Favorite Words/Stupid Post by manwithpez

I've always liked 'vim'...it's just a fun little word.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 12:20 PM

MALICIOUS

My favorite word has always been "Sinister."

I don't think it strange at all to have a favorite word. Wonder what that says about me? Don't answer that either!

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

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Monday, March 28, 2005 2:52 PM

MIKEYMO

Perfunctory
Juxtaposition
Smock (shout out to the Calvin&Hobbes fans)
Mensch

"Be ashamed to die before you have scored some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann

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Monday, March 28, 2005 3:26 PM

SALTYGOODNESS

What a fun little thread!

I like:
calamity
nestle (not the chocolate/food company!)
celestial
peep

DISLIKE Nougat! And recently am annoyed by "canoodling"

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Monday, March 28, 2005 3:37 PM

EMBERS

my all time favorite is velleity

Ogden Nash even wrote a poem
(unfortunately I can't find the whole poem...)

Quote:

Seated one day at the dictionary I was pretty weary and also pretty ill at ease,
Because a word I had always liked turned out not to be a word at all, and suddenly I found myself among the v's.
And suddenly among the v's I came across a new word which was a word called velleity,
So the new word I found was better than the old word I lost, for which I thank my tutelary deity.

(from—I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1938)

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Monday, March 28, 2005 3:47 PM

MONTANAGIRL

I like dyspnea. (Not the meaning, just the word.)

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 5:21 PM

CALLMEATH

Omphaloskepsis-the spelling may be off, I learned it in 11th grade english, 9 years ago. Means the act of studying one's bellybutton. No, I didn't make it up.

alacrity-just saying fast is so boring

antidisestablishmentarianism-the only good thing about the movie "SLC Punk" was this word, painted on their van. Weren't even any good punk bands.

anon

forte-pronounced "FORT". "Fort-a" is italian for loud. "Fort" is french for strength. I'll fight this one to my grave.

philology-just a coincedence

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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:

I've always liked 'vim'...it's just a fun little word.

And my favorite text editor

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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:31 PM

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Originally posted by BadgersHat:

That being said, I've always liked "Cryptography" despite having later learned that it has nothing to do with the Undead...

No offense, but being a computer type, you made me LOL. Again, no disrespect intended and thanks for the giggle

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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:33 PM

Oh, yes. I like schism. And as an added bonus, it's an awesome Tool track as well

EDIT: Yah Calvin & Hobbes!!!
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Monday, March 28, 2005 8:56 PM

BEATLE

I've always been partial to Pinochle.
And Whittle.
Also Spondulicks.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 9:51 PM

AMALTHEA1

I've always been partial to "perspicacity". You know you're a nerd when one of your favorite words get used on a Star Trek episode, and you get a giant giggle out of it.

AND, also, for those Heinlein fans out there:
floccinaucinihilipilificator

(yes, it's a real word, I've looked it up in the OED back in my college days).

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Monday, March 28, 2005 10:48 PM

SOUPCATCHER

Fun thread

. Hmmmm. It's hard to come up with these out of the blue. That said...

dude
misanthrope
sluggard
squiggly
copacetic
cool
platypus
leporine (actually, pretty much any of the equine, ovine, leonine, bovine, etc. type of words)
anthropomorphic
eh

And a bunch more that aren't jumping into my cranial orb.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:29 AM

Important people don't do field work.

Wow! What inspired choices! I can't believe I didn't put copacetic, alacrity, or smock! Smock, Smock, Smock! Of course, thatweirdgirl had to choose one that hasn't been used in conversation since the 20s, but hey, most of the ones I picked don't end up in conversations at all.
And, people are picking ones based on how they sound, and not what they mean. Well, I advise everyone to look up the word Smegma before adding it to the list.

Hey...here are some more: Dystopian, Dander, Melanin, Equus, Grievious, Italiano (that's for Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda"), Halloween, Baboon, Cycle (as a verb), Disingenuous, Malefactor, Viscous, Pizazz, Effluency, etc...
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say words are good!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:59 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

Apothecary to me these collection of letters epitomises the very meaning of the word. A perfect blend of letters and meaning.

Also a little self centred here but Somnambulist - I just love latin words incorporated into English. It allows you to make up words like : Footsplattambulat - meaning to walk :)

Old words rarely used are very appealing too:

Sciomancy, Necromancer, Hugger Mugger and Soothsayer.

And I always loved the delicate sound ofWraiths

Cheers
The
Somnambulist

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:05 AM

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
Wow! What inspired choices! I can't believe I didn't put copacetic, alacrity, or smock! Smock, Smock, Smock! Of course, thatweirdgirl had to choose one that hasn't been used in conversation since the 20s, but hey, most of the ones I picked don't end up in conversations at all.

sure, pick me out of the long list of word smiths....I only had one word. At least my word means the same happy thing as it looks to mean....unlike smegma, ick.

I also like 'jeepers', 'golly', 'gnarly'.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:17 AM

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Originally posted by manwithpez:

And, people are picking ones based on how they sound, and not what they mean. Well, I advise everyone to look up the word Smegma before adding it to the list.

Hey buddy, we didn't chastise you for your word choice, so I (we) would thank you not to do it to us.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:27 AM

Important people don't do field work.

Hey buddy...I wasn't chastising anyone...just making a joke about the meaning of the word Smegma...and to go along with what thatweirdgirl said...ick.

I once dated a girl who thought that the word Diarrhea sounded pretty...I just couldn't get behind it though...

(Heh heh...diarrhea...behind...HA!)

So, I understand picking words because of how they sound and not what they mean...I wasn't trying to get under your skin, and I apologize if I did...

So, before thatweirdgirl picks anything more dated than 23 Skidoo, I'm out

Deuces!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:37 AM

wha? huh? how did i become the measure?

and what's wrong with verve?

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:44 AM

NIKNAK

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Quote:
Originally posted by BadgersHat:

That being said, I've always liked "Cryptography" despite having later learned that it has nothing to do with the Undead...

No offense, but being a computer type, you made me LOL. Again, no disrespect intended and thanks for the giggle

I remember a documentary about Bletchly Park where they said that they hired a cryptozoologist thinking he must know something about cryptography. Actually a cryptozoologist is more interested in animals whos' existence is questionable. But he was a clever chap so they kept him anyway.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:46 AM

Important people don't do field work.

Oh, measure nothing Weirdess...I was just making a joke...sheesh...buncha sensitive browncoats around here...

Oh, and you forgot to add Moxie to your list

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:55 AM

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
Oh, measure nothing Weirdess...I was just making a joke...sheesh...buncha sensitive browncoats around here...

Oh, and you forgot to add Moxie to your list

oooh! moxie, how could i forget that one? thanks much!

and i'm not sensitive, i'm just kinda impressed that i've managed almost as much thread space as Malicious would if she were in this thread...course she would have hijacked it by now and had at least seven more posts...but not bad considering i'm not her.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:58 AM

NIKNAK

Snowy Owl - I know its two words but I've had the phrase "Snowy owl love-killer" from Wonderfalls in my head all day.
Woo
Flummoxed
Jiffy
Hexaflexagon

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:24 AM

Important people don't do field work.

I'm back from lunch so...More words!

Triskadelaphobia
Dodecahedron
Google (The number, not the website)
Oxymoron
Onomonopiea
Krakatoa
Herpetologist (But, I really, really hate snakes)
Tact
Toothsome
Benign
Academic
Circumspect
Pebble
Phosphorous
Thud
Egyptology

And other, stupider words. Be a hell of a sentence of someone could use all those words in it.

I think I just broke my brain.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:04 AM

XENOCIDE

OOOH Words:

Lackadaisical
Fullerene and/or buckyball
dodecahedron
sestina
artichoke (yummy food with gagging in the name?)
parsimonious
persimmon
sanctimonious
errant
infallible
Shiny

and now some nonwords:

melty (mine today about a crooked fruit popsicle)
Spaceshippy (how the teacher wanted us to make the stage look)

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
http://www.bcpl.net/~wilsonr/farpoint.html

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:13 AM

Important people don't do field work.

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:

...Malicious would if she were in this thread...course she would have hijacked it by now and had at least seven more posts...but not bad considering i'm not her.

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Are you absolutely sure?

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:18 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

Are you absolutely sure?

No...seeing's how she IS in this thread and has NOT done that...I could be wrong.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:22 AM

Important people don't do field work.

So, you're not sure that you are or are not Malicious? Are you sure that you're not sure, or not sure that you aren't?

Actually, I'm not sure of much anymore.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:28 AM

I'm only sure that I'm usually me.

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
Triskadelaphobia

do you mean Triskaidekaphobia? I had a teacher...7th grade I think...that would insist we celebrate Friday the 13th. She would have us decorate the hallways and hang signs predicting doom. She left ‘Triskaidekaphobia’ written in the upper right hand corner of her chalkboard all year long.

other fun words:
curmudgeon
zealous
pizzicato
disheveled
pithy
and.....snarky

this is the absolute ultimate!

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:32 AM

Important people don't do field work.

Yes, that's exactly the word I was going for...and I had it spelled similiar to yours, but I changed it...I mean, it still wasn't right, but yeah...that's the one...

I'm going to sit in the corner and play with my dunce cap now. Bye bye.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:34 AM

CORNCOBB

Ruttin',
Omniarchy,
Epiphany,
Insipid,
Revolutionary,
Pissant,
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,
F**k

"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:45 AM

XENOCIDE

Snarky! How could I forget snarky..
Also, manky (sp?) as an adjective for rotten fruit.
Crotchety.
mescal, mescaline, temescal. Must be careful lest I slide into spanish...so many pretty words in spanish.

Oh! "lest."

tempest
tempestuous!
shrew

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:09 AM

OPTIMUS1998

so many great words!

antepenultimate
acetylsalicylic acid
more to come when my brain's not missing...

...May have been the losing side, Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:11 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Lest is good.

Then there's palaver, first discovered through Firefly (and didn't even notice it until I heard the commentary of Shindig), and then it kept being used in the Dark Tower series.

Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6 (real)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alternaljournal (fictional, travelling through another world)
Unreachable Star: http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:57 AM

OLDENGLANDDRY

Some old-fashioned words I like:

Runcible
Flibbadijibbit
Jackanapes
Moustaschios

And some from my local dialect:

Wopse (meaning wasp)
Dumbledore (meaning Bumblebee. No, J.K. Rowling didnt make it up)
Adle-pated (meaning crazy)

And, of course, my all time favourite word:

Sausauges.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:32 PM

MELEAUX

My top 3
1) Serendipity
2) Simultaneously
3) Sanguine- means cheerful, confident, optimistic and bloody?
Hey anybody intereseted in anagrams? My nome is an anagram for In a nearby elm . How cool is that? A gold star to the person who can figure out what my name is.

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:46 PM

CHRISISALL

Whata strange thread...

Dystopic (but somnabulist already covered that one)
Juxtapose
Dichotomy
Omega
Chie-ee' chu (Klingon, not a sneeze)

Chrisisall

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:04 PM

CHRISISALL

Annabel-myri is it?
If so, a singular and beautiful name.
If not,
well... I'm a visual person, not a word person (he said defensively)

Chrisisall

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:52 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Not to be pedantic or anything, but I think this is interesting so I’m going to explain how the rather perplexing definition of sanguine emerged.

The term sanguine comes from the Latin word sanguineous, which means ‘bloody.’

In Late Medieval Europe, a philosophy emerged that sought to describe a person’s disposition as a mixture of four internal fluids: blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy. Each fluid was thought to cause a certain personality characteristic, and blood was thought to be a vehicle for cheerfulness. So a person who was very cheerful, hopeful or brave was thought to have an abundance of blood and was therefore referred to as “bloody.” But since this was a scholarly philosophy, they preferred to refer to these terms in Latin. As such certain Latin terms have made it into English as a result of this philosophy. Sanguine is only one of them. Here are a few more that you might be surprised to see:

Temperament. Guess what Latin word this comes from. “Mixture.” (temperare : “to mix”)

Humor: In Latin, Humorus means “fluid” or “moisture.”

This philosophy of the temperaments of humor is quite similar to Chinese and Indian philosophies which are sometimes referred to as “Eastern Medicine.” There is a whole philosophy of “Western Medicine,” as it were, that has, to a large extent, vanished and left us with these odd definitions.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:57 PM

CALLMEATH

I'm guessing Emily. Don't know 'bout your last name, though. Branan? Barnan? Branna? Hey, your name could be Breanna! I always liked that one.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:39 PM

MALICIOUS

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
...i'm just kinda impressed that i've managed almost as much thread space as Malicious would if she were in this thread...course she would have hijacked it by now and had at least seven more posts...but not bad considering i'm not her.

I've been TRYING to be a good non-thread-hijacking girl! Typical. No props for the Mal-Meister.

Mal-licious

I think I will add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:07 PM

Great thread. I love words.

Palimpsest: Describes a piece of paper that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:28 PM

CHRISISALL

antidisestablishmentarinism

but did I spell it correctly...?

Chrisisall

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:08 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleu
cylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcyste
inylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglu
taminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminyl
valyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylg
lycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolyl
leucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparagi
nylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreony
lthreonylalanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalan
ylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparagi
nylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthre
onylphenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylala
nylserine

Actual chemical name of a type of virus. Thought to be the longest word to have every appeared in print.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:24 PM

MONTANAGIRL

Wow, and I thought German was bad about compounding words.

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:47 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Given the size of some proteins and the way in which organic chemical names are derived, in theory one could have chemical names with literally millions of letters. At some point the rigid specificity of science is pitted against the astronomical complexity of nature, and one of them is going to lose.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:44 AM