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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: BP on June 26, 2008, 05:38:42 AM
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I'm going to get right in and unleash my feelings about the word "bludgeon."
Bludgeon... it's so simple, yet refined and mature...
Its definition and connotation just leak from its lettering and sound like he savory liquids from a hamburger. Bludgeon. The presence of the "udge" really add the oomph to it. It sounds fierce. It sounds brutal. But at the same time, you can look at it and tell that it's not all beatings and violence. Even when not physically harmed, a villain can be bludgeoned with justice. A mother bludgeons her children with love. A liar will bludgeon you with insincerity.
Bludgeon... it's the best word in the English language.
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I really like the word the, just because speech would be insanely difficult without it. I also like the term "albeit" because it's awesome and confuses less educated people when you use it, even though it simply means "all be it."
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Beeftip and Dopefish are my favorites.
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My favorite word is "ersatz".
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I really like "rhythm" and "beetle."
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Disdainful really caught my eye the first time I saw it.
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My favorite word is "ersatz".
ooooh, good choice.
I like "rebuke" myself.
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"Philanthropy" is a really nice word too. As is "prestidigitation."
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My favorite words are not permitted to be posted in a family forum.
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The presence of the "udge" really add the oomph to it. It sounds fierce. It sounds brutal. But at the same time, you can look at it and tell that it's not all beatings and violence.
Curmudgeon
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Here are some of my favorite words:
exsanguination
circumlocution
esoteric
contrition
pièce de résistance
raison d'être
apocryphal
raconteur
reprobates
pronate
supinate
floccinaucinihilipilification
piebald
defenestrate
bon mots
chiaroscuro
predilection
widdershins
grok
Brobdingnagian
exegesis
apheresis
panoply
pyritic
prestidigitation
temerity
pauciloquent
euphonious
auscultation
uniterable
insouciant
iconoclast
mendacious
interlocutor
solipsistic
execrable
tchotchke
onanist
ambit
décolletage
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I suppose this thread isn't about intrinsically funny words, but "oats" or words ending with said series of letter crack me up for some reason (especially when said alone).
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Electric, doldrum, and aquatic.
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Eclectic and cacophony are nice.
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"Eccentric", "concentration", and "xylophone" are some more of my favourites.
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And centripetal. That's just fun.
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Don't forget penile!
What?
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Pianist.
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Peanut.
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Pianist.
"For the last time, I do not want to hear the one about the twelve-inch pianist!
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nasturtium
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EGO or this > ...
mwahahahahaahhah!
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Spigot
It just sounds funny when you say it like thspigot
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I keep a list:
cantankerous
lackadaisical
squeeze
guffaw
ostentatious - it means "showy", and it sounds that way too!
logorrhea - means "excessive/often incoherent talkativeness"; like verbal diarrhea!
loquaicious- I think this word means "talkative"
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loquaicious- I think this word means "talkative"
That would make sense, since the spellbook in Wario Ware Wii is called the Loquaicious Spellbook (Ashley's Stage).
I have a few words that I really like. Here they are in no particular order..
Particular
Cliche'
Inept
Atomic
Castle (a bit weird, I know..)
Magician
Any word that involves a sound effect (boing, zap, pow, ect..)
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Moderator.
:P
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Onomatopoeia
Periwinkle
Mollusc
More to come.
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My favorite English words are salami, pork and beef.
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Yesterday I was reminded of a childhood favorite.
Smithereens.
I learned this word from the Thomas the Tank Engine show, which I absolutely loved when I was a little kid (yep, I was little once O_o). Oftentimes, things on that show got blown to smithereens. That might be why I love explosions so much today... anyway, smithereens BLEEDS its meaning. When I hear "smithereens" my brain is bludgeoned with the image of debris of all kinds of things fluttering down in the light breeze, hindered in its journey to the earth by the impish tendencies of air resistance. You cannot even have a single smithereen. Firefox's spell check says no. You can only have upwards of millions upon billions of...
S m i t h e r e e n s.
I. Will.
Bludgeon this scorpion to smithereens. Good day.
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Thomas the Tank Engine
I knew I wasn't the only one! Speaking of which... it was fun when George Carlin narrated.
There a couple of words that are my favorites:
supercalifragilisticebialidocious (Firefox must hate Marry Poppins)
paing (Sound effects are fun... even though they aren't real words.)
smithereens (Now that BP mentioned it, I do recall and the narrators in Thomas saying it... it's terrible that these words aren't commonly used.)
clique (Because I can actually fool people when I use it in a conversation.)
nucular (Partially because of "The Simpsons" and the new Indiana Jones.)
superfluous (I don't care that you don't use this once you get out of 9th grade... it's fun.)
aristocats (I wish I remembered that song they sang...)
That's all I can think of... even though a lot of those words probably aren't legitimate... wait, that's a good one!
-Legitimate
There, I'm done.
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Flabbergasted.
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I knew I wasn't the only one! Speaking of which... it was fun when George Carlin narrated.
There a couple of words that are my favorites:
supercalifragilisticebialidocious (Firefox must hate Marry Poppins)
You mean supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Also, Mary.
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I forgot to mention Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Good Old New Zealand.
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You mean supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Also, Mary.
Crap. I've been doing it wrong the whole time.
Oh well, better late than never! Anyhow, I haven't really seen Mary Poppins in a while... and I'm usually pretty terrible with names. Specifically minor spelling differences.
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I rather like "crwth".
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I liked defenestration before it was cool. Now everyone knows it, and it's not as fun anymore.
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Remember "masticate"?
You can use my list if you want to be cool again, CE7.
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Rada