Leguminocomptiferous - Of, or appertaining to, the bean-counters.
I like accountants. Oh yes. Really, I do.
Counterintuitive - it just is.
Often used as a pejorative term, as in bad user interfaces on software; but the term encapsulates the delight in discovering that things really don't work the way that you thought they 'ought' to.
Spiral - partly because it's so foreign.
Do you get phases where a particular word in common usage sounds alien and unfamiliar? Maybe 'spiral' is having that kind of day. Or maybe it really is a strange and alien interloper from the world of mathematics. I like it for the associations, too: descent spiral (yay! astrogation!); cubic spiral (railway curves and road layouts); spiralling out of control; spider webs, fractals, the three-dimensional fibonacci series on Romanesca cauliflowers.
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Date: 2006-02-14 03:48 pm (UTC)Leguminocomptiferous - Of, or appertaining to, the bean-counters.
I like accountants. Oh yes. Really, I do.
Counterintuitive - it just is.
Often used as a pejorative term, as in bad user interfaces on software; but the term encapsulates the delight in discovering that things really don't work the way that you thought they 'ought' to.
Spiral - partly because it's so foreign.
Do you get phases where a particular word in common usage sounds alien and unfamiliar? Maybe 'spiral' is having that kind of day. Or maybe it really is a strange and alien interloper from the world of mathematics. I like it for the associations, too: descent spiral (yay! astrogation!); cubic spiral (railway curves and road layouts); spiralling out of control; spider webs, fractals, the three-dimensional fibonacci series on Romanesca cauliflowers.
I am an geek. But I love words.