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Annika
· 20 years, 8 months ago
I love words. I love writing, reading, speaking and learning words. My favorite word is slice. What a sexy word. Slice. "Would you like a slice?" "OUCH! I sliced my foot open!" Yes. I love that word.
Anyone else have a word that they love so much it's almost disgusting?
Andrea Krause
· 20 years, 8 months ago
I tend to like onomatopoeic words in general. Or words that don't get used enough. They must feel neglected. :)
There is an Arthur C. Clark short story, The defenestration of Ermintrude Inch It is where I learned the word. It can be found in the collection Tales from the White Hart.
A girl named Becca
· 20 years, 8 months ago
Because it sounds fun, its meaning is fun, and it has all 5 vowels in alphabetical order (all 6 if you use facetiously).
:) And now I have Paul McCartney's Wanderlust stuck in my head. :)
sheryls
· 20 years, 8 months ago
in high school we had a list of our favorite words, and words we made up. pulchritudinous was always on our list of favorite words. the phrase "eschew obfuscation" is always a fun one too :D side note: once, a non-english-as-a-first-language co-worker said, in reply to pulchritudinous, "What? Poke-her-cuteness?" :D
Sesquidpedalian literally means "a foot and a half."
ped = foot sesqui = and a half. The only other word I've seen wotj the sesqui prefix is "sesquicentennial," the 150th anniversary.
I was obviously writing in Polish
wotj = with
soul groove feline
· 20 years, 8 months ago
my favourites:
embargo ombudsman uncountable dervish diaspora tousled
Nik Chaikin
· 20 years, 8 months ago
Kumquat, i always liked the sound of that quat at the end.
Copious. yes, El Guapo... and speaking of that movie.... BUTTERCUP!
EcowarriorII
· 20 years, 8 months ago
Not neccasarily my favorite word but a right good one and another german word that has no partner in the english language. Roughly translated it means: Feeling good about something bad happening to somebody else
Do you mean Schadenfreude? Yeah, it is a neat word. There's a lovely hiliarious song about it in the Avenue Q musical.
Thats the one. It's just been a while since I have had to recal my german spellings
dirty life & times
· 20 years, 8 months ago
& the rest of the humourous moods: bilious, jaundiced.... um, i always forget the saliva one that means, like, wise?
& bellicose because it sounds like those. & jingoistic because it goes with bellicose.
Ah, but a lot of them have not become accepted into the language, so while they may still be words (and have even, in fact, been translated into other languages including French and German), I think it makes sense to distinguish between them and uncommon-but-recognizeable English words. Maybe?
But how many people need to know a word for it to count? You could place it in with more rare slang (which might be the best place for it) though.
I didn't know the words themselves had been translated. Does anyone have a non-english copy out there? I'm curious.
I do have a couple, somewhere, that were handouts in a linguistics class...I'll see if I can a) dig them up or b) find out where they came from.
Also, I don't think there's a rule about how many people need to know/use a word for it to count, but especially with deliberately-coined (and particularly non-compound) words like the ones in the Jabberwocky, it just feels like they'd need to create a pretty obvious following in order to not always be considered something some guy made up to sound cool. I see your point, but... I dunno. And, I think the difference with slang is that you can identify a group that uses (or used) particular slang words - is there some region or dialect that uses the words from the Jabberwocky? Of course, even with slang you get people arguing that that's not a real word, so maybe we'd be having the same discussion anyway. ;) I think I'm rambling.
Talcott
· 20 years, 8 months ago
"Edit"
It was formed backwards. Once upon a time, there was the word "Editor", which while being a stand-alone word, sounded like "Edit" with the "er" suffix (like "fighter" or "worker"). So people thought that an Editor is one who edits. This is even better, becasue "Edit" is a pretty useful verb (and noun).
Prinut
· 20 years, 8 months ago
Its not that great of a word but its sad how much I love "wicked." Its just a great word (or adjective/adverb if you will) to describe so many things...wicked pissa, wicked awesome, wicked hot, wickedly stupid, wickedly insane...so many wonderful wicked phrases!
siobhan's a londoner
· 20 years, 5 months ago
it's an icelandic multi purpose word. My old tutor told me a really funny story about it, but i think it was all in the telling!
as for english, i like soporific meaning inducing sleep. You must first create an account to post.
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