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| Author: | Dimrill [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Fantastic words thread |
I've heard a few people saying that words start to look strange to them the more they're looked at. I thought this only happened to me, so it comes as quite a shock that others suffer it as well. I intend this thread to contain me (and others, if you like) to wibble on about certain words that do this to them, without the fear of de-railing other threads. Or even just words you like to use or look at. So, to start off the one that caused me grief last week was "gary", and now Squirt used the word "beak" in Plissken's moany thread. Look at it... beak... it feels weird in the mouth. Beak....... beak. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
sponge
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Curmudgeon. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Oh god.. sponge.... that's just wrong and weird.. sponge. |
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| Author: | Shewolf [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Snaffle. Troglodyte. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
froth |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Predicate. I use that a lot more than is suitable. "Foom". It isn't a word, but by golly it sounds good. "Foom." "FOOM!". "Foooooooom." |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Plissken wrote: Predicate. I use that a lot more than is suitable. That, presumably, is predicated on there being a predefined suitable level of use. |
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| Author: | MrD [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Cluedo. |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Perspicacity 
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
would would would would would would. Now doesn't it look weird? |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
You taking the piss son? \ 
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Nope. If you would say a 'normal' word enough, it would start to would look really would strange. |
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| Author: | SteONorDar [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
A phrase, not a word, that Tolkien claimed to be the best in the english lanugage is "cellar door", he has a point. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
I know a lot of people have a problem with the word 'moist' for some reason. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Afflatus |
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| Author: | Runcle [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 13:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
is that because it comes out sounding french? cellar door that is. |
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| Author: | SteONorDar [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Runcle wrote: is that because it comes out sounding french? cellar door that is. It's just the whole sound of the phrase I think. He used it as an example of how, despite having such a mundane meaning, divorced from context it has a beautiful sound. |
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| Author: | Runcle [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
actually wasnt that on donnie darko aswell? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Runcle wrote: actually wasnt that on donnie darko aswell? As was Drew Barrymore and I love her. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Speaking of Donnie Darko, has anyone seen Southland Tales - supposedly the spiritual successor to DD, 'starring' the Rock, Sean William Scott, and Sarah Michelle Gellar? Goodness it's unwatchable tosh. |
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| Author: | SteONorDar [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Runcle wrote: actually wasnt that on donnie darko aswell? Yes it was - I remember being happy they'd picked up on an obscure Tolkien reference. Must watch that again sometime. And re-read all of Tolkien. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Craster wrote: Speaking of Donnie Darko, has anyone seen Southland Tales - supposedly the spiritual successor to DD, 'starring' the Rock, Sean William Scott, and Sarah Michelle Gellar? Goodness it's unwatchable tosh. I just read up on it. A film set in "Los Angeles, a city on the brink of chaos overshadowed by the growth of the underground Neo-Marxist movement", featuring "Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), ex-porn star in the midst of reconverting" that is "comparable in recent American film only to David Lynch's acclaimed Mulholland Drive". Even if it really "may be one of the worst films ever", How can I not watch that? Even though it will clearly be disappointing. 
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Investigative. Horrible word. It sounds all sticky-out in the wrong places, like the South African accent. Anthropomorphic, on the other hand, is brilliant. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 15:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Diametrically opposed. That's a nice pair of words. |
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| Author: | SteONorDar [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 15:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Curiosity wrote: Diametrically opposed. That's a nice pair of words. ooh, isn't it just! Coruscate and Scintillate are two other favourites of mine. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 15:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
SteONorDar wrote: Curiosity wrote: Diametrically opposed. That's a nice pair of words. ooh, isn't it just! Coruscate and Scintillate are two other favourites of mine. I'm a big fan of coruscate. |
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| Author: | Rodafowa [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 15:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Sussurate, too. |
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| Author: | SteONorDar [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 15:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Why is it that, upon hearing the word onomatopoeic, it is not immediately obvious what it means? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 15:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
SteONorDar wrote: Why is it that, upon hearing the word onomatopoeic, it is not immediately obvious what it means?  BECAUSE OPENING BOOKS WITH NON OPPOSABLE THUMBS IS CHUFFING DIFFICULT |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Mon May 12, 2008 11:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Chin. |
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| Author: | CUS [ Mon May 12, 2008 11:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Ocelot. Apposite. Submersible. Bathysphere. Detente. Blaxploitation. |
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| Author: | Trousers [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Flange |
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| Author: | Runcle [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
thread |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
CUS wrote: Ocelot. \ 
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
SteONorDar wrote: Runcle wrote: is that because it comes out sounding french? cellar door that is. It's just the whole sound of the phrase I think. He used it as an example of how, despite having such a mundane meaning, divorced from context it has a beautiful sound. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
In true Tolkein fashion I shall now pronounce Celador with a K instead. |
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| Author: | CUS [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Dimrill wrote: In true Tolkein fashion I shall now pronounce Celador with a K instead, over the next ten or twenty pages. FTFY. |
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| Author: | Runcle [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
would the door of your beer fridge be called a stelladoor? chortle of course not its vile. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon May 12, 2008 13:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Vile Vial |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon May 12, 2008 15:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Defenestrate. Discombobulate. |
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| Author: | MrD [ Mon May 12, 2008 20:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Trousers wrote: Flange 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon May 12, 2008 20:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
cuboid |
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| Author: | metalangel [ Mon May 12, 2008 23:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Bah! I have arrived too late to stop the inevitable 'defenestrate' post. It stopped being clever and amusing a long time ago. My words are: hooligan carcass incinerate My hated words are: sarky toddler shambolic |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Mon May 12, 2008 23:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
gaol gobsmacked boggle plop |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon May 12, 2008 23:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
MetalAngel wrote: Bah! I have arrived too late to stop the inevitable 'defenestrate' post. It stopped being clever and amusing a long time ago. Pooh to you, with knobs on! I don't like the word because it's funny or clever. I like it because there's a word in the English language specifically about throwing people out of windows. The act of defenestration was so common back when the word was created that they felt they needed a word for it. Brilliant. |
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| Author: | SteONorDar [ Tue May 13, 2008 1:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
If you fit a window, are you enfenestrating? If you replace it, are you refenestrating? And is double glazing bifenestration? I really should go to bed... |
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| Author: | Da5e [ Tue May 13, 2008 1:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Yes, Steve. Ensomniate. |
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| Author: | SteONorDar [ Tue May 13, 2008 1:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Davydd Grimm wrote: Yes, Steve. Ensomniate. ACTUAL LOL! |
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| Author: | TsuMuch [ Tue May 13, 2008 17:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantastic words thread |
Wednesday Wednesday wed-nesd-ay Wednesday wed-nes-day wednesday WEDNESDAY |
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