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Post by En on Dec 19, 2003 22:32:46 GMT -5
Hm. I don't like monotony either, partly because it has all sorts of pretty sounds and then this T sitting in the middle like a lump of moldy bread Also it reminds me of Monopoly, which is also icky.
Fish is a good one. Sluice goes in the same category as fish. Juicy one-syllable words ;D
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Post by Nie on Dec 20, 2003 0:33:46 GMT -5
Lash does as well I think, although to me it has a slightly harsher sound that sluice or fish, just slightly. I thnk it's the 'a' sound.
I like 'splish splash'.
I really like the sound of lymphatic for some reason as well. It's meaning is very, very unlike me, so it's not because of it's meaning, I just like the sound.
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Post by En on Dec 20, 2003 1:25:43 GMT -5
Yeah, words that end in "ash" always sound rather violent to me; you know, maybe it was just too many comics as a kid or something, but "ash" words always remind me of crash, slash, smash, bash....
And yet, lash should sound pretty; it's got two pretty consonants in.
"Mellifluous." I like that one a lot.
"Amalgamated" sounds like the clumpy way milk gets when it's gone off
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Post by KoNeko on Dec 21, 2003 12:26:46 GMT -5
One of my favourite words is "Defenstration" (i.e. to throw someone/thing out a window). It's just such a funny, quirky word for something so not sounding like it.
Heh, the word "Boggle" (as in the game) reminds me of poo.
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Post by Nie on Dec 21, 2003 21:10:19 GMT -5
*tries to find how boggle can remind someone of poo but can't*
KoKo, you can be strange sometimes.
*whips out her Elvish word list*
narquelion - means autumn, or sun fading and sounds really pretty kallasilya - bright silvershine, also very pretty sounding Sarquindi - cannibal ogres. I found it almost amusing that such a pretty word is used for something so horrible luurea - dark, it just kinda rolls off the tongue namaarie - farewell, it's just such a nice way to say goodbye nessima - youthful, but even youthful in elvish sounds ancient
www.dragons-inn.org/Ifreann/Tynntangial/eng_elf.html
There's a link for anyone else who wants to find some fav elvish words of their own.
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Post by En on Dec 22, 2003 10:49:44 GMT -5
Gotta go with Li on that one, Koko... I'm not seeing the connection. But then, I'm the one who associates the word "scurrilous" with carpet, because of that weird screech noise / jarring feeling you get if you pull a thread from it. ...yeah.
OOOOOOOOOOO! *gleefully follows Liri's link*
Mesmerising. I love that one. Makes me wish I had a last name cool enough to be made into a word, too (Mesmer was a hypnotist.)
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Post by KoNeko on Dec 22, 2003 10:56:41 GMT -5
*grins* En, remember those little doll things, Sylvanian families or something? They're like, little animal figurines and they live in the woods...
Once I had a conversation with someone at school about naming future children and I got laughed at because I came up with "Ajax".
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Post by En on Dec 22, 2003 16:26:50 GMT -5
*cracks up* I knew this girl who made these big lists of names for the kids she wanted to have (all 12 of them) and they were like... Alandra Melania and Sebastian Collin and stuff. I'd take Ajax (Greek hero! Woo!) over Sebastian Collin any day Hm, I wonder if she has kids now... I hope her husband had more sense.... She had it all figured out: what month she wanted each one to be born in and the whole works. So their names would go with their astrological signs. Funny part was she had them being born every 11 months and I'm like... maybe you don't want to do that.
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Post by hermoine on Dec 22, 2003 16:35:40 GMT -5
She must've been pretty keen. Not to offend you or anything, but having a baby every 11 months, she REALLY didn't know what she was saying. I pass a day with my cousin and I'm real tired. I pass another day, my bones are aching(not really but.....)
So my word for today is...ah yes....temporarily. I saw a sign saying Temporarily Bus Stop
And it struck me as odd as it should have been Temporary Bus Stop
More stupid things in this little island of mine.
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Post by Ritsu on Dec 22, 2003 23:10:52 GMT -5
I'm too sleepy to think of my own words ((it's 4:04 am)), but I'll quote a friend of mine who once came up with a funny thought during one of the typical teenage angsty crisis.
"I just get tired of studying and school. There are so many good words starting with S like smashing, sonic, stone, suck, stay, shoot, satellite, scrape, score, secret, sparta, sand,why must the letter S include such crappy words such as school and study? Every rose has it's thorn, I guess.. "
And he's right.
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Post by Nie on Dec 24, 2003 5:01:54 GMT -5
I love the way sour just sounds so what it is.
My mum's BF was telling me today about how he has the chinese symbol for death tattooed on his neck. I asked him why he would tattoo death on his neck and he said he just likes the word, cos it's the one thing everyone has in common.
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Post by Ritsu on Dec 24, 2003 20:14:52 GMT -5
Doesn't anyone have life in common, too? I like to think so.. though everyone says 'death is the only sure thing we have in this life'. Ironical, eh? Using 'death' and 'life' in the same sentence. Anyway, don't mind me.
I like the word "ghost" for the way it sounds. "Ghoast". Argh, I don't know. I just know I nearly die everytime I hear a British man saying that word.
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Post by Tange-Rhi-ne, Tange-Rhi-ne on Dec 25, 2003 0:22:08 GMT -5
We have a vocabulary book for school and every week or so we do a new chapter and we learn all sorts of fun words from it. Yay fun words. I like the word clover. I like a lot of words with the "L" and "V" sounds in them. And "Q" is another good letter too. Onomatopoeia is a cool word. What I think is funny, though, is that it means words that sound like what they describe sounds...but it's not spelled like it sounds at all Alrighty, I've rambled enough...
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Post by hermoine on Dec 27, 2003 8:03:04 GMT -5
I agree with Rhi. Onomatopeia is kinda wierd.
I always had a bit of difficulty with metaphor. I used to write it as metaphere.
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Post by Nie on Dec 28, 2003 10:11:08 GMT -5
Ghost, rhymes with:
toast post roast boast coast most grossed
I like orange for the fact it's so very hard to find anything it rhymes with. In fact, I don't thnk there is a word in English is rhymes with.
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