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luci
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Wordy gurdy
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Apr 12 15:57 UTC 1995 |
Do any of you other grexers have a fascination for words or a favorite
word. I think language is interesting and often, humorous. List your
favorite word and tell why it's your favorite or any humorous things
about words.
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luci
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response 1 of 163:
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Apr 12 15:59 UTC 1995 |
I guess I'll go first. My favorite word is sesquipedalian...which literally
means a two foot long word. I'm also fond of the word apartment because of
the paradox it represents...why are apart-ments always grouped together?
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val
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response 2 of 163:
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Apr 12 16:23 UTC 1995 |
My favorite word happens to be desanguanation. It menas something like
draining all the blood from a body, but i just like the way the word sounds.
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rcurl
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response 3 of 163:
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Apr 12 16:26 UTC 1995 |
Item 76 in Spring 1995 agora has been linked to language 73.
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srw
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response 4 of 163:
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Apr 12 17:01 UTC 1995 |
Based on sanguine and related words, my guess is that it is spelled
"desanguinization".
One of my favorite words is "albeit" because it is almost three words placed
end to end, and still is short enough to use in the letter match game,
albeit not a very good choice.
I also like "recursion", and "recur", but hate "recurse".
This has been documented elsewhere, however.
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birdlady
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response 5 of 163:
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Apr 12 17:47 UTC 1995 |
Well, I like to use "confuzzled" instead of confused a lot. It just sounds
so much cooler. =) Another phrase a lot of people have noticed is when
they ask me how I am. I usually reply, "Phine as frog hair and neato-peachy
keen!" It most often gets a smile from them! =)
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luci
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response 6 of 163:
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Apr 12 18:07 UTC 1995 |
@ @
\__/ there you are
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steve
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response 7 of 163:
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Apr 12 19:32 UTC 1995 |
Does anyone remember the word for a battle between frogs and mice?
It starts biobrachy, I think, and its long. It has to be one of the
weirdest words I've ever heard of.
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anne
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response 8 of 163:
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Apr 12 21:00 UTC 1995 |
Well, I don't k now that word but... One of mine is wunnermuffins, but
that's mostly cause I made it up... why make up a word if you
don't like it? I also like the way plethora sounds...
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ed11
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response 9 of 163:
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Apr 12 22:06 UTC 1995 |
exit
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tnt
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response 10 of 163:
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Apr 12 23:29 UTC 1995 |
My favorite word is: DISCRIMINATION!
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kerouac
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response 11 of 163:
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Apr 12 23:51 UTC 1995 |
I always liked "Antidisestablishmententarianism".....I used to be a spelling
bee champ back in grade school and believe it nor not that one came up once.
On arelated topic, two newbies asked me what a "grex" is the other day and
in all the time I've been on I've never thought to find out. What exactly IS a
grex? Is it a plant, animal or mineral? MDW says its latin but I didnt see it
in in a latin dictionary. Dont tell me its a stupid word that rhymes withchex!
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birdlady
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response 12 of 163:
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Apr 12 23:59 UTC 1995 |
Grex is probably Latin for "addiction" =) j/k
One of my other favorites is from my friend James (peacefrg).
"Super-sado-masochistic-expiali-docious!!!" =)
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danr
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response 13 of 163:
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Apr 13 00:01 UTC 1995 |
Being a writer, I'm also intrigued by words. Lately, I've been trying
to get people to look at the roots of words and use them accordingly.
For example, many people use the word "fantastic" when something is
really good. If you look at the root of the word, however, you'll
notice that it has the same root as fantasy. That being the case, I'd
say something qualifies as fantastic only when it's so good that it
would qualify as a fantasy. I know this sounds schoolmarmish, but if
we don't use words properly, pretty soon they'll all come to mean the
same thing, and that would be a shame.
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scg
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response 14 of 163:
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Apr 13 00:20 UTC 1995 |
Likewise, awesome and awful should mean the same thing.
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peacefrg
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response 15 of 163:
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Apr 13 00:43 UTC 1995 |
My 3 favorite words in the English language are
Burgle
Jowle
And Spork
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davel
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response 16 of 163:
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Apr 13 01:21 UTC 1995 |
(I think "sesquipedalian" implies 1.5 feet, not two.)
I don't know that I have a favorite word or anything, but "onomatopoeic"
comes to mind.
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rcurl
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response 17 of 163:
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Apr 13 06:01 UTC 1995 |
In one phase of the mispent portion of my youth, my favorite word was
36oxydo12dimethyl12cyclohexanedicarboxylicacidanhydride. I practiced it
until it rolled trippingly off my tongue. It still does.
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aruba
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response 18 of 163:
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Apr 13 06:03 UTC 1995 |
I've always been partial to "facetious", because it has the amazing luck to
include each of the vowels in the English language exactly once, *in order*.
If you make it "facetiously" you get y, too.
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pad
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response 19 of 163:
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Apr 13 12:01 UTC 1995 |
I can`t remember which language, could be Serbocroat, But the word facetious is
considered an extremely rude thing to say, I never found out what it meant
though. I`ve always liked Alabaster and as someone already mentiond plethora I
shall not.
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katie
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response 20 of 163:
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Apr 13 18:37 UTC 1995 |
gems
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luci
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response 21 of 163:
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Apr 13 20:45 UTC 1995 |
Just the other day I think I figured out where the word restaurant comes
from. It sorta sounds like restorant, which makes sense. re. #17
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK-----organic chemistry...NOOOO!
Sorry....I have to take the MCAT in 8 days.
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abchan
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response 22 of 163:
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Apr 14 02:37 UTC 1995 |
Re: 21 *comforts luci* one of my best friends is taking the MCAT the same
time as you, and she's been stressing for like a month now, with practice
tests and all... good luck on it!
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omni
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response 23 of 163:
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Apr 14 05:12 UTC 1995 |
One of my favorites is besmirch. I dunno why, but I just like the sound
of it.
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srw
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response 24 of 163:
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Apr 14 05:33 UTC 1995 |
If you are studying organic chemistry (or any other academic discipline),
and you have a question you need help with, ask it in the tutoring conference.
There are several Ph.D.s and many other knowledgable folks waiting
to answer your question.
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