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[Gwydion]

I'm sure you have   it sounds familiar.
But you are mistaking me - I am not defending its purity or its honour, I simply want to make new words prove their worth before I bother incorporating them into my vocabulary.

I can see no use for any 'aboo' myself but I have no objection to others so doing as long as they don't mind me saying 'what's that then?' every time.

[Raider4]

I can see no use for any 'aboo' myself but I have no objection to others so doing as long as they don't mind me saying 'what's that then?' every time.

I doubt very much that you or I will ever hear this spoken. It seems to be very much an internet thing.

[fsn]

I doubt very much that you or I will ever hear this spoken. It seems to be very much an internet thing.

Oh I dunno. Ever played peek-aboo with a baby?

Is that all about people with a fixation on small, annoying dogs?

[Raider4]

Oh I dunno. Ever played peek-aboo with a baby?

Is that all about people with a fixation on small, annoying dogs?

Or a fixation with urination?

[flamingpig0]

 Wehraboo seems  easier to say than "childish  and  historically inaccurate closet Nazi"

[sunjester]

Wehraboo seems  easier to say than "childish  and  historically inaccurate closet Nazi"

Saying "Ugg!" and pointing is easier than saying "Pass me a 25mm socket spanner please." but it doesn't make for clear communication! Equally with "aboo", I suspect that if you asked 100 users of such a word to write down their exact meaning, there would be 99 different interpretations!

[Ithoriel]

Saying "Ugg!" and pointing is easier than saying "Pass me a 25mm socket spanner please." but it doesn't make for clear communication! Equally with "aboo", I suspect that if you asked 100 users of such a word to write down their exact meaning, there would be 99 different interpretations!

I can think of several teenagers I've met who clearly disagreed with your first point


As to to the second I  suspect there are a great many words that people don't use in exactly the same way.

People coin new words or resurrect old ones all the time and they go into the crucible of everyday usage. A few are forged into shiny new words that are part of common usage and most pop and fizzle until they are reduced to dross and discarded. Existing words change meaning.

Language evolves to suit current need and I, for one, am glad of it.

[Gwydion]

I love the evolution of language - pretty darn ecstatic we moved from a moderately inflected Anglo-Saxon/Old English language to what we currently have (although if I'd grown up speaking moderately inflected German I'd no doubt be happy with that too).

If someone were on here manning the barricades against any change in English 'like wot it is spoke proper like' I'd be right there with you storming them and shouting 'Down with the English Academy!'
As it is they aren't.

I do wonder if using 'aboo', especially as a negative thing, isn't cultural appropriation from the Irish war cry? And offensive to sixteenth century Irish clans everywhere? I shall ask my wife.

[flamingpig0]

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Saying "Ugg!" and pointing is easier than saying "Pass me a 25mm socket spanner please." but it doesn't make for clear communication!

In context I think it might.

[flamingpig0]

I do wonder if using 'aboo', especially as a negative thing, isn't cultural appropriation from the Irish war cry? And offensive to sixteenth century Irish clans everywhere? I shall ask my wife.

The Time Travellers Husband? interesting idea for a film follow up

[Raider4]

Interesting:

[steve_holmes_11]

Interesting:

I'm impressed by the barrel stabilisation.

But .. I think I could climb down a deck and fetch a new shell in the time the loader is taking.

Which reminds me.
I wish I knew more about Destroyer ammunition supply in WW2.

[paulr]

Depending on the range that may be the time the shell takes to arrive at the target and so allow for correcting fall of shot

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Still it does seem a bit slow on the cycle. Manual loading gives 5-6 rounds per minute

[Raider4]

It's clearly not going at full tilt. From Wikipedia:

"The gun mount features an automatic loader with a capacity of 20 rounds. These can be fired under full automatic control, taking a little over a minute to exhaust those rounds at maximum fire rate."

The British 4.5" gun goes even faster at about 25 rounds per minute, but is being phased out in favour of the US design.