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 Sep 24 2010, 04:43 AM
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 I could have written a short novel by this point  Group: Established Members Posts: 1,579 Joined: 4-August 08 Member No.: 12,759 Gender: Secret  |
..So this will either be very lame or very cool depending on your linguistic interests. Besides, I have a weekly thread quota to meet (how else will I feed the children?), so you will get random things I feel are awesome.
Like the word bombastic! Bombastic - noun - high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people Okay, not that cool, but put it into the context of fluffing essays. If you don't pull off an essay successfully, you're said to 'bomb' it, but throw in some grandiloquent words and craftily weave sentences together, and you intermingle a would-be bomb with the guise of fantastic to get, bombastic! ... Yeah. I thought it was cool.. *nervously clicks post button* -------------------- Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget God. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~Lawrence Krauss
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Sep 24 2010, 05:27 AM
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 Lord of the Keys Group: Established Members Posts: 2,197 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Wonderful-smelling dwelling in French-Canada Member No.: 1,329 Gender: Female |
Apotheosis.
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Sep 24 2010, 01:14 PM
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 NyanNyanNyan Group: Established Members Posts: 2,157 Joined: 28-March 03 From: Dundee Member No.: 191 Gender: Male |
I have lots of words I enjoy saying aloud. An old favourite is the rather obvious "Onomatopoeia", but I also enjoy the name "Farquhar". I'll come back and add others as I remember them
 Edit: Ooh! "Whedonism", since it pretty much is one itself. -------------------- When, will I, will I be famous?
I CAN'T ANSWER THAT, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT. -Tara and DACE sing is available from DACETRON ltd. |
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Sep 24 2010, 03:47 PM
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 Kiefer > Jason Group: Admin Posts: 9,698 Joined: 26-February 03 From: UK Member No.: 51 Gender: Female |
QUOTE (Yannick @ Sep 23 2010, 09:43 PM)  ..So this will either be very lame or very cool depending on your linguistic interests. Besides, I have a weekly thread quota to meet (how else will I feed the children?), so you will get random things I feel are awesome. Like the word bombastic! Bombastic - noun - high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people Okay, not that cool, but put it into the context of fluffing essays. If you don't pull off an essay successfully, you're said to 'bomb' it, but throw in some grandiloquent words and craftily weave sentences together, and you intermingle a would-be bomb with the guise of fantastic to get, bombastic! ... Yeah. I thought it was cool.. *nervously clicks post button* Ahhh now I have the song Mr. Bombastic going through my head! Thanks.  I like the word piffle. It's fun to say and it means nonsense. --------------------  Being Pimped By Aries Since 2003 |
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Sep 25 2010, 04:31 AM
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Lord of the Keys Group: Established Members Posts: 2,197 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Wonderful-smelling dwelling in French-Canada Member No.: 1,329 Gender: Female |
Se enmudecer. To make (oneself) fall silent.
Isn't that a useful word? -------------------- can I kiss your dopamine? In a way I wonder if she's living in a magazine |
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Sep 25 2010, 02:38 PM
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 Faeries don't bite we just nibble a bit! Group: Moderators Posts: 1,695 Joined: 16-August 03 From: A town called Malice, England, The world Member No.: 535 Gender: Female |
One of my favourites at the minute is antithesis. I love it. And Oxymoron. And Juxtaposition. Of course I love making my own words up. Adding -idge to anything makes it that much more brilliant.
-------------------- If life hands you a lemon make lemonade, lace it with cyanide and then pass it around. What can I say I'm a revenge type of gal!!! Ryn
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Sep 25 2010, 03:41 PM
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 : P> Group: Moderators Posts: 2,352 Joined: 5-March 04 From: Derby Member No.: 991 Gender: Secret |
'Hippopottomonstrosequiptaliaphobia' is a fun one.
As is 'ostensibly'. -------------------- I am Candice's asw emo e-husband, real life actual husband and all around awesome person, Funked)Out_Frogg's e-paramour. Snugglebum's harem slave. Candice and gothictheysay are my e-pimps.
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Sep 25 2010, 04:19 PM
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NyanNyanNyan Group: Established Members Posts: 2,157 Joined: 28-March 03 From: Dundee Member No.: 191 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (moop @ Sep 25 2010, 04:41 PM) 'Hippopottomonstrosequiptaliaphobia' is a fun one. As is 'ostensibly'. Is that an irrational fear of long words? -------------------- When, will I, will I be famous?
I CAN'T ANSWER THAT, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT. -Tara and DACE sing is available from DACETRON ltd. |
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Sep 25 2010, 08:35 PM
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 living in your basement, eating your candy hearts Group: Established Members Posts: 3,418 Joined: 23-February 04 From: cloud cuckoo land Member No.: 959 Gender: Female |
Phantasmagoric comes to mind first for me. I love words, and I love that English has sooo many of them.
-------------------- Being corrupted by candice since 2004
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Sep 26 2010, 10:13 AM
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: P> Group: Moderators Posts: 2,352 Joined: 5-March 04 From: Derby Member No.: 991 Gender: Secret |
QUOTE (Tarantio @ Sep 25 2010, 05:19 PM) QUOTE (moop @ Sep 25 2010, 04:41 PM) 'Hippopottomonstrosequiptaliaphobia' is a fun one. As is 'ostensibly'. Is that an irrational fear of long words? Yep. Someone clearly has a mean streak. -------------------- I am Candice's asw emo e-husband, real life actual husband and all around awesome person, Funked)Out_Frogg's e-paramour. Snugglebum's harem slave. Candice and gothictheysay are my e-pimps.
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Sep 26 2010, 04:07 PM
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Kiefer > Jason Group: Admin Posts: 9,698 Joined: 26-February 03 From: UK Member No.: 51 Gender: Female |
pedantic
1. ostentatious in one's learning. 2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching. obsequious (learned this one from a they might be giants song.  )1. characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow. 2. servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants. 3. obedient; dutiful. -------------------- Being Pimped By Aries Since 2003 |
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