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fireball
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response 50 of 163:
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Apr 18 16:43 UTC 1995 |
re: #46 esp. when said by James Earl Jones!!
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other
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response 51 of 163:
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Apr 19 03:23 UTC 1995 |
Thanks, popcorn for mentioning defenestrate, which I first encountered in
Grex's party program, and which I assumed to mean "to remove the windows from"
but have since learned otherwise....
another fave is "juxtaposition."
the phrase "non sequitur," which has sometimes taken the form "nonsequitur"
in English usage.
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tom67
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response 52 of 163:
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Apr 19 10:40 UTC 1995 |
I like "confusticated" ..I first saw it in The Hobbit...and loved it ever
since.
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helmke
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response 53 of 163:
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Apr 19 12:03 UTC 1995 |
My favorite is "foo", a classic computer term also fond in some really old
cartoons.
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popcorn
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response 54 of 163:
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Apr 19 14:02 UTC 1995 |
This response has been erased.
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headdoc
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response 55 of 163:
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Apr 19 14:37 UTC 1995 |
For a while, back in college, my favorite word was "obsfucation" and I used
it often when I wrote.
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srw
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response 56 of 163:
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Apr 19 14:58 UTC 1995 |
("obfuscation" you meant, I assume)
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vsclyne
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response 57 of 163:
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Apr 19 15:12 UTC 1995 |
"Obsfucation" is a far better word.
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fitz
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response 58 of 163:
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Apr 19 15:40 UTC 1995 |
PALIMPSEST: A document that has been written on several times
with remnants of imperfectly erased earlier writtings
often still visible.
This word departs from the intention to bring forth
favorite words: This word caused me some pain when I actually
had to look it up a third time, albeit I only stumbled into this
word that many times over a perod of six or so years. However, I
realized that I was not going through the effort to learn new words
the first time. (Lazy! Shame on me. I repent.)
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rcurl
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response 59 of 163:
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Apr 19 15:55 UTC 1995 |
I have never used the word "palimpsest" - until this moment! However,
I now realize that my students are writing palimpsests all the time,
even though they are using word processors: imperfect pieces of
prior versions abound.
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davel
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response 60 of 163:
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Apr 19 21:02 UTC 1995 |
Yes, well, the original referred to writing in ink on a medium of animal skin,
and "erasing" meant scraping the medium a bit thinner.
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tsty
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response 61 of 163:
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Apr 19 21:49 UTC 1995 |
Mellifluous is nearly onomatopoeic.
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srw
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response 62 of 163:
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Apr 20 01:00 UTC 1995 |
And onomatopoeic is quite multifarious, showing all of these adjectival
forms in my dictionary:
onomatopoeic <-- TS's choice
onomatopoetic <-- my personal favorite of the 4
onomatopoietic <-- any takers?
onomatopoeial <-- ditto?
Good point about obsfucation, Shannon. Nearly everyone knows obfuscation.
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zook
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response 63 of 163:
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Apr 20 01:33 UTC 1995 |
Malapropism - the unintentional (and humorous) substitution of words. For
example, "I resemble that remark" for "I resent that remark"
The reason I like this word is that I watched the Bowery Boys movies where
such things are endemic, but didn't know the word until a crossword puzzle
forced me to look it up.
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davel
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response 64 of 163:
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Apr 20 12:21 UTC 1995 |
In a recent issue of _Smithsonian_, James J. Kilpatrick had a nice article
on Mrs. Malaprop & her far-flung kin.
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tsty
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response 65 of 163:
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Apr 20 13:30 UTC 1995 |
Including the mayor, who "just sat in his swizzle chair" all day long.
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mcpoz
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response 66 of 163:
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Apr 20 22:32 UTC 1995 |
There was a comedian back in the 60's or so whose entire act was a monologue
of back-to-back malapropisms. His act was hard to take, but once in a while
he hit on a good one. (I think his name was Norm Crosby).
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luci
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response 67 of 163:
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Apr 20 23:46 UTC 1995 |
Dysmorphophobia--I just learned this word in my adult psychology class. It
means an intense fear of being ugly, especially in older aged women.
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otterwmn
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response 68 of 163:
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Apr 21 03:15 UTC 1995 |
MUGWUMP: an independent, especially in politics.
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srw
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response 69 of 163:
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Apr 22 05:18 UTC 1995 |
Re 55 - It was indeed Norm Crosby, although it was the 70s, I believe.
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other
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response 70 of 163:
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Apr 22 06:26 UTC 1995 |
Dysmorphophobia, eh? Seems like arbitrary nomenclature to me....I would think
it meant a fear of losing one's shape. Mayhap even a fear getting out of
shape in the athletic sense, rather than the comical sense which first struck
me as appropriate...
Imagine if Plastic Man had dysmorphophobia...he'd be no use at all!!
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zook
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response 71 of 163:
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Apr 22 12:49 UTC 1995 |
Trichotillomania - neurotic hair-pulling
Trisdecaphobia (sp?) - fear of the number 13
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vsclyne
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response 72 of 163:
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Apr 22 14:33 UTC 1995 |
Enatiodromian
hehehe
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gracel
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response 73 of 163:
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Apr 23 01:49 UTC 1995 |
re #45 -- presumably you are asserting that "crapulous" means
"gluttonous" not "glutinous"; I believe the word also suggests
that one is feeling some ill effects from said gluttony.
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luci
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response 74 of 163:
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Apr 23 03:49 UTC 1995 |
So what's the fear of toads and mice going to war?
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