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June 7

Drama queen

Why "drama queen", even for males? 2001:8003:4438:EE00:D856:7895:B154:5EFD (talk) 10:57, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No reference, but one suspects that in the traditional gender role scheme, manly virtues may include "physical and emotional stoicism – an insensibility to physical pain and coolness under pressure" (see artofmanliness.com) Thus, making a great fuss about a trivial matter may be seen by some as effeminate. I did find Married to a Drama Queen or King? , but I've never heard it spoken. Alansplodge (talk) 11:38, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

EO says "drama queen" dates to about 1992, though no source is given.[1] Checking Newspapers.com (a pay site), the term itself seems to have been around for at least a century, though generally applied to women. Wiktionary has this to say about it.[2] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:11, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The first citation in the OED, a real dictionary, is from the Washington Post 10th December 1923. DuncanHill (talk) 12:53, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Because it is used as a pejorative term when applied to males as a term of emasculation. --Jayron 32 01:07, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also, "drama king" just doesn't have the right ring to it. 2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 19:33, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

However, there are drag kings. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:36, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Like this one? —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 01:38, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Elizabeth the Queen Mother once put a stop to a screaming match in the kitchens with the instruction that there could be only one queen at Clarence House.PiCo (talk) 09:11, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A (Preferably popular) English bible translation, broken down into parts of speech?

Hello, i was wondering if anyone knew of such a thing as a commonly used English language bible translation (NIV, KJV?) broken down into parts of speech. For example:

From KJV:

Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 - IN DT NN NNP VBD DT NN CC DT NN.

( I used https://parts-of-speech.info/ to help with this )

I would like to see something like this for an entire bible translation if possible, where it is clear which version this is done to.

Many thanks in advance! 216.173.144.190 (talk) 18:51, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is this: https://english.edward.io but it can't handle larger blocks of text. Maybe you could write to the programmer and have him run the whole KJV for you. Abductive (reasoning) 04:24, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We have an article Part-of-speech tagging... AnonMoos (talk) 09:58, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Strictly speaking that would be impossible - the parts of speech of Hebrew are not those of English, and the English translation of the Hebrew is not, and can never be, totally accurate.PiCo (talk) 09:09, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bricken

My neighbour he tell me that when police called other night to search his flat he "was well bricken it". Is he quickly building a brick wall to keep them out? I am thinking he has no good builder skills. 20:42, 7 June 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.187.172.204 (talk)

This is probably the answer.[3] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:05, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also, to wikt:brick it (to be terrified). —Stephen (talk) 01:19, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See also Informal English: well as an intensifier, originally a marker of Multicultural London English, but now widespread in the UK. Alansplodge (talk) 12:30, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]