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firstly I love archaic words, both that they are old and have interesting sounds when you say them.
my favorite every day word has to be ethereal. I love how it sounds and that it means how it sounds to me.
so what are your favorite words, bonus points for those not in the spell checker!!
hit me with with your best, also a run of words or phrase counts
I'm slightly mad and completely obsessed with language
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anachronistic is one of my faves, along with indignant
Sometimes I feel like writing poetry and sometimes I watch Netflix. No judging.
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Well, from napm but unedited as of yet.:
Some words I Never Put into a Poem
(but always wanted to)
Cuneiform is a way of writing
far before I’ve ever written
or you were here to read
Purlicue is that meaty section
between your thumb and fingers
where you might rest your pen
(if you even use such things)
or couch against your lip
when you get nervous
Mandelbrot is what infinity
might look like,
if it wasn’t so large.
A tarn is a small lake
reflecting the moon’s face
isolated by the mountains
more beautiful for being alone
and a crucible is a pot
so strong they use it to melt steel
(or an uncommonly awkward situation)
so I ask that you stay a while.
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One-Word Poem
David R. Slavitt, 1935
Motherless.
From this website: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/one-word-poem
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(07-16-2015, 05:06 AM)cjchaffin Wrote: Brobdingnagian
 Agreed.
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a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
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Antelope - this is just a beautifully odd sounding word.
and
fracture mechanics - not only does this have a satisfying crunch to its sound, but conceptually it is very interesting.
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Is that the same thing as "fractal mechanics"?
One of my favorite phrases is "synthetic a priori intuition".
dale
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The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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Timeless existence precludes beginning*.
*Eight-track tapes or Kant? Your aposteriorial aprioriness is enough to insubstantialize peanut butter ( i.e. Mickey Mouse was induced, not deduced).
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
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revealed.
ssshhhhh.
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The....it comes in handy.
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Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
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Squidge
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(07-19-2015, 07:33 PM)ellajam Wrote: Biscuitified
Squidge
plagiarism (recent)
(07-12-2015, 06:38 PM)TheOnlyRedSmurf Wrote: firstly I love archaic words, both that they are old and have interesting sounds when you say them.
my favorite every day word has to be ethereal. I love how it sounds and that it means how it sounds to me.
so what are your favorite words, bonus points for those not in the spell checker!!
hit me with with your best, also a run of words or phrase counts
laboulbeniales....OK, it's a noun but I like it.
borborygmi...for its onomatopoeia
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(07-17-2015, 09:31 AM)Erthona Wrote: Is that the same thing as "fractal mechanics"?
One of my favorite phrases is "synthetic a priori intuition".
dale
no, it isn't. or at least, I haven't heard of that. But come to think of it, there could be a fractal fracture mechanics, that would be interesting. but as a phrase it is too much of a tongue twister for my liking.
fracture mechanics is the study of cracks in rigid materials and how they develop. for example fracture mechanics is involved with the development of the wings of planes... which is a terrifying concept for someone [like me] who is, putting it mildly, a nervous flyer, to know that the wings of the plane are covered with tiny cracks [essential, of course, but still worrying]. In which case there may very well be fractals within fractures. Unfortunately, i am not an expert.
However, I also like the way that this idea of cracks and the way things crack is a rather poetic metaphor; people crack, 'there is a crack, a crack, in everything. that's how the light gets in' [leonard cohen] etc. Fracture is a poetic word whereas mechanics isn't. so having these two words together creates this kind of beautiful strangeness of concept. but sonically they fit perfectly; the one flowing into the other, the sharp consonants complement each other fraCTure meChaniCs; but also, they complement the meaning; cracks can flow like a liquid, but flow through a brittle material...
oh dear, rambled on a bit there... must like this phrase more than I thought 
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fuck off, cunt and shit. anything that makes use of them is good stuff in anyone's book.
oh, and twatttttttttttttttttt with the extended tttttttttttttt.
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shenanigans
If your undies fer you've been smoking through em, don't peg em out
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(07-22-2015, 09:07 AM)Keith Wrote: shenanigans
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discombobulated
muffaletta
uvula
persnickety
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(07-22-2015, 11:06 AM)cjchaffin Wrote: discombobulated
muffaletta
uvula
persnickety
Ah, when I saw discombobulated I thought that was the end-all, but the others are just as good, all lovely to say. This thread might make me actually write a poem.
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