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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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 Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: Two new words I learnt today |
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Bizarrerie: oddity, quirk. May be only a French word.
Temerity: fearless daring
Thank you, Korean students, for teaching me words in my own language that nobody would ever use.
EDIT: A third: complaisant: it means cheerfully helpful |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:00 am Post subject: |
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Temerity (boldness) is a good word, but for some reason it sounds too "timid" to me to mean the opposite of timidness!
Here's another one: celerity. I think it means "movement with a quick, steady and confident pace" or something like that. To me it just sounds like "celery." Nobody ever uses it anyway. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:49 am Post subject: Re: Two new words I learnt today |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Bizarrerie: oddity, quirk. May be only a French word.
Temerity: fearless daring
Thank you, Korean students, for teaching me words in my own language that nobody would ever use.
EDIT: A third: complaisant: it means cheerfully helpful |
You're being facetious. How could you not know temerity...you live in Korea, after all. 
PS. http://www.wordorigins.org/Words/LetterB/bizarre.html
I've used it in French to describe someone's weird actions. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
Temerity (boldness) is a good word, but for some reason it sounds too "timid" to me to mean the opposite of timidness!
Here's another one: celerity. I think it means "movement with a quick, steady and confident pace" or something like that. To me it just sounds like "celery." Nobody ever uses it anyway. |
Celerity is similar to alacrity. Both are haste, though celerity is faster. If you understand that, then, let's face it, we are both nerds.
Btw, I've heard temerity a lot. Don't think I've ever used it myself, though. |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Celerity is similar to alacrity. Both are haste, though celerity is faster. If you understand that, then, let's face it, we are both nerds. |
My understanding of alacrity and celerity is fairly different, in that celerity refers to a rate (or speed, if you will) of movement or rapidity, whereas alacrity implies speed and, moreover, an emotional state of ardor.*
* I may be mistaken in my understanding, and if so, well I guess I'm a moron. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| Maserial wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| Celerity is similar to alacrity. Both are haste, though celerity is faster. If you understand that, then, let's face it, we are both nerds. |
My understanding of alacrity and celerity is fairly different, in that celerity refers to a rate (or speed, if you will) of movement or rapidity, whereas alacrity implies speed and, moreover, an emotional state of ardor.*
* I may be mistaken in my understanding, and if so, well I guess I'm a moron. |
I'm afraid it gets much, much nerdier than what you've said above. Click for the truth! |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| jajdude wrote: |
Temerity (boldness) is a good word, but for some reason it sounds too "timid" to me to mean the opposite of timidness!
Here's another one: celerity. I think it means "movement with a quick, steady and confident pace" or something like that. To me it just sounds like "celery." Nobody ever uses it anyway. |
Celerity is similar to alacrity. Both are haste, though celerity is faster. If you understand that, then, let's face it, we are both nerds.
Btw, I've heard temerity a lot. Don't think I've ever used it myself, though. |
Yah, but my mom thinks I'm cool. 
Actually I think an interest in words is cool.
celerity \suh-LAIR-uh-tee\, noun:
Rapidity of motion or action; quickness; swiftness.
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/03/03.html |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Both celerity and alacrity mean "with speed" but I've always thought that alacrily has more to do with a willingness to do something.
edit: Geesh! Where ELSE could you find a debate about alacrity and celerity except here on Dave's!  |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Yeah okay I got another EverQuest-inspired couplet for you then:
penurious vs. parsimonious
Knock yourselves out. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
Yeah okay I got another EverQuest-inspired couplet for you then:
penurious vs. parsimonious
Knock yourselves out. |
Since this is a vocabulary thread, I might ask well ask-- doesn't a "couplet" refer to two rhyming lines, not simply a pair of things?
If so, please accept proferred spanking. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
Yeah okay I got another EverQuest-inspired couplet for you then:
penurious vs. parsimonious
Knock yourselves out. |
Since this is a vocabulary thread, I might ask well ask-- doesn't a "couplet" refer to two rhyming lines, not simply a pair of things?
If so, please accept proferred spanking. |
Not into S&M so I'm gonna plead not guilty by way of number 2. Whew. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
Yeah okay I got another EverQuest-inspired couplet for you then:
penurious vs. parsimonious
Knock yourselves out. |
Since this is a vocabulary thread, I might ask well ask-- doesn't a "couplet" refer to two rhyming lines, not simply a pair of things?
If so, please accept proferred spanking. |
Not into S&M so I'm gonna plead not guilty by way of number 2. Whew. |
I consider myself pretty open-minded, but I'm not into "number 2" (especially when spankings are involved.) |
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