A mazer is a drinking vessel, NOT a meadmaker

[kuri]

You're absolutely right. We shouldn't twist the word "mazer" into a new meaning. Rather, we should create a whole new word for our purposes. From scratch, as it were. With no history. I therefor propose the following completely new as of this moment word for indicating a mead maker: mazer.

I know some of you will object to its obvious similarity to extant vocabulary, though those of you who are in this category will have clearly missed the intent, as well as the intended etymology. This word shares a root with "amaze", because our production can be 'mazing. Any similarities with other vocabulary is no more than inescapable syncretism (extended to roots, but then why should inflectional forms be special?).

 

[kudapucat]

I fart in your general direction.

 

[joemirando]

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt...
of Elderberries!

 

[kudapucat]

Thanks Joe, it was either this, or invoke Godwin's law.

 

[joemirando]

sometimes I'd druther be the vessel

Reminds me of what my grandfather used to say:
Sometimes you're the windshield.
Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[joemirando]

So let's cut to the chase here...
What DO you call a maker of mead?... besides obsessed, I mean. <grin>

 

[EJM3]

Obsessive Compulsive??

I know that before I was kind of like "yeah that's ok, but I don't know how to ferment things like this to make them better", and now i'm more like "I bet that would taste interesting if I threw it in the fermentor, and that, and that, and that..." Maybe call it OCMMD, "Obsessive Compulsive Mead Making Disorder".

Hrm, then again there is something like: modernedaghonigweinbrouwerijmeister ?? (Being in a relationship with a Dutchman I am somewhat predisposed to smash and mangle. Doug knows what I mean!)

The Japanese version can get a little more difficult though: 現代の蜂蜜ワインの醸造マスター

And lastly is this one: אדון דבש

 

[kuri]

So let's cut to the chase here...
What DO you call a maker of mead?... besides obsessed, I mean. <grin>

We could take a vote:
meader
meadster
mead maker
meadier
meadist
meddler
mazer filler
honey winer
hachimitsuhakkoumeijin (蜂蜜発酵名人)
aguamielisto/aguamielista
cool
mazer, son/daughter of hamster, surrounded by an air of farts and elderberries

 

[joemirando]

We could take a vote:
meader
meadster
mead maker
meadier
meadist
meddler
mazer filler
honey winer
hachimitsuhakkoumeijin (蜂蜜発酵名人)
aguamielisto/aguamielista
cool
mazer, son/daughter of hamster, surrounded by an air of farts and elderberries

You forgot "empty-headed animal food trough wiper". <grin>

 

[kuri]

You forgot "empty-headed animal food trough wiper". <grin>

of other people's bottoms?

 

[joemirando]

of other people's bottoms?

... With their silly knees bent, prancing about advancing behavior.
Yeah, I've watched that movie far too many times.

 

[curgoth]

As my various pro-editor friends keep telling me: language is descriptive, not proscriptive. If enough people keep using a word one way long enough, that's language. "Literal" used to refer to "written down". Now it's "actually happened" transitioning to "figuratively with emphasis".

 

[joemirando]

Well irregardless, I'm betting the use of 'mazer' will inkribitz as mead becomes more, like, gynormous.
(Oh gawd, I feel like I need to shower! )

 

[GntlKnigt1]

EJM3, I actually followed that one. LOL

 

[kuri]

Well irregardless, I'm betting the use of 'mazer' will inkribitz as mead becomes more, like, gynormous.)

i.e. "mazer" will become cromulent as a synonym for meadist.

 

[kudapucat]

Meadher or meader (but the d is a thorn)

Mazer will only become language to be synonymous if enough ppl use it descriptively.
If we linguistic prescriptivists band together, and dissuade the masses from using it incorrectly, the language will not evolve to accept it.

 

[kudapucat]

That was not so eloquent as I'd have liked, but I'm onto my second cyser.

 

[mannye]

I'm with you. I'm annoyed when people say things like "in second place" when we all know it's "secondly." Even things like kids calling N.O.S. "Nos" instead of saying the initials bothers the hell out of me. Anyone who put nitrous on a car in the 1980s will understand why that is unacceptable.

I say we do some research and try to find out what was used back when mead was more popular.


Sent from my galafreyan transdimensional communicator 100 years from now.
U g

 

[kudapucat]

Now you're sounding like a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism... ;-)

 

[mannye]

I was told I was a member of the Foundation for Undermining Creative Knowledge once.