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Post by KoNeko on Feb 16, 2004 8:58:12 GMT -5
My new favourite word is commandeer. Why? I have no idea, but I heard it and now it's stuck in my head and I keep wanting to go on a mission just so I can say "We're commandeering this." ;D This is the police! We're comandeering your vehicle!! ;D
My word today is: misogynic. Not a very nice word, but I've been using it a lot to refer to the prime minister.
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Post by hermoine on Feb 20, 2004 10:24:06 GMT -5
Hey I met for the first time the word zephyr! had never encountered it before.
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Post by Natz on Feb 21, 2004 14:02:56 GMT -5
I did refer to the govt over here as more concered about profit than lifes. What got me annoyed was that there was this little old lady in devon who refused to pay here council tax because it had gone up by 30% just to make up for the chancellors overspending. One suggestion put forward at question time is that if she can't afford it now she could put it in her will. Even considering to tax people after death is just wrong in my opinion and not very sympathetic. What do you guys think? I am sick of listening to their bs all the time and saying we will listen. Yeah right didn't you see how sceptial we were on question time of your policies and the hutton report. I wonder if everyone stopped paying the council tax would the govt listen I doubt it. If they put an 83 year old in prison i will probably be even more annoyed. I think if anyone annoys me in future i'm just going to refer to it as jim davidson. My word of the day anyway is lemony. I just like the sound of it.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 22, 2004 4:27:53 GMT -5
The word "lemony" somehow reminds me of skipping. Like, you know when you're a kid and it's cool to skip everywhere you go and stuff?
Wow Natz, that's terrible about having to pay taxes after you die! They used to have something like that about suicides here in Australia, so when suicide was illegal, if you were found to have committed suicide, because they couldn't chanrge you once you were dead, they'd take things away from your family and next-of-kin and stuff.
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Post by hermoine on Feb 23, 2004 8:28:20 GMT -5
You pay taxes after you die? That sucks!
My word for today: acquinted. That's how you spell it right? Why? Because, it's got this funny sound and it seems it's real difficult to spell.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 25, 2004 0:36:29 GMT -5
My word of the day today is "Plethora". I'm using it to describe the piles of stuff I need to do before uni starts again. Oh! Also- the "pleth" bit makes you spit if you say it really emphatically.
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Post by hermoine on Feb 25, 2004 11:05:37 GMT -5
My word for today is zealous. That was the word I was looking for like 2 days ago. The one I couldn't remember. I haven't got round to looking up what it means yet, but I will, eventually.
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Post by En on Feb 25, 2004 11:32:40 GMT -5
Zealous is like passionate, only you can be passionately fond of chocolate but you can't be zealously fond of chocolate unless you worship it. It's like... passionate, but only for philosophical or religious reasons. You can believe something zealously. A zealot might preach or live according to the most fundamentalist religious code. Married people can be zealously true to each other, to the point of getting jealous
My word: labyrinthine, as I feel like my head is
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Post by hermoine on Feb 25, 2004 11:38:22 GMT -5
How do you know all this stuff? It's amazing. You're like one really great genius! *tries to remember in what context she found the word zealous*
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Post by En on Feb 25, 2004 11:56:23 GMT -5
*straight face* It's a side effect of aging.
Actually, I used to read the dictionary The other kids in the school would try to pick on me by taking out my bookmark, so I switched from the classroom dictionary (I think it was a Webster's Collegiate) to the unabridged in the school library. Then when I started French, I read my French dictionary (Cassel's) which was actually quite a bit of fun as the editor had thrown in all sorts of weird colloquial phrases ('there is nothing new under the sun' and 'the mustard is rising in my nose'). All this proves is that I always knew I was going to be a writer when I grew up
Anyway, it's not all that special. You're at least bilingual, and your English is way better than my French
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Post by hermoine on Feb 25, 2004 12:28:56 GMT -5
Oh come on. I'm sure you're good in French. I'm sure your future and imparfait is way better than mine.
I sometimes tend to get this sort of craze and read from the encyclopedia. There's some pretty cool stuff.
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Post by hermoine on Mar 18, 2004 12:53:00 GMT -5
I've found my word for today: pom poms(sp?)
We have Olympic Week next week and some girls have to cheer for the girls taking part in the activities. I'm so glad my class was not chosen to be pom pom girls.
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Post by En on Apr 6, 2004 11:14:23 GMT -5
OoOOO... I found a fun one today while reading my favourite science journal, The New Scientist.
Therianthropes. They're all the animal-headed people and otherwise mixed bags -- your horus, minotaur, White Buffalo Woman, etc.
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Post by Rue on Apr 6, 2004 15:38:57 GMT -5
A lot of words I don't know the definition of, even if I can sort of feel what the meaning is... so, this is a word that my Seminar teacher used when responding to a piece of my homework, which I had to look up since I only had a feeling for it. I know he didn't mean it in a mean way, but it was slightly snappy, so I thought it was amusing and am posting it here.
"And your response to the lecture was cursory at best."
*edit* Okay, so I just learned this word from one of my other classes, and it's totally worthy of being a word of the day for me.
Scatological humor: Humor having to do with bodily functions.
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Post by hermoine on Apr 18, 2004 9:43:42 GMT -5
Doing Romeo&Juliet for English Literature, the teacher told us of this thing when the actors seem to be talking to themselves. It's called a soliloquy. I found it a bit hard to say it at first, I couldn't say it, the 'l' kept coming.
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