In which she learns a new word (not an earthquake post!!!)

[zeborah]

Okay, so I learned it from someone on the #eqnz Twitter feed, but that's not the point.

The point is this: I'm clearly behind the linguistic times, because this has been around for at least two years, and the word is this:

roflnui

New Zealanders may be able to parse it without aid. (I only had trouble the first time I saw it today because it was ROFLNUI so I thought it was all an acronym.) It's apparently pronounced "roffle-nui". It's derived from the acronym for "rolling on the floor laughing" plus the Māori word "nui" = "big" and thus means something like "this is hilarious!"

I really love New Zealand English.

I forgot to mention something earthquake-related but I've forgotten what it was again and anyway I said this wasn't an earthquake post, so I'll just go to bed instead.

Comments

[bibliothekara]

I will immediately appropriate this, if that's all right. It is fun to say, even if my Northeastern accent probably butchers it.

And, since I have been lax recently in my flist duties, *BIG HUG* *very glad that you came through the earthquake (mostly) unscathed*

[zeborah]

Only NZers will have a clue what you're talking about but go for it. :-)

And thanks for the hug. I want to say something coherent about no such thing as laxness; there's only so much people can say about Yet Another Earthquake. Or something, but I'm not overly coherent this morning after a bunch more in the night. I thought it was coincidence, but thrice is enemy action: the earth is definitely saving up the bigger ones for while we're trying to sleep.

But it did give me the chance to prove by experiment that "Thank God I can just stay here and stick a pillow over my head" wins out against longer-ingrained habits.