Ceridwen
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 24, 2003 9:08:21 GMT -5
Proclivity is pretty, Rhi. I like it, too. And you think 'fantabulous' is a mad made-up word? My old landlady used to say 'Fan-dabba-dosies' when she was happy - it's an experience to hear her!
I love 'transcendental'. It's like a multi-faceted crystal.
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Post by MagPie on Nov 24, 2003 22:58:50 GMT -5
I don't like proclivity. It's too hard. As for made up words, I have a friend who says "confuddled." It's a cross between confused and befuddled. Ok, a word I like...hmm...aha. Turquoise
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 25, 2003 3:02:20 GMT -5
Heh - I love 'bamboozled'. I think it's a really fun sound, you can do a lot with all those 'o's in the middle.
Bamboooooooooooooozle... ;D
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Post by En on Nov 25, 2003 11:57:02 GMT -5
*chuckle* So Lumie says "fan-bloody-tastic" sometimes, right? There's actually a technical term for sticking one word inside another -- you know how sticking a word on the beginning is using a prefix, and one on the end is a suffix? One in the middle is technically known as an infix. So Lumie is using the infix "bloody" to give emphasis and colour to "fantastic."
Oddly enough, the only two words I have ever seen used as infixes in the English language are "bloody" and "f***." As in expressing frustration with a certain southern state in the US by calling it "Kenf******tucky."
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 25, 2003 12:01:44 GMT -5
Aha - Ireland has that infixing with the 'f' word down to a fine art. *straightens her spine with pride*
We can put that word in anywhere. *realises it's not really something to be proud of* But it's funny.
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Post by S.S Tigress on Nov 25, 2003 20:45:34 GMT -5
I don't know a lot of great words mainly because my vocabulary is at an all time low. So I like words in other languages. Sounds of words are always enjoyable for me. Like 'Voiture" in french or "nove" in italian. they're all simple words but it's mainly just they way they're pronounced is why I like words, not their meaning.
favourite word for the day for me: burgundy
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Post by En on Nov 25, 2003 23:05:24 GMT -5
My gang at college used to do this thing, I forget how it started, where we'd sing the little jingle from the old "Operation" board-game commercials, only we'd stick in a different four-syllable word ending in "-ation." So, you know, someone would be choking on dinner and my buddy Eric would bust out, "Mastication takes coordination... Mastication, a game we all can play."
What made me think of that: my word of the day is "masticate." I was really hungry at lunch.
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Post by MagPie on Nov 26, 2003 16:07:43 GMT -5
Does everybody in here actually use these words (or other $64000 words) on a regular basis? I try not to, mostly because I find it really pretentious when other people do it. My supervisor, for example. We'll be in a parent conference with decidedly uneducated parents and he'll throw out all these big words and it really annoys me. So I like to know these words, but I only pull them out in certain company.
I don't have a favourite word yet today. Maybe later.
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Post by hermoine on Nov 26, 2003 16:14:48 GMT -5
I don't have much of a specified word I like. Maybe Sometimes I find a word or other which comes abit difficult to pronounce. Right now I remember one, but it isn't in English we read it in French class. It was "Chef d'Etat" I think. And the one next to me said "He cooks for them!! ;D"
Like sometimes I ecnounter strange words, but it's in my mother language and if I posted it here, probability is nobody would know what I'm saying.
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 27, 2003 3:33:28 GMT -5
Mag, no - I don't use these words in everyday conversation. I save 'em for my academic work, like theses, essays and things. Occasionally I'll let a big five-syllable monster loose on my friends, but they'll always slap me down and remind me no-one likes a showoff. ;D Which, keeping with the spirit of the day, I'm thankful for.
Herm! I'd love to see some Maltese. Would you post a word, and tell us what it means?
Today I am loving: Ocean. Such a rushing, soft word.
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Post by Calantha on Nov 27, 2003 22:42:35 GMT -5
No Magpie, most of the words I've posted in here I don't use on a regular basis, in fact, the words I use are generally the words I post with. I've got a pretty big fear of sounding pretentious and/or putting another person in an uncomfortable position. Haha, that's why I'm going to become an english teacher, so then I can drill words and books into my students' heads. (Okay, not really the reason, but it seems like a pretty good idea to me). I wish I was at the ocean right now Ceri... Although right now the words "yams" is dancing around in my head (probably because today is Thanksgiving and I love yams and marshmellows) but I like the word tomfoolery...my little cousin heard me say it today and ran around my grandmother's house all day saying it. I can't say anything around him anymore.
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 28, 2003 9:46:44 GMT -5
Kids are incredible like that, aren't they? I remember teaching my little cousin Ciara how to say 'discombobulate' when she was only a wee scrap, and she went around for days going 'deescambamulate!' driving her mother demented. ;D Today, my words are Constabulary, Incredulous, Prognosticate and Tourmaline. *sigh* Happiness in words! Cal - I work right by the sea, so it's great. I can see my ocean every day... well, not really an ocean. It's the Irish Sea, so it's only a pond in comparison to an ocean! But good enough...
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Post by En on Nov 28, 2003 18:42:23 GMT -5
Mm. I have, at various times in my life, made conscious efforts not to use too many long words, but the only time this works is a) when I'm entirely surrounded by people who don't use long words and have been listening to them closely (essentially, this is like picking up an accent, which I'm not half bad at) and b) as long as none of them push my buttons, which tends to make me go all sesquipedalian on them.
However, I don't make much of an effort to hobble my gobbledegook here because most of the people I'm aiming my remarks at know what I mean, or own a good dictionary and don't mind looking things up, or know when to ignore me
word du jour: antithesis. I've used it about twelve times today for no particularly good reason other than that I'm excited about the movie I just bought, which happens to have loads of antitheses on the loose.
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Post by MagPie on Nov 29, 2003 18:35:35 GMT -5
En, when I read antithesis, I LITERALLY jumped in my seat and said (out loud, mind you) MMM, I love that! I don't know why, but it's a great word Today I like pyschopathology. It can be a bit of a mouthful if you're not ready to say it but when you are, it kind of rolls off the tongue. I like -ology words.
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Post by Calantha on Nov 29, 2003 20:38:51 GMT -5
Ceri, you work by the beach!? Aw, you're so lucky. The beach always clears my head...and I love the view and the smells and sounds...*sighs*
Today I've had chock-a-block on my mind all day...I guess because somebody said it and then I just kept on thinking of it or something, I don't know. I haven't heard it used a lot (other than myself...but I sometimes have a tendancy to use worsd like chock-a-block...).
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