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I love saying the word: "coincidence"
I have a difficult time articulating precisely why, but, it has a warm, crisp rhythm and lends it self to a sort of Mexican-Texan cadence.
Are there any words that make you stop, and marvel at the particularity, and maybe even the peculiarity, of a sound?
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habitual. Immaturity at its finest.
Toward, with a little bit of a strange pronunciation that I picked from playing a crazy person in a play once. (The only type of role I can play well)
:on_glaugh:
Hooahguy
08-12-2012, 16:03
Wabbajack!
Well, only to other Skyrim fans.
I call just about everybody mia muca
CountArach
08-12-2012, 16:55
I stop all the time when I'm talking and admire words. Without a doubt one of my favourite words is 'perambulation'. It has a great cadence to it as you build up to the 'b' and then almost slide down to the end of the word. I just rarely get to use it in regular speech.
Harlot.
It actually has a nice sound to it. Not that I enjoy saying it to people! More of a "nice sounding word".
Bonafide, with a southern accent.
Montmorency
08-12-2012, 22:49
The Libyan rebels have me convinced that Allahu-akhbar is an intensely enjoyable thing to shout at the top of one's lungs.
The Libyan rebels have me convinced that Allahu-akhbar is an intensely enjoyable thing to shout at the top of one's lungs.
The Syrian rebels did the same for me.
Should probably transcribe it a akbar. Akhbar meaning "news" or, allahu akhbar: God is news.
Bob
I am not sure why, but I need to fight laughter every time I say or hear that name. Strange, I know...
Titillation.
Now I wonder why you would love saying that. :P
You know what? We here at the Org are a really mature group. :P
"Plethora"
It's even better when preceded by the word "veritable".
rickinator9
08-13-2012, 04:35
Pudding
seireikhaan
08-13-2012, 04:51
Twain
Harlot
Ludicrous
Desu.
Off the top of my head:
Facetious
Fantastic
Equestrian
Malevolent
johnhughthom
08-13-2012, 17:16
Probably.
I was once accused of inventing the phrase "self-evident." No, really.
johnhughthom
08-13-2012, 19:17
It's self-evident you made that up. :clown:
Gregoshi
08-13-2012, 19:48
It's self-evident you made that up. :clown:
It is probably ludicrous to think Lemur was being malevolent about it. You'd need a veritable plethora of evidence to convince me otherwise. I love pudding - yes siree, Bob...
I started this post hoping for bonifide titillation despite appearances otherwise. Kind of like, through unfortunate coincidence, being caught strolling amongst harlots and then claiming you were conducting a perambulation of them.
:shrug:
Centurion1
08-14-2012, 04:26
plebeian. My elitist self squirms with pleasure everytime i say plebeians.
Swashbuckler has a certain jive about it.
Obtuse. I feel it describes most of the people I encounter in life.
HopAlongBunny
08-16-2012, 21:27
emphasis
tessellations
ajaxfetish
08-17-2012, 07:42
Bulbous Bouffant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuCNAwXGaQ)
Ajax
Kralizec
08-17-2012, 09:24
"The".
I enjoy it so much that I use it very often.
Indubitably is a fun word to say. I also enjoy saying melancholy.
gaelic cowboy
08-17-2012, 14:17
I enjoy saying the words
"Another pint of guinness there <insert barmans first name> "
Also
"You mean this place serves only free beer"
That actually happened in Iowa and it still feels unreal even 9yr later apparently the Hawkeye State tourist economy went up 10000% after I got home.
Major Robert Dump
08-17-2012, 15:39
Kuquat.
I just got in trouble for using "at a remove" in a script. Looked it up, and yep, it's considered archaic/obscure.
Now I can say "at a distance," but that is not as precise for the meaning. Some days I hate being a writer.
That reminds me, I wrote an article about a band for a music magazine, and I had one of those conversations with the editor. "What do you mean when you say, 'They're a nervous breakdown that learned good housekeeping'?" she demanded.
"I mean that they've got a lot of musical tension between the beats, which are dance floor, and the chords and orchestration, which are avant garde."
"Well why don't you just say that?"
Sigh. Editors have no poetry in their souls. They exist merely to smash anything interesting out of an article. When I did a lot of commercial journalism, I kept myself amused by seeing how many interesting phrases or ideas I could slip past an editor per article. The answer: one or two at best, under ideal conditions (editor drunk or lazy).
I just got in trouble for using "at a remove" in a script. Looked it up, and yep, it's considered archaic/obscure.
Now I can say "at a distance," but that is not as precise for the meaning. Some days I hate being a writer.
What is the context I am good at these things
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