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| 51. Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:00 AM |
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My favourite word is pentasyllabic. It is an autological word (self-descriptive)
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| 52. Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:07 AM |
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| QUOTE: We each have our irksome words that hit our gramattical nerves. Two of mine are when people say EK-cetera instead of ET-cetera
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Or Pete Cetera! 
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| 53. Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:08 AM |
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And ,OF COURSE, if it's printed up BIG TIME, it's GOTS to be CORRECT!!! Thank you, Reese's, for straightenin' me out!!! "YAY" it is!!! I DO like it when folk indulge in the amusing malaprop. I recall when young Nick told me he knew something like the back of his head. And my boss said "It's either feast or phantom." Feast or Phantom is the title of my latest script in progress.
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| 54. Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:10 AM |
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It is written in the book of Genocide. The cops suspect foreplay. Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
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| 55. Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:13 AM |
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| QUOTE: The cops suspect foreplay. |
Wonder if they had to beat off the suspect?
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| 56. Sunday, September 2, 2007 10:35 AM |
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I miss this thread! Thought I'd start it up again!! Frisson: moment of intense excitement, a shudder.
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| 57. Sunday, September 2, 2007 10:46 AM |
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Fun fact: The French title for Cronenberg's Shivers was Frissons.
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| 58. Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:47 PM |
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Susan, if you are irked by people feeling badly instead of bad, I wonder what you would make of the very odd (until one gets used to it) speech habit across these isles of describing someone as being poorly. "I'm poorly." "I've got a poorly tummy." "She's not at work today. She's poorly." Strange, but true. Oftentimes, one can feel poorly, but there isn't anything strange about that usage. I have a friend who used to be what you might call a furious pedant; he even refused to end sentences with prepositions* until such time as his life forced him to focus on actually important things. His pet hate was 'cran' for 'crayon'. Perhaps with his high-strung mockings of hoi polloi in my ears, I have tried to train myself to pronounce all of the syllables in words like 'mirror' and 'orange', which would otherwise be 'meir' and 'ornj' in my native tongue. *Fixed
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| 59. Monday, September 3, 2007 10:46 AM |
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I don't usually end sentences with "propositions" either. Like "Where do you work would you like to go upstairs for a good time I'll give you 50 bucks?" A bit awkward. as well as tacky. But for some, I'm sure it works! Word for today: exacerbate: to negatively complicate. And for poets: the perfect rhyme for "masturbate"!
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| 60. Monday, September 3, 2007 8:52 AM |
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QUOTE:I don't usually end sentences with "propositions" either.
Word for today: exarcerbate: to negatively complicate.
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Irony. Definition: See above.
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| 61. Monday, September 3, 2007 9:51 AM |
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QUOTE: QUOTE:I don't usually end sentences with "propositions" either.
Word for today: exarcerbate: to negatively complicate.
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Irony. Definition: See above.
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Shoot, boyee! Where you get yo' definitions? AT?!
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| 62. Monday, September 3, 2007 10:19 AM |
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I get them at the place where correcting someone's spelling yet spelling your own word of the day the wrong way is considered ironic.
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| 63. Monday, September 3, 2007 10:48 AM |
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QUOTE:I get them at the place where correcting someone's spelling yet spelling your own word of the day the wrong way is considered ironic.
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Day-umn! Oops. It be fix now. Too bad my misspelling error wasn't a funny malaprop, but only ironic. God, I surck!!
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| 64. Monday, September 3, 2007 12:08 PM |
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It was 'preposition' I was after. The shame!! The shame!! Hot tears of humiliation are running down my cheeks, can I interest you in a timeshare property.
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| 65. Monday, September 3, 2007 12:40 PM |
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| QUOTE: It was 'preposition' I was after. The shame!! The shame!! Hot tears of humiliation are running down my cheeks, can I interest you in a timeshare property. |
Only if you phrase your "pre-oposition" in the form of a question, complete with appropriate "mark". And buy me a DVD of the Nick Cave film The Preposition....
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| 66. Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:05 AM |
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QUOTE:Only if you phrase your "pre-oposition" in the form of a question, complete with appropriate "mark". And buy me a DVD of the Nick Cave film The Preposition....
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This post is preposterous. It's just a collection of words!
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| 67. Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:30 AM |
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QUOTE: QUOTE:Only if you phrase your "pre-oposition" in the form of a question, complete with appropriate "mark". And buy me a DVD of the Nick Cave film The Preposition....
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This post is preposterous. It's just a collection of words!
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Quiet, you. Word of the day: moist. No big secret. I just like the sound of it...
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| 68. Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:13 PM |
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Word of the day: moist. No big secret. I just like the sound of it... |
It seems to me that more often than not, women do not like that word.
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| 69. Wednesday, September 5, 2007 9:01 AM |
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QUOTE: QUOTE:
Word of the day: moist. No big secret. I just like the sound of it... |
It seems to me that more often than not, women do not like that word.
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Well, they SHOULD, particularly after they've just baked me a rich, MOIST Betty Crocker cake, that I can cut with a PAPER KNIFE!!! Pass the ice cream, Shelly! And get me a beer!!! And a NEW word of the day!!!
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| 70. Wednesday, September 5, 2007 3:20 PM |
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"Mind bottling, isn't it? Yeah, mind bottling. You know, when things are so crazy, it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle." -Chazz Michael Michaels, "Blades of Glory"
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| 71. Wednesday, September 5, 2007 5:57 PM |
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BASTINADO, n.
The Devil's Dictionary definition:
The act of walking on wood without exertion.
Merriam-Webster definition:
A punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick.
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| 72. Thursday, September 6, 2007 8:42 AM |
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FILIPENDULOUS, adj. Hanging from a thread.
Has he taken his eyes off it yet?
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| 73. Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:35 PM |
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Catachresis - misuse or strained use of words, as in a mixed metaphor, occurring either in error or for rhetorical effect.
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| 74. Monday, October 15, 2007 12:12 PM |
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shibboleth
1. A word or pronunciation that distinguishes people of one group or class from those of another. 2. a. A word or phrase identified with a particular group or cause; a catchword.
---b. A commonplace saying or idea. 3. A custom or practice that betrays one as an outsider.
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| 75. Monday, October 22, 2007 1:33 PM |
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"Causing awe or terror. Inspiring wonder or excitement. Fear of the inexpicable or supernatural". The word is "awesome", the cliche du jour that was once a very fine specific & superlative adjective that has been bastardized & colloquiallized into oblivion. I blame the surfers & Val-types ( I also lay the overuse of "dude", "like", & "ton" in any other context than unit of weight comprising 2000 pounds, at their feet). Maybe I'm just getting old, but if you wanna see me cringe, say "Totally awesome, dude!", sans irony. Another word that's ridiculously over & misused is the one we refer to as the "f-word". Listening to my son & a fellow twentysomething pal of his recently, I noticed that every variant of this four letter bomb was bandied about, EXCEPT when referring to sexual intercourse. THAT was euphimized into one of my LEAST FAVORITE phrases of all time :"sleep with". I've "slept with" many people & things, but only a fraction of those times involved the sex act. Is this becoming a generation of non-literalization? Or should I just shut up about the dumbing down of our language & try to be "Fucking awesome"?!
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