Words and phrases coined by Jorie
Mar. 7th, 2009 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvin1. Nt, nts
An nt is a double-height 1x2 Lego Duplo brick. As I mentioned earlier, I suspect these may exist because a single-height 1x2 brick, as regular Lego sets have, would still be small enough even at Duplo scale to be a choking hazard. These pieces are a bit unusual and evidently Jorie decided they were unusual enough to have a name. Nt is a very specific technical term and she uses it completely consistently. "Let's go pick some nts" is an invitation to find the double-height 1x2 pieces in the tub of Duplo bricks.
She actually coined this word a few months ago. More recently she started calling these pieces "chimneys", but she also uses the self-coined term as well. She also turns it around; there's an illustration in Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever of a house with a chimney topped with two cylindrical projections, and she likes to point to it and say "it's a nt."
2. Double Pad
This one is far stranger. A while ago she had occasion to see the striking DVD cover of a very-not-for-children Japanese movie whose title translates to Devil's Tag (which I haven't seen, and which I can't find on IMDB for some reason, but which apparently disappointed fans of the associated manga). Anyway, the cover showed a creepy grinning cartoonish mask with glowing red eyes and a huge toothy mouth, which is apparently worn by some sort of deadly secret police agents in the movie.
Jorie is not yet fearful of anything conventionally scary and simply took this as a depiction of a friendly creature of legend, whose name she misheard as "the Double Pad". She makes up little stories about the adventures of the Double Pad. She likes to recite long passages from books with different things substituted for the characters' names, and, while usually all the characters in her ad-hoc mashups become Jorie, sometimes they're the Double Pad instead.
More recently, she has decided that the King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy (which she no longer calls "Real Ball") is the Double Pad, which I guess is an improvement.
An nt is a double-height 1x2 Lego Duplo brick. As I mentioned earlier, I suspect these may exist because a single-height 1x2 brick, as regular Lego sets have, would still be small enough even at Duplo scale to be a choking hazard. These pieces are a bit unusual and evidently Jorie decided they were unusual enough to have a name. Nt is a very specific technical term and she uses it completely consistently. "Let's go pick some nts" is an invitation to find the double-height 1x2 pieces in the tub of Duplo bricks.
She actually coined this word a few months ago. More recently she started calling these pieces "chimneys", but she also uses the self-coined term as well. She also turns it around; there's an illustration in Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever of a house with a chimney topped with two cylindrical projections, and she likes to point to it and say "it's a nt."
2. Double Pad
This one is far stranger. A while ago she had occasion to see the striking DVD cover of a very-not-for-children Japanese movie whose title translates to Devil's Tag (which I haven't seen, and which I can't find on IMDB for some reason, but which apparently disappointed fans of the associated manga). Anyway, the cover showed a creepy grinning cartoonish mask with glowing red eyes and a huge toothy mouth, which is apparently worn by some sort of deadly secret police agents in the movie.
Jorie is not yet fearful of anything conventionally scary and simply took this as a depiction of a friendly creature of legend, whose name she misheard as "the Double Pad". She makes up little stories about the adventures of the Double Pad. She likes to recite long passages from books with different things substituted for the characters' names, and, while usually all the characters in her ad-hoc mashups become Jorie, sometimes they're the Double Pad instead.
More recently, she has decided that the King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy (which she no longer calls "Real Ball") is the Double Pad, which I guess is an improvement.