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Post by aurora on Nov 30, 2003 11:32:01 GMT -5
Aristocracy, Crisp, Catholicism, Cracked Peppercorn
There's something about "c" words that just make me want to repeat them. And french words with the rolling r's, but, alas, I can't roll my r's and sound like I'm trying to buzz or something strange, so I can't repeat those myself
...forgive my ignorance, but what does "chock-a-block" mean, Calantha?
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Post by Calantha on Nov 30, 2003 13:03:08 GMT -5
Maybe chock-a-block (or chockablock) are weird words that my family just uses? It's like...full or jammed...like cars in traffic or the brownies were chockablock with walnuts...
I like crispy sounding words as well...words that crackle.
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Post by Ceridwen on Dec 1, 2003 3:32:44 GMT -5
Yeah, chockablock means packed full of something. We use it here, too, Cal. Or 'chockers' for short. Like 'The supermarket was chockers today!' Freaky, but true. Yeah, I work by the sea. It's not so much fun during an Irish winter , but I love it anyway. It's a great place to take your lunchtime walk - very calming. Today the sounds in my head are: derelict, palindrome and (because of some anthropology stuff I'm reading) pangolin - such a great sound!
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Post by En on Dec 2, 2003 13:15:01 GMT -5
*whacked by the mighty hammer of synchronicity yet again*
I was going to put the lyrics to a song I recently discovered up in WTCH... because of this part:
and swallows were tumbling over our heads they were falling by turns by turns rising again seamlessly tracing the profile of night in a balance of meaning and motion and light and there on the water passing below i saw our bodies reflected as a perfect palindrome
"highway and the moon" -- Jeffrey Foucault
Also au sujet des palindromes... my extremely dorky friend Hermia hosted a palindrome party for New Year's 2002
The point being that it's an awesome word. Cheers ;D
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Post by fico the fur on Dec 2, 2003 20:05:36 GMT -5
The word in my head tonight is "entropy". And as soon as I think that, I hear a quote in my head, in a man's voice. He sounds slightly old, but then you realize that it's really just experience which makes him sound older. He's really only in his mid-thirties or there-abouts. And he says "entropy... which is the predictable deterioration when the creative energy ceases." It's said with a slight accent. And I dunno. That quote has a long history with me, so it makes me feel good, even though it isn't the type of thing that should.
ha! And something completely off-topic but oh-so-funny. So Nialle posted that quote, right? And it reminded me of something hilarious. The high-speed velocity of an unladen swallow (European, naturally) is 24 miles per hour. This is proven here.
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Post by En on Dec 3, 2003 11:56:24 GMT -5
Um, Gen, no matter how much I argue with my monitor, I can't read that font colour unless I highlight it.
So I'm going through some medical records in an estate claim... and I stumbled across the word "phlebotomy." Doesn't that just sound nasty?
[tangent]"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -- The Wiz[/tangent]
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Post by En on Dec 3, 2003 15:31:45 GMT -5
Ahaha! I was so there! Every time I think of the word "phlegm" I think of Anne Shirley because of the scene where she saves Diana's little sister with ipecac
I knew a girl who used to run round with those little primary-coloured circular price-label stickers -- she'd write a word on about 100 of them and go stick them on people. Stuff like "idiolect" and "mandible" and so forth.
Another fun word exercise: to get people to write out the lyrics to "Louie Louie." You can find out a ton about people from what they think the words to a confusing song are.
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Post by Calantha on Dec 3, 2003 22:37:45 GMT -5
Gen...imperfect form? My Spanish teacher was from Argentina and would pronounce double ll's with a cha sound...did that get on my nerves or what...
Um...I think all I know is Louie Louie...blah blah blah...we gotta...go now? That's all I know and that isn't much and more than likely is incorrect *is curious now as to what the lyrics really are*
Today I like autological...I like how it comes off...maybe because I like "auto" in general...
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Post by Ceridwen on Dec 4, 2003 3:45:41 GMT -5
*scans brain* I always thought Louie Louie went: 'Louie Louie, O baby, let's work things out...' that's the only bit I was ever able to (as I thought) make sense of. Synchronicity, eh? It never ceases to amaze me, either. And isn't it a pretty word, even in its own right? *looks at it proudly* You know what the coolest sound I have ever heard is - the Dutch for 'dragon'. It's 'Draak' - such a vampirish, throaty, rolling 'r' sound... makes me shiver. ;D Today I also like Pertinacious. It's a perky sort of word, y'know, a word that might wear purple and spike its hair, and not care what other words thought of her. *takes hat off, to salute the Word*
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Post by En on Dec 4, 2003 10:37:19 GMT -5
It's weird, I've been on a U2 kick lately and finding out exactly how many words I'd been singing something else to for the past decade I tend to hear stuff that's more, I dunno, metaphysical than what's actually being said -- more philosophically convoluted -- and I also tend to hear longer words, probably because those are words I use a lot.
I'm having a "looking for eens" day. My chums and I in college had this game where we looked for three-syllable phrases that rhymed with "Nazarene" and it got pretty silly... ovaltine, tangerine, travertine, but also Mr. Clean, sweaty sheen, and soup tureen ;D
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Post by Ceridwen on Dec 4, 2003 10:39:23 GMT -5
Having an REM moment:
'I'm Martin Sheen..I'm Steve McQueen...I'm Jimmy Dean..'
Heehee. ;D
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Post by aurora on Dec 4, 2003 15:41:09 GMT -5
So when I posted in here first, those were just some sounds I knew I liked but I've never made a specific purpose of finding those Words.
Blast you
I've been on the look-out for Words all the time now and I've developed the bad habit of suddenly exclaiming them when I come across them in a book or hear them in conversation. I got it under control, but not completely. I ended up spending 5 minutes today mouthing "choooo-se, cha-ooze, ch-ooze..." and other different ways to pronouce "choose" before I realized that I was doing it in the middle of class and people were watching (and laughing) Ah well, it's a good Word...
Speaking of Dutch Words... I've never been able to find a German Word that I like. Are there any? The whole gutteral-sounding-ness of them is just... blech.
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Post by En on Dec 4, 2003 16:04:13 GMT -5
Sure there are. I don't know terribly much German, but my friend Lizard used to sing the loveliest song, rolled on the tongue like drops of honey... granted, it was about a guy who ate his next-door-neighbour's daughter...
*whispers* And don't you EVER tell anyone, but I do like the word "liebchen." The first vowel sound is a long E and the "ch" is that breathy sound from the back of the throat, like in "Chanukah." *resumes looking tough and impassive like usual*
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Post by Ceridwen on Dec 5, 2003 11:09:16 GMT -5
I actually like the German 'augen' for 'eyes'. I think it's a nice sound. *shrugs*
Today's word is : proliferate.
A nice stretchy kinda word.
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