Title: Frobnicate Post by: youhn on January 05, 2017, 05:59:14 PM My PC serves me daily quotes or stories. This one appears to hit the fractal nature of meaning of words. Fun thing about definitions is that there seems to be no way at all to check if a definition is "correct", whatever correct means.
Quote Frobnicate, v.: To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. Derived from FROBNITZ. Usually abbreviated to FROB. Thus one has the saying "to frob a frob". See TWEAK and TWIDDLE. Usage: FROB, TWIDDLE, and TWEAK sometimes connote points along a continuum. FROB connotes aimless manipulation; TWIDDLE connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; TWEAK connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. Seems this forums houses more frobbers than the average slice of population. Title: Re: Frobnicate Post by: mclarekin on January 05, 2017, 11:35:45 PM thanks Youhn, a cool funny useful new word. :) :) :)
Title: Re: Frobnicate Post by: hobold on January 06, 2017, 08:06:36 AM Hmm, I don't think I grok this.
Title: Re: Frobnicate Post by: SamTiba on January 08, 2017, 03:20:16 PM frobbing is a lot of fun, especially in the worlds of fractals :D tweaking sounds like searching for something you already know where to find, but frobbing is more like 'life, show me something new!' which works perfectly fine for fractals |