Showing posts with label chrisisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chrisisms. Show all posts

Thursday, August 19, 2010

O.M.G.

I was googling for fun, and I decided to google "chrisism" to see if it came up with anything. I actually assumed it wouldn't come up with anything, because I thought I had coined the term, but what I thought to be an original word actually had quite a few hits.

My definition of "chrisism" is any phrase that I feel no one but my Chris would say, ever...ever...because half the stuff he says is just so wonderfully weird, no one but him would think to say it. Language is super fun to play with, and he gets that. Often they are deliberate, but I swear just as often they are so weird I wonder whether he just talks without thinking :)

To my surprise, the very first result was from Urban Dictionary, and the definition is as follows: "A verbal thought or question spewed forth without any thought given to it."

So how's that for evidence for the Jungian collective conscience theory? Is that enough proof?


And speak of the devil:

Chris has been playing this game called "Shores of Hazeron" and he made what I can only describe as the most horrifying creature you would ever want to play. It has a horse's torso, human legs, human arms, a dragon's tail, and two heads. Oh, also butterfly wings. He showed me just how he created this monster, and we played around with the program for a while, all the while making this thing more grotesque and comical. It eventually had huge feet and huge arms, which when set in motion looked hysterically funny. Chris was actually to the point of tears he was laughing so hard. I asked him why he had made the feet and hands so large, and he said "It's so he can feet while he walks!"

Also, his creature has the fighting power of "psychic radiation," where he'll attack you with, you guessed it, psychic radiation, and if you get hit with this psychic radiation you will eventually die of brain cancer. This also had Chris in tears :)

Sunday, July 11, 2010

There are so many different kinds of trees

Last night while Chris and I were walking to The Abbey, the conversation turned to trees.

Verbing a noun: "They birched up from the ground, and we decided to call them trees."

My life is heaven.

Monday, June 7, 2010

It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISISM

Verbing an adjective: "That kid is very runny." (not as in his nose is runny, but that he runs a lot)



(image: hyperbolyandahalf.com)

Monday, May 24, 2010

Chrisisms

Since Chris always seems to be making me laugh/feel delight because of his sayings, I'm dubbing his sayings "chrisisms"

Latest and greatest: Clearly a lack of sleep was involved, and possibly a lack of wearing glasses, but not lacking his sense of humour. This is a Facebook comment made about some sushi he and I made (can you guess which side is mine? it's the side with most of the white ones).

Friend: That looks really good. Is that fish eggs??

Chris: Heh, I wish. Any idea where to get some? (on my part), but it'll be a day or so before it's posted.

I'm not even sure what to do with this one! It's two, maybe even three sentences that just decided to hang out way too close together, and even after they realised they were too close, they just decided to go with it and morphed into that beautiful gem :)

I hope everyone knows that these "chrisisms" are not meant to be judgmental, I'm actually quite delighted with Chris' language use and this is only an observe and report kind of deal. Recordings for posterity, I suppose, because sometimes I tend to forget things so if I don't save them now they might be lost to me.

Anyway, I had a long day at work so that's all for now :)

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

I love lamp

Here are two more of Chris' lovely sayings:

Causifying: "We tend to Englishify things"
Adjectiving a verb: "He walkingly went there" - This is my personal favourite so far

Sunday, April 11, 2010

LOUD NOISES

My boyfriend makes the most interesting linguistic choices. I think I will start chronicling them as they come along before I forget them. I'm really quite lucky, the stuff he says is often delightful:

Verbing: "She likes to lawnmow"
Backforming: "So it's not badminton, it's goodminton!"
Pluralizing non-count nouns: "We can use lots of different rices."

Wow when I started this post there were at least five things I wanted to write down, but I've forgotten some clearly. Fear not, I will be back.