blatherskite typhoid blathering blatherskites! ... - the cartoon blares. uhh... i stammer. uhh..... 000104 ... marq we are all blatherskites. we blather we bluster we gab we talk about NOTHING but it is fun and I am glad the ultimate baltherskite jennifer introduced me to it THANKS! 000713 ... jennifer and for some odd reason I'm glad too 000723 ... ClairE ::hangs head in shame:: 011130 ... Grievance Wind howled "blatherskite." small GiRL in yellow, "Grandfather, is a blatherskite a type of kite?" GRANDfather *chuckles* small GiRL in yellow, "Oh, one of those." as she curled her nose up in disgust and looked towards a non-existant distance. I reel around and stare at her wrinkled nose comotose in it's ignorancy of the sullen blue. 011227 ... Grievance Wind howled "blatherskite." small GiRL in yellow, "Grandfather, is a blatherskite a type of kite?" GRANDfather *chuckles* ||"Well, sort of my dear, except they talk alot."|| small GiRL in yellow, "Oh, one of those." as she curled her nose up in disgust and looked towards a non-existant distance. I reel around and stare at her wrinkled nose comotose in it's ignorancy of the sullen blue. (note: do not use less than and equal than symbols, or you have an enclosure destined to deletion.) 011227 ... User24 try < and > instead. It works for me (thats: &lt; and &gt;) 020307 ... blown cherry Does anyone realise that blatherskite is also a company that does web and media design, and as well as that is a band specialising in "Evolutionary Soundscape Grind" performing at Club77 in Darlinghurst tomorrow night? I totally freaked when I saw the poster for the band. I'm working tomorrow night though so I don't think I'll be able to go and see them :( 020322 ... User24 weird and cool. 020612 ... p2 from dictionary.com: blath+er+skite Pronunciation Key (bl th r-sk t ) n. 1. A babbling, foolish person. 2. Blather. [blather + dialectal skite, a contemptible person (from Middle English skite, diarrhea, from Old Norse sk tr, excrement, from sk ta, to defecate. See skei- in Indo-European Roots).] Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 021108 ... p2 blatherskite = babbling diarrhea? 021108 ... Rhin so all along, we have just been ignorantly full of s**t? who would have thunk it? i think i thunk (i think) therefore i think i am 021108 ... p2 i thunk therefore i was 021108 ... Rhin p2, thank you for correcting me without slamming me. 021108 ... p2 last time i slammed someone it cost me $8000 in car repairs and a $10 mil law suit (still pending) 021108 ... User24 according to dictionary.com: blath·er·skite ( P ) Pronunciation Key (blthr-skt) n. A babbling, foolish person. Blather. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [blather + dialectal skite, a contemptible person (from Middle English skite, diarrhea, from Old Norse sktr, excrement, from skta, to defecate. See skei- in Indo-European Roots).] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. [Buy it] blatherskite Blath"er*skite, n. A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] --Barllett. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. blatherskite n : foolish gibberish [syn: blather] Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University 030426 ... User24 aargh! p2, you beat me!!! 030426 ... joda What the Hell is this place? Is this a chat room? A message board? A website? I'm really not understanding. Are we supposed to all discuss words with each other, or leave our defenition of the word? I write something and it's there on the screen.... Is there something more to this that perhaps I'm missing? 030426 ... minnesota_chris it sounds like your video card can't handle the animation part of it. You should try blather with a better video card some time... 030426 ... ever dumbening chris, behave. why not give our new friend the link to the patch, so he or she may enjoy the full graphical mayhem that is blather? 030426 ... Dafremen see also: BLATHERSKITES 030427 ... DannyH definition_of_blather 030427 ... mister useless trivia was also the name of one of Mark Twain's cats 030427 ... joda No No, I was wondering what this site is about, that's all. Do we just write whatever we want to here? That's what I've been doing, anyway. 030427 ... joda Thanks for the links! 030427 ... User24 evil, evil blatherskites! trying to make the newbie think there's animations. sheesh, you can't trust anyone these days. isth joda: why dont you click the voice chat link we'll tell you all about blather est failing that, welcome_to_blather 030509 ... User24 lmao@minnesota_chris, btw.. 030509 ... blown cherry One of these days I'm going to go see this band damnit! They're playing at the Annandale some time in the next few weeks and this time neither hell nor high water will keep me from going to watch. There's no way it's a coincidence. Is there? 041216 ... Keil Im not sure, but so far the've named their band after babling diarrhea. I'd just assume that either they named it after blather or their music is crap. Oh, and U24, you could always tell him where to purchase the DVD explaining it all. If he wants he can mail me the money and I'll send him a copy. ;) 060913 ... the delinquent formerly known as R.A.I.N. Lewis Carrol was the master. 061108 ... minnesota_chris having been to livejournal, facebook, ytmnd, myspace, and 4chan, I think I prefer the people who come here. There's something about the process of casting lonely words onto the deep blue sea that draws wistful and thoughful people. 070930 ... asshole alpha dictionary Word History: The original word blatherskite began its life in Scotland. During the Revolutionary War, the Scottish song Maggie Laude, in which this word occurs, became a favorite among Americans, so blatherskite became a familiar colloquialism in the 18th century. The original PIE root, *bledh- "to blow" went on to become bladder in English and bladhra "bladder" in Old Norse. However, when used as a verb in Old Norse, it meant "to prattle on", so English borrowed the Old Norse version back, giving us today's blather. (Today we are again grateful to Mark Bailey for suggesting such an unusual Good Word—and that's no blather!) 080822 ... my dictionary is bigger than yours BLATHERSKITE/ˈblæðəskʌɪt/Help with IPA A noisy talker of blatant rubbish; foolish talk or nonsense. This is actually a Scots word, really a pair of words, known from the seventeenth century on. These days, though, it’s more American than either British or Scots. That came about through one of those curious accidents of linguistic history that make the study of etymology such fun. Both halves of the word seem to be from Old Norse. Blether is a Scots word meaning loquacious claptrap, which comes from Old Norse blathra, to talk nonsense; it exists in various forms now, such as blather or blither (if you call someone a blithering idiot, as people in Britain often did in my youth, you’re using the same word, though most of the meaning had by then been leached out of it). Skate (skite, as Australians and New Zealanders will know it) is more problematic, but is the Scots word for a person held in contempt because of his boasting, which may derive from an Old Norse word meaning to shoot (and, if true, is probably the origin of the American skeet, as in skeet shooting, so that phrase actually means “shoot shooting”). Blatherskite is first recorded in an old Scots ballad called Maggie Lauder, attributed to Francis Sempill (or Semple) and dated about 1643, still well known today. There are various transcriptions of the first verse, one being: Wha wadnae be in love wi’ bonnie Maggie Lauder? A piper met her gaun tae Fife and speirt what was’t they ca’d her. Right dauntingly she answered him, “Begone ye hallanshaker. Jog on your gate ye blether skyte, my name is Maggie Lauder”. A rough translation into modern English is: Who wouldn't be in love with beautiful Maggie Lauder? A piper met her going to Fife and asked what people called her. Discouragingly she answered him, “Go away, you vagabond! Be on your way, you talkative boaster, my name is Maggie Lauder”. The song was pleasantly risqué (the piper, for instance, explains how all the girls swoon when he blows his chanter) and was very popular with the American side in the War of Independence. This introduced bletherskate, later blatherskite, to the American vocabulary, where it has remained ever since, albeit hardly on everyone’s lips daily. 091229 ... workinprogress. becoming 110105 ... neta meta 110105 ... meta meta 110105 what's it to you? who go blather from