Here's the sitruation : I need words. Lots of them. All kinds, of every colour and measure. All these nebulous and fleeting ideas flotting in my head need to be pinned them. So keep those words coming !
Here's the mission : list your favourite words, those that turned the light on, those that brought on your epiphanies, those that made the darkness light, those that enlightened you and those that confused you to no end.
Here's the mission : list your favourite words, those that turned the light on, those that brought on your epiphanies, those that made the darkness light, those that enlightened you and those that confused you to no end.
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Sun, October 16, 2005 - 12:38 PMHere's a great word: MATUTINAL.
I discovered it after I played it in a recent Scrabble tourney.
(Since I study lists of tens of thousands of words, I do
not always have time to learn all the definitions to them.)
It means "of, relating to, or occurring in the morning,"
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Sun, October 16, 2005 - 3:02 PMhmmm....that`s what I`m talking about !
recent favourites of mine (practical words)
reify : make (something abstract) more concrete or real.
convolution : 1 a coil or twist. 2 the state of being or process of becoming coiled or twisted. 3 a complex argument, statement, etc.
both definitions are from the on-line OED, but I find they fall short of giving the words the specific nuance.
Let`s keep the ball rolling ! More words -
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Sun, October 16, 2005 - 5:43 PMInteresting thing about the past tense of REIFY:
REIFIED anagrams to DEIFIER, which is also the
word backwards. I suppose one could even
consider them cognates.
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Tue, October 18, 2005 - 8:52 PMa current favorite: nefarious.
I also like disreputable ...
you can gather my recent mood, I suppose, from my choices ....
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Mon, October 24, 2005 - 4:11 PMHello everyone!
One of my recent favorites is VICISSITUDES.
We are all victims of the vicissitudes of fate. -
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Mon, October 24, 2005 - 7:11 PM
Oh, and the adjectival form VICISSITUDINOUS, "marked
or filled with vicissitudes."
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Mon, October 24, 2005 - 11:07 PMWhich brings to mind another one of my favorites, which was also, it seems, a favorite of Jorge Luis Borges (or at least his translator):
VERTIGINOUS
From Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius:
"All men, in the vertiginous moment of coitus, are the same man."
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Tue, October 25, 2005 - 5:44 AMYes. Coitus should always be vertiginous,
not caliginous or fuliginous.
Speaking of coitus,
back when I was a mind-conditioned minister,
I once gave a short sermon based on a chapter
in Genesis about Onan and used the expression
"coitus interruptus." Didn't get too much of a
reaction from the audience unfortunately.
(Don't want to pull out too far from the discussion
at hand, though. Maybe I can redeem myself by
mentioning a couple of interesting, quite specific
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Tue, October 25, 2005 - 10:31 AMheheheh -- -you said "pull out ..."
heheheheheeheh ....
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A couple of cool 12-letter words from the dialect of the Scots
Wed, October 26, 2005 - 7:07 PMWALLYDRAIGLE--a feeble, imperfectly developed, slovenly
creature
WHIGMALEERIE--an odd or fanciful contrivance
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Re: WORDS ! more words !
Thu, October 27, 2005 - 9:11 AMOoh, almost forgot one of my favorite words of all time:
PALIMPSEST
