Words & Phrases DSP Has Invented or Misuses - DSP'isms that make you say "HUUUHN?!?"

re: Phil's repeated misuse of penultimate, I guess he was searching for a word: some kind of superlative. A viewer tipped, telling him to learn the definition of penultimate so he'd stop using it incorrectly. It was during a Morrowind stream so of course Phil whipped out his phone to search + eat some clock.

Phil learned it means "next to last" or "second from last" and even took a cue from chat and retconned all previous misuses as a word that he made up: penne-ultimate.

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Quintesential?
Quikdesential?
Quitessential?

It's pronounced "penultimate", asshole. Is he stupid on purpose or really just using big words to sound smart? Everyone knows what quintessential means, basically the complete opposite of what he thinks it means (if this is what he said, he talked really fast to cover up his gin-soaked stupidity).
 
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Is he stupid on purpose or really just using big words to sound smart?
Phil is, and always has been, the kind of guy who reads a dictionary to sound more photosynthesis.

When he's called out for being a morahn and using words incorrectly, he moves the goalposts so that what he said was taken in the prahper khantext.
 
Several times I've played clips people posted of Phil where I didn't notice I had my sound off and confusedly thought, 'Why did someone post a clip of Phil sitting still, not moving a muscle, with his mouth hanging slightly open?' and then I turn the volume up and am startled to learn that Phil is actually speaking at a regular volume and pace without using any of his face muscles whatsoever.

It's another one of those really off-putting things Phil does that once you notice you can't unnotice. Like, try speaking without working your jaw or using your cheeks and lips to form sounds, just using your vocal cords and tongue to form sounds, and then think about what a lazy slob you would have to be to routinely speak like that in your job as a public personality on the internet.

It just occurred to me why I find it so off-putting. He looks like a ventriloquist speaking through his own mouth as if he were the puppet when he does it.


But yeah, he also does just start skipping consonants entirely where a phrase like 'Get the fuck out of here' is instead spoken by Phil as 'Getha FU ow ophere'.

You fuck. I can't stop seeing it now.

As well I have a new one for the dictionary: Buffonorus. Referring to the stupid actions of the AI in MW2 remastered campaign. That one had an effect on me, where I legitimately thought I might be retarded and had to go and look it up. If you'll excuse me, I need to read something and hope that helps repairs the brain cells that one helped me lose.
 
For a man who has professed to believing in karma several times, and mentioning it in respect to his detractors, he doesn't understand it whatsoever. Watching the Tevin video about his most recent Ask the King, he was asked again about karma and if he believes in it. He says that "MAYBE" people disliking him are karma for things like making racist jokes. When talking about his detractors? "Where's karma for those motherfuckers? Where's karma to bite them in the ass?"

Mistaking the concept of karma for consequences aside, if you believe so strongly in a concept why would you not make the most basic of cursory looks into it? Why would you not read the Wikipedia summary?

To quote a man smarter than DSP, "Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos" - Homer Simpson.

Or he blames others for teaching him how to use a word incorrectly, which is what he did with the whole "rainy day fund" thing.

His attempt to pass the buck was so dumb. It's not his fault, the nuns in second grade taught him wrong when they studied in school dood!

What fucking school studies "rainy day fund"? Is this how DSP ended up valedictorian?
 
What fucking school studies "rainy day fund"? Is this how DSP ended up valedictorian?
"Rainy day fund" or "save your pennies for a rainy day" is a fairly common English euphemism. It's possible it was in some book the class was reading. It's possible someone asked the nun what that mean. It's not possible the nun told the class to save their money so if they planned on going to the beach and it rained they could use their life savings to go bowling instead.
 
"Rainy day fund" or "save your pennies for a rainy day" is a fairly common English euphemism. It's possible it was in some book the class was reading. It's possible someone asked the nun what that mean. It's not possible the nun told the class to save their money so if they planned on going to the beach and it rained they could use their life savings to go bowling instead.

I'd remembered DSP talking about him "studying" the phrase in school, as in specifically studying the phrase and not a book, so I went to double check on pigpiggo.

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It's even worse than I remember. Not only does he say he learned it in High School (and specifically said he "studied the definition of it in school" which if there's any truth to any part of this probably means it was used in a book in English class and he assumed what it meant and went on with life), but his first desperate attempt to explain away his mistake is to claim "maybe it's a different thing today". Yeah DSP you're right, the idiom has done a complete 180 in meaning in 5 years since you learned what it means.
 
It is a similar euphemism to "make hay while the sun shines".

Sun=good prosperous times
Rain=bad economically hard times

Make money (hay) while it's available (the sun shines).

Save your money for when you are on hard times (a rainy day).

It also reminds me of Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper. In Phil's mind, the ants should have given charitable contributions to the grasshopper for providing hours of free entertainment.
 
I think the idea of him "studying the phrase" is probably one of the funniest things I've ever imagined. Sixteen year old Phil hunched over a book, reading the phrase "Rainy day fund" over and over and trying to decipher it like the fucking Da Vinci code.
It's a fund. So it's money...

Rainy day... a day, obviously not night. And it's rainy. There's weather involved...

So a day with bad weather and money is involved...

Save your money until there is bad weather? Yeah, that's got to be it!
 
I think the idea of him "studying the phrase" is probably one of the funniest things I've ever imagined. Sixteen year old Phil hunched over a book, reading the phrase "Rainy day fund" over and over and trying to decipher it like the fucking Da Vinci code.

Yeah, my first thought was literally nuns running a special ed class, teaching the kids idioms they may come across in the real world. First month was studying "rainy day fund," next up on the curriculum is "beat around the bush."
 
Phil forgets anything he learned and applies his own interpretation & narrative not even a day after he learned it, the destiny of narcissism. That's why he's basically wrong about anything, except he repeats opinions of others with huge delay, without understanding their points. I know he thinks he's up to date with the kids and everyone cares about his opinions, but everything coming to mind is "Take your medicine grandpa".
 
“BEHIND DA SCENES”

Phil is a serial abuser of that phrase, and I can’t even begin to tell you how much it grinds my gears.


Sometimes he says it 3-4 times within 10-15 minutes, usually meaning “After the stream is over” or “when I’m not ‘working’”.


The more I’ve watched this guy, the more I’ve come to the conclusion that “behind the scenes” isn’t just Phil misunderstanding the term.

It’s a piece of quintessential pigroach psychology.

Phil, in his own estimation, isn’t just a regular slob. He’s a special person, a mover and a shaker. He doesn’t do things “off camera”. No. He does things “behind the scenes!”
 
“BEHIND DA SCENES”

Phil is a serial abuser of that phrase, and I can’t even begin to tell you how much it grinds my gears.


Sometimes he says it 3-4 times within 10-15 minutes, usually meaning “After the stream is over” or “when I’m not ‘working’”.


The more I’ve watched this guy, the more I’ve come to the conclusion that “behind the scenes” isn’t just Phil misunderstanding the term.

It’s a piece of quintessential pigroach psychology.

Phil, in his own estimation, isn’t just a regular slob. He’s a special person, a mover and a shaker. He doesn’t do things “off camera”. No. He does things “behind the scenes!”
Phil has made his boring life a fuckin' movie so behind the scenes somewhat makes more sense to me. He's the main star and he is so important that he can offer you hindsight on scenes of his time on camera but the behind the scenes stuff? Well hehe, he knows something you don't so he cant say because that's really important unless you pay him extra for the directors cut.
 
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