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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]

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.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I have a love of spirals too, for many of the same reasons.

But yes, definitely, sometimes a common word gets disconnected from its meaning in my head and spends several days sounding like a silly, meaningless series of sounds. Especially when I've been using it a lot.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

There ought to be a word for that.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

“Desemantication”?

[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.

[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.

[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.