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What's your favorite word?
Topic Started: Mar 10 2006, 08:04 AM (633 Views)
The 89th Key
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Despotism.

Not the best definition in the world (tyranny, absolute power, etc) but I like how it sounds.

What's your favorite word (either by meaning or phonetics)?
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schindler
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Serendipity

I love the sound.

Oh, and Verisimilitude.
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kenny
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Crunchy


I like words that sound like what they mean.

Stark

Jello

flabby

snap

pop

billow

calm
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schindler
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onomatopoeic words. Gotta love 'em.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
The 89th Key
Mar 10 2006, 09:04 AM
Despotism.

Not the best definition in the world (tyranny, absolute power, etc) but I like how it sounds.


You're scaring me.


My favorite word is 'blithe' -- it's a happy word about being happy.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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DivaDeb
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I go through phases of being in love with particular words. My current favorite is antinomianism.
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Mikhailoh
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DivaDeb
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ooo Mik...I love that one too!
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The 89th Key
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Antipathy, is another good one.
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Aqua Letifer
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Craptaculous.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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mitigating

perspicacity

Pheidippides (the first ultra-marathon runner)
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

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Steve Miller
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I don't have a favorite word, but I taught my two year old nephew the word "balderdash", and now he says it all the time.
Wag more
Bark less
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Ooooh, Steve that reminded me of my new favorite word:

Tomfoolery.
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schindler
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gnomon

simony

Also,

succinct
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DivaDeb
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Steve Miller
Mar 10 2006, 08:37 AM
I don't have a favorite word, but I taught my two year old nephew the word "balderdash", and now he says it all the time.

used to have a dog named Balderdash

it's a great word

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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
I like the word "ambivalent", but then again I don't.

I used to like the word "apathy" but now I couldn't care less.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Aqua Letifer
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ivorythumper
Mar 10 2006, 08:45 AM
I like the word "ambivalent", but then again I don't.

I used to like the word "apathy" but now I couldn't care less.

:P

EDIT
AHHH, you beat me to it! Okay fine: I think "rancorous" is a foul and nasty word.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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DivaDeb
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gordian

w/o "knot"

it's a new fad for the pseudo-intellectual crowd...I'm starting the fad, feel free to hop on the band-wagon

:P
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Mikhailoh
Mar 10 2006, 10:19 AM
@#$%

I prefer a euphemism.
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DivaDeb
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schindler
Mar 10 2006, 08:52 AM
Mikhailoh
Mar 10 2006, 10:19 AM
@#$%

I prefer a euphemism.

just one?
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
schindler
Mar 10 2006, 09:52 AM
Mikhailoh
Mar 10 2006, 10:19 AM
@#$%

I prefer a euphemism.

The euphemistic form is $@%#, acceptable in polite company.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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To bier uintahite atrazine vocable evulsion encaenia. . .obviously.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Aqua Letifer
Mar 10 2006, 09:48 AM
ivorythumper
Mar 10 2006, 08:45 AM
I like the word "ambivalent", but then again I don't.

I used to like the word "apathy" but now I couldn't care less.

:P

EDIT
AHHH, you beat me to it! Okay fine: I think "rancorous" is a foul and nasty word.

I can't quite figure out what "incomprehensible" means.

The dogma lives loudly within me.
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mordacity is a great word to chew on.
We're all mad here!
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