A Silly NitPick thats been bugging me: (Vapee, Vapor, Vaporer)

[ladyraj]

vapor - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Main Entry: 2vapor
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): va·pored; va·por·ing \-p(ə-)riŋ\
Date: 15th century
1 a : to rise or pass off in vapor b : to emit vapor
2 : to indulge in bragging, blustering, or idle talk

— va·por·er \-pər-ər\ noun

Thus, I am a vaporer who vapored yesterday but will begin vaporing once I complete my task and I'm currently engaged in fulfilling the definition criteria outlined by #2 above.

 

[Nuck]

Well, if you want to get into semantics about the English language..... what we emit is VAPOUR LOL!

Thank you! Nice to see at least one honourable person has added colour to this debate!!

 

[TnA]

Wow, someone reallllly needs to get a more interesting life.

Soon.

Please.

LOL....say's the guy with 1168 posts since joining this forum in June.

 

[whistlrr]

Lol, to those of you who have settled on self-identifying as a 'vaporizer'..

I thought about this briefly, before settling in on that I think we're 'vaporers'


I'm still 'old-school' enough that just the very word "vaporizer' in and of itself still conjures up old images of something from childhood sat in the corner of the bedroom to run all night during cold season and I get a giggle just thinking that as a 'vaporizer' I should maybe look in the mirror and expect to see something sorta like this looking back at me: