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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| carpetdope wrote: |
| fisticuffs - It brings a level of civility to any dustup. |
Used by sportscasters quite often. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I think hence, whence, & thence are (were) a nifty set of adverbs. |
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jinks
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: Formerly: Lower North Island
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I think utilitarian means more than just 'useful'. A utilitarian object is designed to be useful with no regard for its beauty.
I'd like to use the pronoun 'one', but it sounds so posh and queenly that no one uses it any longer. I think that saying 'you' instead sounds too accusatory. |
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MyNameIsNobody
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
Location: Here
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:10 am Post subject: Thrice and other great words you don't use... but want to! |
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| CALVINW33 wrote: |
| Defenestrate - It just rolls of the tongue. I wish I had more opportunities to both use the word and perform the action. |
I had a friend defenestrate himself from the second floor. Drunk = lost sense of space and distance. Oddly enough, he is one of the smartest people I know.
Full stop and dungarees are words I gave up in childhood. In first grade, I remember being in the playground and using both of these in front of the other kids. It took me a solid minute in both cases to figure out the American equivalent, period and jeans. I definitely stopped trusting my own English for a while, and I used to think many of the words my parents used were nonsense words (sometimes I still do).
Rigamarole is a word that I always liked the sound of, but I didn't know it was real until I read it in Lolita. I also thought botheration was fake too.
Poo and poop are words that I am also careful with. For me, poo is the solid waste product, and poop is the gas. Even in college, my friends made fun of the difference.
I still dream of the day I can use words and spell the way I want to without a teacher/professor telling me I'm wrong and taking points off or a friend looking at me like what the what. Maybe when I become less self-conscious? |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:56 am Post subject: |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| carpetdope wrote: |
| Working in SK, it's all about the vodeodo. |
Where I come from, vodeeodo is about doing the horizontal bop, i.e. getting some.
Anyhoo... the word I've found myself using lately is 'unbeknownst'. Although I rarely hear it spoken. |
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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| CALVINW33 wrote: |
| Defenestrate - It just rolls of the tongue. I wish I had more opportunities to both use the word and perform the action. |
Well I often threaten to defenestrate my students... |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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fishy
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:23 am Post subject: |
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| penultimate |
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Marzipoo
Joined: 10 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Poignant.
I just cannot bring myself to use that word, but I want to so bad! |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:24 am Post subject: |
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'fair' meaning beautiful
'gay' meaning happy
'pray' meaning please, and 'please' as a verb (I please to)
'Heaven smile upon thee!' as an everyday greeting
Constructions like "I like it not," or "Pray, fair lady, let us please to dwell on more gayer things."
Also, tricorner hats, and the latitude to spell words however I like. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| "Moist" because it reminds women of their shameful parts. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
| "Moist" because it reminds women of their shameful parts. |
Not until I've discombobulated them with my..... deliciousness.
(I admit, I didn't know the latter word until I moved to Korea) |
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