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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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[hairyears.livejournal.com]

BORK
It just works. 'The Northern Line is borked' is so much more satisfying than 'buggered', 'knackered', or 'subject to minor delays due to a signal failure in the Camden area'.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Hopefully martling will be soon posting some photographs of a particularly baroque specimen that ewtikins had lying around in an urban smallholding she manages for a friend on holiday.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Yes! I discovered 'perseveration' just about a week before you posted your thing about it and had been thinking it was wonderful. I have had many perseverations.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it also imply things rushing towards you? That makes it even more relevant.

Re: The pained expression of an aristocrat

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oy vey...

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

compendious?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I love that the word callipygean exists.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

*blink* Streamlined, but kinda scary.

Re: Splink!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Splink is a cute word, but oh my gosh. I for "if"? N for "no"? What were they thinking?

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

Shame-happiness: no. "Schaden" means damage, "Freude" means joy.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. And 'incandescent'.

[voiceofsauron.livejournal.com]

how about floccinaucinihilipilification.

noun: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial

If only because I find it hard to believe there is such a word.

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

... although I like the analogy.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Do you not prefer "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian"? Or is that just six syllables TOO far?

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Does it have to be English? I'm quite fond of nani nani - Japanese for blah blah blah.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I don't have a favourite word. They are all my children and I love them equally.

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I link to this?

In return I offer

fluich - wet in Scots Gaelic
doldrums
tinkunakunakama - until we next meet, in kolla quechua

[sweet-pickles.livejournal.com]

persnickety -- I just love the way it rolls off your tongue. It tends to have a negative connotation, but honestly I don't see anything wrong with going after and expecting what you like. You only live once (well, in some theories anyway).

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Not at all, go ahead!

In Irish 'drenched' is 'fliuch baite' - drowned wet.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I've never seen that out of the context of the phrase "oh noes! I borked it!"

[kensson.livejournal.com]

That makes even more sense. Thanks for the correction.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Street.

I tried to think of the ordinariest word around me, Latin but not Latinate, a common monosyllable. Yet it has so much more interest than these articulated juggernauts of words.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

By the way, hello, Montana person.

[kensson.livejournal.com]

Punnet is good. It looks like it ought to be a small play on words but instead holds strawberries. Win-win.

[kensson.livejournal.com]

Oh, um, howdy! People actually say howdy here, and mean it.