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Offline Martinus

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What's your favourite word?
I figured this was an interesting question. I've always liked words that roll off the tongue well like 'superfluous' or that have an interesting meanings.

I'd have to say that my favourite word for the last while has been 'lethologica'; the inability to remember the word you're looking for. :)

Other than the obvious colourful, exasperated exclamations do you guys have any favourite words?
« Last Edit: January 12, 2006, 01:02:12 pm by Maeglamor »

 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: What's your favourite word?
I figured this was an interesting question. I've always liked words that roll off the tongue well like 'superfluous' or that have an interesting meanings.

I'd have to say that my favourite word for the last while has been 'lethologica'; the inability to remember the word you're looking for. :)

Other than the obvious colourful, exasperated exclamations do you guys have any favourite words?


That's a rather hard question.

Probably 'discombobulated'.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2006, 01:02:27 pm by Maeglamor »

 

Offline Wild Fragaria

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Re: What's your favourite word?
I like to use big words sometimes, and I have been learning new ones from time to time.  I am not sure if I have a favorite word but I do like fragaria instead of strawberry :)
« Last Edit: January 12, 2006, 01:07:26 pm by Wild Fragaria »

 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Re: What's your favourite word?
"Defenestrate", meaning to throw out a window. I learned it in history when we studied the Defenestration of Prague, and I just love that such a simple act has such an official-sounding term describing it.

"Vapid". It's one of those words that just sounds exactly like what it's describing.

"Contempt". I usually use this word to describe my feelings for art that I hate and everyone else seems to like, such as anything written by Andrew Lloyd Weber, Charles Dickens, Forrest Gump, and those god-awful "paintings" by Thomas Kinkade.

"Bittersweet". A quality possessed by most of the world's most beautiful things.
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Offline Flipside

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Antidisestablishmentarianism?

 

Offline Ransom

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Penumbra, I think. The partial shadow between the light and the dark.

Either that or 'malediction'.

 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: What's your favourite word?
I like to use big words sometimes, and I have been learning new ones from time to time.  I am not sure if I have a favorite words but I do like fragaria instead of strawberry :)

But do you like it wildly?
 Hoho!

Sorry, I'm doped up on Vicks snorty things and cough medicine.  Whee!

 

Offline Martinus

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Antidisestablishmentarianism?
You do know there's a longer, more daft version?

pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism

Crazy. :)


 

Offline Wild Fragaria

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Re: What's your favourite word?
I like to use big words sometimes, and I have been learning new ones from time to time.  I am not sure if I have a favorite words but I do like fragaria instead of strawberry :)

But do you like it wildly?
 Hoho!

Sorry, I'm doped up on Vicks snorty things and cough medicine.  Whee!

I like fruits and strawberry is my beloved favorite.  As for 'wild' fruits, some of them taste nice.  I can't think of how wildly you could eat your strawberry though  :rolleyes:

 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: What's your favourite word?
I like fruits and strawberry is my beloved favorite. As for 'wild' fruits, some of them taste nice. I can't think of how wildly you could eat your strawberry though :rolleyes:

Perhaps with the sharpened ends of fingernails, strapped upside down from the undercarriage of a monkey-piloted rocketplane blasting across the alkali flats at night with no lights on?

 
Re: What's your favourite word?
potato and incumbant are right up there. sassafras(sp?) is pretty cool too (i just remembered it too, i think its a spice) but I ind myself saying awesomesauce pretty often.
Derek Smart is his own oxymoron.

 

Offline BlackDove

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Re: What's your favourite word?
I like to use big words sometimes, and I have been learning new ones from time to time.  I am not sure if I have a favorite words but I do like fragaria instead of strawberry :)

But do you like it wildly?
 Hoho!

Sorry, I'm doped up on Vicks snorty things and cough medicine.  Whee!

I like fruits and strawberry is my beloved favorite. As for 'wild' fruits, some of them taste nice. I can't think of how wildly you could eat your strawberry though :rolleyes:

Yeah, the reason "it" was followed with an italiscized word was becaise he wasn't refering to the strawberries, but we all knew that anyway :p

My word?

Atlantis.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2006, 02:46:55 pm by BlackDove »

 

Offline Carl

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Galopagos

Rutabega

Zanzabar
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Surely Zanzibar?

 

Offline Wild Fragaria

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Re: What's your favourite word?

Yeah, the reason "it" was followed with an italiscized word was becaise he wasn't refering to the strawberries, but we all knew that anyway :p

Now that's interesting  ;7

 

Offline Geezer

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Re: What's your favourite word?
It used to be "phantasmagoria" but now it's "Grandpa"  :yes:
If a man walks in the desert and speaks where no woman can hear, is he still wrong?

 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Sesquipedalian.  Which I was going to register as, but Sesquipedalian beat me to it by three days. :p

 

Offline Wild Fragaria

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Heard of 'Lymphangioleiomyomatosis'?

 

Offline CP5670

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Re: What's your favourite word?
Mine is "anything," because, well, it means anything. :D

 

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Re: What's your favourite word?
What-cha-ma-call-it
Thing-a-ma-gig-er
Thing-a-ma-bob
Some-thin-another
Doo-hick-ey

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