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[devi]

ARGH AM INCAPABLE OF DOING ANY WORK WHATSOEVER.

I need help to get enthused about words. What's your current favourite word and why do you like it?

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[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Sorry? Words don't have to be weird to be beautiful.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

streamlined - it's not my favourite word, but it's currently the word for the day. mostly because I'm writing a lecture about things like this (http://www.metmuseum.org/special/americanmodern/meatslicer.r.htm)

[twistedlilkitty.livejournal.com]

Dongle!

as in bluetooth Dongle!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I expect it would piss off classicists, but I like it.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I like the word “beige” even though I dislike the colour to which it refers. Just the sound of it really, the zh bit at the end especially; “bay” doesn’t do it for me.

[mr_magicfingers]

and there's me thinking it's a phobia of robotic dogs. Learn something new every day.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I can't say dongle without sniggering, yeah.

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

I love the word 'palimpcest' and all it implies too.

Splink!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Why? Oh... no reason! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690160.stm)

[mooism.livejournal.com]

“Abbreviated”? But only five syllables.

[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

My favourite word is paneity, which means 'the state of being bread'. I like it because it is utterly ridiculous and has no real applicable use. It exists simply because it can.

-x-

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

So we can both gaze adoringly at gorgeous words?

[kensson.livejournal.com]

German is like that. Someone once suggested that it was created by an overly-pedantic two-year-old whose parents had died after teaching him all the one-syllable words. I was just thinking about this because I saw a thimble, which is Fingerhut (finger-hat) in German.

I think Schadenfreude means, literally, shame-happiness.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I shall spend the next few minutes pondering the degree of paneity of my toasted bagel, then.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

There ought to be a word for that.

[nja.livejournal.com]

"Autonomy". "Monotony" is a horrible word, "Autonomy" is a good one.

[randalf.livejournal.com]

"punnet". It seems terribly English, for some reason.

"mellifluous". It flows as well as its meaning. :)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Roll the word dastardly around your parietal lobes. Put on your best Vincent Price expression and denounce 'This dastardly act...'

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Romanesca cauliflowers have to be the world's most pleasing vegetable for geometry-geeks, and people like me who just find spirals and Fibbionaci sequences incredibly cool in an undefinable way.

Tasty, too.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

“Desemantication”?

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

German for 'nipple': Brustwart (breast wart). Mmm, sexy.

The pained expression of an aristocrat

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Then we need the word eupaneity: the state of, or pursuit after, being well-bread.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

*grins* That's the idea.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

No. Sounds like spitting out something distasteful. And I've always seen 'semantics' as applying to sentences rather than to an individual words.

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

Phastasmagoria

It is both a wonderful word to roll off the tongue, and it descrbibes an involving and altering experience

I'd imagine sections of the Trans-Siberianm journey verged on it...