The Super Word Game of Abbreviations

there's a lot of words out there that. are actually abbreviations for other. words does link know those let's play. the game about it hi i'm tori and i'm. tayan from nevada good mythical morning. [Music]. good mythical morning today's episode is. brought to you by the red link store go. to redlink.com click on store and then. spend all of your life savings it's that. simple thanks for supporting. entertainment period at large buying our.

stuff. uh it's worth it. that's the red link financial plan. go to railing.com spend all your money. okay link you're a smart. kind of guy. yeah kind of as opposed to a kind of. smart guy yes i'm a smart kind of guy. and as you know if you watch good. mythical morning on a regular basis you. know we like to test one another play a. game of wits. and. see how well we can. do and if you do well enough you get. something well i found this article that.

was basically. uh there are a bunch of words out there. that you may use in everyday. conversation that are actually only. don't look at the answers i saw your. little sneak look dude i was not looking. at this put a partition up you're. cheating already i was not okay. and some of these words that you use on. a regular basis are actually. abbreviations for other words and you're. like oh i guess i didn't know that i. didn't know that many of these when i. looked at these i know that and so what. i'm going to do is i'm going to say. these words and then i'm going to ask. you to give me the word that they are.

actually short for the original word. that has now been shortened so i like to. call this the super. word game of abbreviations. and here's how it's gonna work. if there's these are not easy. i don't know how many i got when i went. through but i got a minority correct. okay and so there's 15 i'm gonna go. through if you get five okay you win if. you get less than five you lose and. here's what happens if you lose if you. lose. uh for the next episode of good mythical. morning you must wear this dunce metal.

okay it's pretty high dollar it looks. like you took a super note metal and. then put a piece of paper over top well. that's what i did and wrote a problem. with my production design. and if you win get five or more correct. you get an awk. this is not what i talked about. yesterday which is a whale and a hawk. together this is awesome word nowhere. it's abbreviation get it i do right. thanks for you know really putting heart. and soul into this should i go ahead and. put this one on. you can put both of them on and take off.

the one that you lose no i'm not i'm not. going to put the duncan on ever all. right link your first oh and here's. before we get going a lot of you may not. know this but jason uh the man behind. the camera also has some pretty nice. chops when it comes to voice over so we. decided that we would give him an. opportunity to repeat the work just in. case you or link did not hear it but. when he repeats it he's going to repeat. it in a very movie trailer voice. dramatic voice okay i like that link so. i'm going to go very non-dramatic when i. say it.

your first word is taxicab taxicab. that's good jason what is that short for. um. i don't know. uh. nope you know what i do know. taxidermy. cabin because. uh taxidermists. historically didn't drive so they had to. get people to take them to their cabins. you know what that sounds true but it's. wrong it's actually taximeter. cabriolet.

okay cabriolet that's a that's like a. chevy chevy vehicle yes i think taxi. meter cabriolet all right so i'm not. winning yet uh. emoticon emoticon. i think i know this one. uh this is one of the ones i didn't know. emote. meaning to convey emotions. plus icon meaning to to make something a. visual representation or something emote.

plus icon. or emotion plus icon okay yeah it's a. motive icon or a motion icon okay got it. i'm gonna give you that one. of course i i got it. shortly. chortle. definition please. um. you know it's like when you're you're. you're laughing. and you oh you're totally giving it away. thanks. uh chuckle and snort.

you know is that it did i get it yep i. see i got it. this is more difficult this is one that. i was like you know what i think that is. right but i've never thought about it. maybe i'm just an idiot smog smog. smoke. and fog. equals smog. you knew that already yeah yeah i'm a. california can man hold on you've. already got three right i'm killing it.

baby you want to turn it off at night so. let me go ahead and put this on. i'll get 10 right maybe. i'll get 10 right just the same metal as. the other one i just put a different. thing on the front next question. velcro. velcro what's it short for oh the very. first podcast we ever did was dedicated. to the history of velcro so i should. know this i know that it's swiss. for. vel. velvet. velvet hook because they hook.

it's actually the french words for uh. velvet and hook velours and. velour and crochet yeah we okay. so i'll give you a half point what. because i i over i said swiss well you. didn't say the original one right. the wrong language fine. uh. there's no way there's absolutely no. velvet you're not gonna get five let's. change it you need to get eight okay i'm. that good. because i mean you've got four and a. half already right. three three and a half yeah.

uh. fan. fan. okay this this one's easy uh fanatic. correct okay. motel. motel. motel hotel holiday inn say what. um. i do not. a trick question there's no it's not. short for anything. you have to be kidding me.

motor hotel i actually oh really yeah a. motorist's hotel or a motor hotel it's a. motel well you can drive right in your. room can't win them all did you know. that. microsoft. microsoft. the way you say it makes it not sound. like a computer company it makes it. sound like. well something in a movie you've got to. get six right microscopic software. no.

micro computer software micro what. computer man you know like little teeny. computers all right whatever okay. movie. movie. i actually know this one. moving picture correct yeah four and a. half minutes just like a talkie was a. movie where the p there was sound that's. called gotta get seven in order to win. i make the rules. you also make the medals and they suck. car.

uh. carter mobile. i don't know. carriage ah that's easy dang it uh pixel. pixel uh. this is. um it derives from the spanish. uh shortened word. el pix which is short for el pixedor. which means. little dot.

um. it means picture element. picture there's no x in picture or. element well you know it's like hey take. some pics man take a pics of me oh. take a pic you take some pics p-i-c-s. after a while it gets changed to p-i-x. and then it's just like hey man take. just a little element of a pic of me you. see what happens people you tune in and. you learn something and you can seem. smarter to your friend you're not. smarter but you can sing smarter to your. friends yeah it's all thanks to us. thanks to us being smarter is not. important.

we'll say thanks to them thanks to them. thanks to us vitamin thanks to us. vitamin vitamin. [Laughter]. no i i don't i didn't know this one. i think i know it. because you know i take a lot of. supplements. um he doesn't ever say this on that. vital. minerals. nope. i really thought that was it dude.

vital. amine. what a-m-i-n-e that's another. abbreviated word it's like that worm. tunnel of abbreviations it's japanese. animation man. what. you don't know. i wouldn't it looks like anime. okay what's the next one how many do i. have to get right now. your score is five and a half right now. i've already won but. you you've got to get one out of the. next three right to win okay. uh bit.

bit. you know use it in a sentence. uh give me a little bit of that ice. cream you got left so it's not like. like like i'm. it's a bit like oh uh. hey man. uh could you send me over that. file that's approximately 700 bits i. think it's i think it's a shortened. version of the two words. small and bite b-y-t-e. small byte is a bit. sub byte sub byte binary plus digit.

binary digit i should have known that. now you'll get this one. okay snark. snark. i think. it's i don't know. it's shark but the way it shortened is. they lopped off the top of the h. that's how it shortened it just. shortened physically. snide remarks.

it's obvious once you say it but i'm. sure you didn't know that beforehand. okay for the win. cyborg. cyborg. uh. cybertronic. [Laughter]. you really went downhill at the end man. cybernetic organism like hanging. organism you know what you got a borg. you got what i told you you would get at. the very beginning give me that so you.

get to be an awesome word knower and awk. if you will you can wear that for as. long as you want but at least the next. episode congratulations link. you're smarter than you look. i know. shortened words. and now you do too thank you later you. get a little off keel over here. dinosaurs at the end of your life. i would eat you right now. because i'm a t-rex i'm a contour but.

i'm so old i have no teeth see. i'm a two-plus t-rex i think end of my. life well. there's a couple of ways of interpreting. this one is that we're old dinosaurs. which is funny. but a better one. is that we're at the end of the era of. us. 65 million years ago oh so we're but. it's also about to be extinctified by an. asteroid. look at that.

what is that it's getting bigger it's. very bright. getting hot. i'm gonna take a bite out of here since. i think probably gonna kill us. dinosaurs at the end of their lives. [Music].

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