I'm pretty smart ya know? But also pretty dumb.

[MrPixel]

It's a case of desperately needing to have the "just right" $20 word* that tells the whole story, thank you, I'm done, let's go get coffee, when a buck-fifty, 7th-grade-readable "duh" word gets the job done in fine style.

* - I thought we declared that $20 words are now actually $50 due to inflation.

 

[onehitwanda]

I clumbge the hills with eager steps, and looked
For some sign of a beloved presence near.

But grouselled and gobthwacked, I morosely retreated
and rescended the local pub to get thoroughly beeted.

 

[cw5523729]

In the middle of writing a story, I got stuck mid-sentence because I couldn't figure out how to write impropriety as an adjective.
Impropietous? Impropitious? Unpropitious?

Then I looked it up. Oh. Its improper.

...I knew that.

Please help my fragile ego and tell me I'm not the only one who gets stuck like this.

You know, at first I read this and said "oh, duh" myself. Then later on i reconsidered. Sure, I'll grant that 'improper' is grammatically correct but is it correct for usage?

When i think of using the word 'improper' vs 'impropriety', they don't fall into the same category. If i was looking for a word to describe someone's impropriety, I don't think improper would be it. But I'm not sure exactly what it would be. But calling someone's impropriety as an "improper scumbag" doesn't sound right at all.

Sorry to not help.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

That's nothing. I didn't how to spell "the" once, at university, writing a 2000 word term paper. the, hte, eht?? I didn't know for about 48 hours. Very odd.

Stress isa bitch, bastard, and generally uncouth thingamabobby

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Oh wow, apersonal is indeed not a word

Yes, but it should be! ‘Impersonal’ just doesn’t cut it.

I think it’s time for us to take our jabberwocky more seriously. If the Queen of Hearts could believe six impossible things before breakfast, maybe we should all be using six nonce words before tiffin each day.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

A lot of things become impossible once you start to think about them. Sometimes when I'm saying a word aloud, I realise it's just some random sounds and other people are supposed to understand what I mean. Or I might be walking along, and for some reason I become conscious of the act of walking, and it's impossible to walk naturally. Like I have to tell my legs how to move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centipede's_Dilemma

 

[onehitwanda]

maybe we should all be using six nonce words

Um...

Yeah. No. Not in the UK, thanks.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Um...

Yeah. No. Not in the UK, thanks.

Novel? Nouveau? Freshly-minted? Wordsmithed for the first time? Created?

 

[MrPixel]

And sometimes I am Diogenes, with my lamp lit, walking down the street looking for another word for "thesaurus."

 

[onehitwanda]

Novel? Nouveau? Freshly-minted? Wordsmithed for the first time? Created?

Genitated.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

You know, at first I read this and said "oh, duh" myself. Then later on i reconsidered. Sure, I'll grant that 'improper' is grammatically correct but is it correct for usage?

When i think of using the word 'improper' vs 'impropriety', they don't fall into the same category. If i was looking for a word to describe someone's impropriety, I don't think improper would be it. But I'm not sure exactly what it would be. But calling someone's impropriety as an "improper scumbag" doesn't sound right at all.

Sorry to not help.

Yep, in the end I deleted that sentence.
Nothing can come from something as it turns out.

 

[onehitwanda]

thesaurus

Plural: thesaurusen - large sauropods known to live in herds, they were unknown to Science until the remarkable Miss Clitheroe discovered a fossil walkway in Down-Upperdon in Devon in late 1962.

 

[onehitwanda]

How is it afternoon already? I call Shannockigans on this Burlupery.

 

[cw5523729]

Yep, in the end I deleted that sentence.
Nothing can come from something as it turns out.

Now I'm going to spend the entire day trying to figure out what word I WOULD use. So thanks for blowing any chance I had of getting work done today.

 

[onehitwanda]

@Jackie.Hikaru this is what happens when you put a penny in my slot.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Plural: thesaurusen - large sauropods known to live in herds, they were unknown to Science until the remarkable Miss Clitheroe discovered a fossil walkway in Down-Upperdon in Devon in late 1962.

Yah, too bad they got predated by googleus maximal...

 

[MrPixel]

Now I'm going to spend the entire day trying to figure out what word I WOULD use. So thanks for blowing any chance I had of getting work done today.

You're welcome!

 

[cw5523729]

You're welcome!

Who am I kidding? I didnt really need an excuse to not work.

 

[Bamagan]

@Jackie.Hikaru this is what happens when you put a penny in my slot.

Oh dear, I guess we'd better send @PennyThompson a care package, that could be a lengthy foray.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Sidebar reflection.

This is why I so love AH - the ability to engage in delightful banter at the drop of a hat.

Speaking of fedoras, I note with glee the revealed identity of the mysterious but superbly dressed French ‘detective’ outside the Louvre! How delightful - a 15 year old kid with a love of detective stories. Simply delicious!

 

[redgarters]

Please help my fragile ego and tell me I'm not the only one who gets stuck like this.

I sometimes hit upon such contrafibularities, and become quite phrasmotic over the pericombobulations.
Or: Brain works sometimes, sometimes not. More often not.

 

[StillStunned]

The most socially awkward of all dinosaurs.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

@Jackie.Hikaru this is what happens when you put a penny in my slot.

Don’t worry. They’re untarnished.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Sidebar reflection.

This is why I so love AH - the ability to engage in delightful banter at the drop of a hat.

Speaking of fedoras, I note with glee the revealed identity of the mysterious but superbly dressed French ‘detective’ outside the Louvre! How delightful - a 15 year old kid with a love of detective stories. Simply delicious!

Indeed!
The kids are alright.

 

[stickygirl]

I clumbge the hills with eager steps, and looked
For some sign of a beloved presence near.

Yep that’s way better than the original. Look at us go, improving the English language!

I've seldom witnessed such Impropietousness