lord_casek Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 i like the cunning linguists. dichotomy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 triptych Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 =5 haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuse=--action Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Triskadecaphobia Fancy for "fear of 13." A pretty common word actually. Sesquipidalian, a word that definitely belongs in this thread. -fuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerm4 Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 ANALSACKSLUDGE is the only word you need to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuse=--action Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Septuagenarian is a good word to keep in your vocabulary. Used to refer to a person in their 70s, but is commonly used to refer to persons of old age in general. -fuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerm4 Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 This anti-tubular thread instigates an amalgam of cranial conundrums resulting in the excrutiatingly painful realization that this sentence has exceeded its grammatically correct capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuse=--action Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Also, while we're on the subject of words, "realtor" is two (count them two(2)) syllables. I seem to have passed my 1000th post and not even realized it. -fuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup BDC Posted May 7, 2006 Author Share Posted May 7, 2006 undinism Medical term for sexuoerotic response to urination ; taking pleasure in urinating on somebody or being urinated upon, sexual excitation aroused at the sight or by the sound or thought of urine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vacuum cleaner Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 flibbertigibbet is my favorite word it's a silly, flighty person Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 i'm flabberghasted by this flippant tomfoolery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 actually i'm sick and tired of english always trying to make me out to be a bad guy with words like niggardly and negative. i think i'll invent my own language that only i know, that way i can have encrypted conversations with myself. Here's a word I picked up today. Well it's actually a name. Scheherazade. Scheherazade or Shahrazad (Persian: شهرزاد Shahrzad) is the (fictional) storyteller of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. The frame tale goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهريار or "king") would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday's wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was betraying him. He had killed three thousand virgins by the introduction of Scheherazade. Against her father's protestations, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King. Once in the King's chambers, Scheherazade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved sister Dunyazad, who had secretly been prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the long night. The King lay awake and listened with awe to Scheherazade's first story and asked for another, but Scheherazade said there wasn't time as dawn was breaking, and regretfully so, as the next story was even more exciting. And so the King kept Scheherazade alive as he eagerly anticipated each new story, until, one thousand and one adventurous nights, and three sons later, the King had not only been entertained but wisely educated in morality and kindness by Scheherazade who became his Queen. The nucleus of these stories is formed by an old Persian book called Hezar-afsana or the "Thousand Myths" (Persian: هزارافسانه). This bird must've been able to sing some humdinger of a tale to string this wing ding king along for something longer than a fling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup BDC Posted May 7, 2006 Author Share Posted May 7, 2006 "Niggardly" Don't forget niggerish, and my favorite, Negroization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bad_news Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Malapropism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 sporidium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Triskadecaphobia Fancy for "fear of 13." A pretty common word actually. Watch out for this: anagram: eleven plus two = twelve plus one Wouldn't want you to freakthefuckout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 sorry, that last post should be disqualified Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bad_news Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 pugnacious - ready and able to resort to force or violence; -adj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26SidedCube Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 misanthrope - One who hates or mistrusts humankind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiden Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 In an attempt to create verisimilitude, in addition to the usual vulgarities, the dialogue is full of street slang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup BDC Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 "bold word appreaciation thread." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahyoulose Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 per·snick·e·ty - Pronunciation Key (pr-snk-t) adj. Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious. Snobbish; pretentious. Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding: a persnickety job. lo·qua·cious Pronunciation Key (l-kwshs) adj. Very talkative; garrulous. two very good words. loves it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayabusa Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 nerds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainter Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 1. Absolutely stunningly fantastic. really no one said that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainter Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Don't Use Big Words! Next time, in promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compacted comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent!! ** ** In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from slang; don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean what you say. And, don't use big words!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Feast Island Man Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch a town in north Wales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitting Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 using the phrase 'inextricably interwined' in any essay will get a bonus 20% on your mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydoses Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 wow. big town name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Feast Island Man Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 wow. big town name how to pronounce it....... LLAN - FAIR - PWLL - GWYN - GYLL - GO - GER - YCH - WYRN - DROB - WLL - LLAN - TY - SILIO - GO - GO - GOCH # LLAN - To start off with, pronounce this section as you would do the Scottish word "clan". Then listen to the sound recording above taking particular notice of how the "ll" is pronounced. It is difficult to explain in words and is more easily learnt by oral example, but we will have a go here anyway. Lie your tongue flat in your mouth so that the tip is firmly touching the bridge behind your front teeth. Keeping the tip of your tongue in place, try and touch your back teeth with the sides of your tongue - now breathe out forcing the air to run strongly over the back of your tongue. This will cause a vibrating noise near your back teeth. Again, keeping the tongue in position, gently change the shape of your tongue until the sound becomes more controlled. This is the "ll" sound you are looking for. Listen to the sound file above and keep on practising. # FAIR - Simply pronounce this section as you would the english word "fire", (not like you would expect to pronounce the word "fair" in english!) and change the "f" for a "v". # PWLL - Now you have been practising your "ll" sound this will be a little easier to explain. The "pw" section is pronounced like the "pu" in the english word "put". Now add the "ll" on the end as described above. Now listen to the sound file again! # GWYN - You may have heard the Welsh name "Gwyn", well this is pronounced in exactly the same way. Just say the english word "win" and put a "g" in front of it. (pronounce the "g" as you would in the word "gone"). Easy. # GYLL - This is a bit more tricky. First say the english word "gil" (as associated with fish!"). Then change the "l" (as in "let") to "ll" as explained above. Listen to the sound file again. # GO - Looks easy doesn't it - it is! Pronounce it as you would the "go" in "gone" # GER - Simply say the word "care" but change the "c" for a "g". # YCH - Like the pronunciation of "ll", this is another tricky section to explain. Think of something you don't like and say "yuck". Now take the "y" from the beginning to leave "uck". Now change the "ck" to "ch" as pronounced in the Scottish word "loch". # WYRN - This looks more complicated that it is. Just say the english word "win". # DROB - First say the english word "draw" and then add a "b" on the end. Easy. # WLL - You've learnt this already. It's pronounced the same as "pwll" above but without the "p". # LLAN - Again, this is exactly the same as the "llan" at the beginning of this section. # TY - Simply pronounce this section as you would the "t" in "twig". # SILIO - Just say "silly - o". The "o" is pronounced as in "cot". # GO - As above. # GO - As above. # GOCH - We're almost there. Simply say "go" as above, put the "ch" after it and that's it! Put it all together and keep on practising. Now there is only one question remaining .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man with the Answers Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 can you tell us what it means? found it: A quiet beautiful village, an historic place with rare kite under threat from wretched blades." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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