipples instead of the breasts as a whole? It'd at least bring a modicum of logic to what he was trying to say. It certainly makes more sense than the mental image of Rosechu's boobs each having little boobs of their own.
 
I actually use TRUE and HONEST in conversation with other people who know about Chris, because I quite like it.

My least favourite is probably "comeuppance", just because I have absolutely no idea how he decided on it. Either that or his definition of "recycling", because of the rather unpleasant images it brings to mind...
 
Quote Me Now said:
I actually use TRUE and HONEST in conversation with other people who know about Chris, because I quite like it.

My least favourite is probably "comeuppance", just because I have absolutely no idea how he decided on it. Either that or his definition of "recycling", because of the rather unpleasant images it brings to mind...
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CWC probably thought "comeuppance = cum"
 
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