From where did the word 'mylotting' originate from ?
By Kitycat
@KityCat (7739)
India
June 20, 2020 6:49am CST
In my guess , just like we say cooking , eating sleeping , snacking etc , myLotting means that we are here interacting on myLot , if you ask me . Or does this word have some other meaning or origin ?
What you think my friends ?
Do you use the word often ?
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I just adapt the usage of it.
@jayanth_77 (7179)
• India
20 Jun 20
I feel mylot means my group or my gang . people in a group sitting together and discussing some topic.
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@Butterfingers (66603)
• India
20 Jun 20
I don't remember if I used this word but it would be nice to get an answer
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
20 Jun 20
English often uses the present participle of a verb to make a noun or an adjective which describes the action. It also frequently turns a noun into a verb to describe an action appropriate to the thing.
As a good example, there was a vacuum cleaner made by a man by the name of Hoover. People came to refer to the device as 'a Hoover' rather than as a vacuum cleaner because it was rather easier. Then, instead of calling what they did with the device 'vacuum cleaning', they made the word 'hoover' into a verb so that now one can say "I hoovered the bedroom" or "She was hoovering the floor". It's just a short step from there to the noun - "I am going to give the living room a good hoovering." It makes no difference that similar devices are now made by Panasonic and Dyson and so on: they are all referred to (informally) in Britain as 'hoovers' (Americans call the thing 'a vacuum' and 'to vacuum' is the noun and the rather unwieldy word for the action is 'vacuuming'. but the Americans always did have their own way of doing things).
'Mylotting' is just another example of the English way of making a verb out of a noun and then making a noun to describe the action out of the verb.
As a matter of interest, by the way, 'myLot' was, at one time, the name of a site which sold garden accessories (a 'lot' being a word used, mostly in the US, for a piece of land). The owners of the current site found that the name was up for sale and took it over because it was short and memorable and it can also mean 'my group of friends and family'.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
22 Jun 20
@MALUSE 'Argot' is a French word, I was under the impression that it meant 'slang' or 'cant' rather than 'jargon'. If The Cambridge Dictionary lists it as in use in English, then its use is fairly limited. Most people would say either 'slang' or 'jargon' (I don't think many people would recognise the word 'cant', which has fallen out of use since the 19th C.
In England, a Mr Kilner sold much the same kind of jar for preserving and in America it was a Mr. Mason. I don't think either of them have achieved the honour that Mr Hoover did of becoming a household word which could be a noun, a verb or an adjective as required!
@Miss_Leafy (4296)
• Colombia
20 Jun 20
No ideas. I just copied what friends here said about socializing in this website. 
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