Kerfuffle, kerfluffle. What's an "l" between friends? I can now claim to have americanized it, which makes it all the better.
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
kat perez - Jun 15, 2005 12:28:41 pm PDT #2253 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
sumi - Jun 15, 2005 12:30:21 pm PDT #2254 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
amych! I just got an email with some sort of strategic planning reminder!!
It wasn't even for my own department.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 12:31:08 pm PDT #2255 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kerfuffle, kerfluffle. What's an "l" between friends? I can now claim to have americanized it, which makes it all the better.
Wouldn't the americanised version be kerfffle?
Trudy Booth - Jun 15, 2005 12:31:17 pm PDT #2256 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Since this particular variation of Mormonism seems to have recently opted for "Do what Jeff says" as its primary dogma, I don't see how it can survive in its present form past his death.
This leader has been running the show since his father died a few years ago. He appears to be running it into the ground.
Ginger - Jun 15, 2005 12:32:12 pm PDT #2257 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Americanized version is "kerfufflize."
amych - Jun 15, 2005 12:32:14 pm PDT #2258 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I just got an email with some sort of strategic planning reminder!!
They're trying to bump up to religion status, whoever they are.
It wasn't even for my own department.
That's what they tell you now.
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2005 12:32:35 pm PDT #2259 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What is the etymology of 'kerfuffle'?
For some reason I imagine it started in the porn industry. I like the idea of a fluffer kerfuffle.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 15, 2005 12:32:52 pm PDT #2260 of 10001
What is even happening?
You say kerfuffle, I say kerfluffle
Will Baude at 09:33 PM
In response to my post below, Dan Moore writes in to gently suggest that I have mis-spelled the word "kerfuffle" by slipping in a superfluous "l". As an investigation of the Crescat archives may reveal, this is not a one-time oversight on my part, but rather repetitive, if perhaps erroneous, usage.
My "kerfluffle" does not appear in the OED or Dictionary.com, and it is outnumbered on Google by about 56 to 4. Still, I like the extra letter, so I thought I should investigate how reasonable it would be to claim the new word as an alternate spelling or new formation.
"Kerfuffle", it turns out, has endured many new and old spellings, including "curfuffle", "kurfuffle," "carfuffle," "gefuffle" and "cafuffle". It started life as a Scottish verb, a variant of "fuffle" (disorder) saddled with an uncertain prefix perh/car/cur/ker/etc.
However, "fuffle" itself began life as a piece of onomatopoeia, so "fluffle" which sounds sweeter and a touch less violent to my ear can make a legitimate claim to being a lighter, fluffier fuffle. Tracing kerfuffle's path, a ker-fluffle becomes a more light-hearted and goodnatured flurry or disarray than its older kin. Henceforth, I will stand by my neologism.
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§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 12:34:34 pm PDT #2261 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Main Entry: ker·fuf·fle
Pronunciation: k&r-'f&-f&l
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of carfuffle, from Scots car- (probably from Scottish Gaelic cearr wrong, awkward) + fuffle to become disheveled
chiefly British : DISTURBANCE, FUSS
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2005 12:35:34 pm PDT #2262 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Main Entry: ker·fuf·fle
I didn't even know it was a real word.