what does virtch and virtching mean?

[bosod...@gmail.com]

i heard it in a monologue of descriptors and definitions for Borat and Ali G.

But when searched all i could find was a link to this text -- is it a madeup word

https://books.google.com/books?id=KOruTZBd52wC&pg=PA306&lpg=PA306&dq=virtching&source=bl&ots=oRRTfL_8Ii&sig=zj7lJrLiFK82V8KFHDDVYfAd3jw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ETyoVOecGs6pogTwsoKgCw&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=virtching&f=false

[Bertel Lund Hansen]

bosod...@gmail.com skrev:

> But when searched all i could find was a link to this text --
> is it a madeup word

The page you found, doesn't have the word "virtch". Neither had
another page that Google suggested. They are false Google hits.

I can't help you with the word. Dictionary.com does not know it.

--
Bertel, Denmark

[Horace LaBadie]

In article <732a70c3-612c-417a...@googlegroups.com>,

bosod...@gmail.com wrote:

> i heard it in a monologue of descriptors and definitions for Borat and Ali G.
>
> But when searched all i could find was a link to this text -- is it a madeup
> word
>

It looks like a nonce word formed from "virtual reality."

[bosod...@gmail.com]

You can hear it used at ~ 21" into the first minute of the introduction to this 2006 PRI broadcast on Sasha Baron Cohen http://radioopensource.org/the-pain-of-borat/

in the pages displayed all it said was some refrain about "teepers not Virtching" and "Virtching, not teeping" ... WETFTI?

https://books.google.com/books?id=KOruTZBd52wC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Mack A. Damia]

It may mean going into a synthetic world. "Virtual world"?

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[bosod...@gmail.com]

When is it appropriate and not to use a word like this with questionable Currency?

[snide...@gmail.com]

> When is it appropriate and not to use a word like this with questionable Currency?

When you're making comedy routines?

/dps

[bosod...@gmail.com]

good point

[Peter T. Daniels]

> When is it appropriate and not to use a word like this with questionable Currency?

When the context makes it apparent what is intended.

[bosod...@gmail.com]

I am constantly building my own glossary of sorts I call my BWT (Better Word Than) in which i'm always entering new less-awkward terms or constructions followed by whatever i previously considered were the more-awkward words or constructions -- simply an annotated word thingy in which I enter a new word, term or string followed by "BWT" followed by the old familiar previous word or string I was more accustomed to. In reality though I seldom if ever used it -- but you can see it's simply a formula for using BWT as an equal=sign and where 'virtching' was another example of how nouns and adjectives become verbs and gerunds as in how 'gift' prolly became 'gifting'. In this case though i can only assume 'virching' could also be an argument for morphing 'irony' into 'ironing' to suggest how easily 'irony' can be precipitated as a desired process and effect when 'virching' Borat, which is what i think the author who coined and cited the terms were suggesting was the phenomena in progress i.e. of precipitating parody and sardonic irony as a product of the character Borat.

[Jennifer Murphy]

Care to post a few examples from your BWT dictionary? Might be on
interest for some.

[bosod...@gmail.com]

i'm almost inclined to copy paste the whole damn thing but then there's prolly too many names addresses and other incriminating stuff i ought take a look at first and delete -- if i see anything interesting and not purely copy pasted from a dictionary or thesaurus i'll let you know