Favorite Words

[Misty_Morning]

OK. Here's the thing.

Someone wished me a happy birthday with a really cool pic that I had never seen before. It kinda made my brain studder in a pleasant way.

Well that got me to thinking....after a while....about trying to describe certain emotions and such. More to the point, it got me to wondering about certain words that we choose to describe our own emotions.

One of my favorite words is discombobulated. I rarely if ever get to use that word in ordinary daily conversation. But I must say that that word is just about all that comes to mind right now.


So...what's your favorite word or words? And why?

 

[only_more_so]

So...what's your favorite word or words? And why?

If it weren't so late at night, and I hadn't had a bottle of wine, I might be able to recall what my favorites words were. But the truth is that the English language is fascinating, at least to me.

In high school English, the teacher had us read a poem, and asked us what would change if the author had chosen the word scarlet instead of crimson (The Sick Rose, if memory serves). They both mean red, they both fit the tempo of the line in question, but what a reader would take away is totally different.

Anyway, most rocket scientists don't care about such things. My coworkers often have to ask me what I said and then what the word means. I can't remember many of them now, but loquacious and taciturn are definitely a couple of them.

 

[Misty_Morning]

If it weren't so late at night, and I hadn't had a bottle of wine, I might be able to recall what my favorites words were. But the truth is that the English language is fascinating, at least to me.

In high school English, the teacher had us read a poem, and asked us what would change if the author had chosen the word scarlet instead of crimson (The Sick Rose, if memory serves). They both mean red, they both fit the tempo of the line in question, but what a reader would take away is totally different.

Anyway, most rocket scientists don't care about such things. My coworkers often have to ask me what I said and then what the word means. I can't remember many of them now, but loquacious and taciturn are definitely a couple of them.

Ahem...some consider me a rocket scientist......just sayin...and I love words.

 

[only_more_so]

Ahem...some consider me a rocket scientist......just sayin...and I love words.

LOL... Actually, I meant that I am a rocket scientist and I work with other rocket scientists. Actually, my diploma says "Aeronautics and Astronautics" but it boils down to things that fly through the air or through space.

Plus Rocket Scientist impresses people.

 

[floweringquince]

...it boils down to things that fly through the air or through space...

Yeah, well, getting stuff to fly through air or space...
I mean sure it takes some serious Grade A top-drawer slap-bang ultra-elegant slicker-than-snot-on-a-doorknob aerospace & aeronautical engineering, but hey - it's not like it's Rocket Science or something

(A fellow engineer once asked me how to spell "sue." Not "sous" or "Sioux", but "sue.")


"Susurration" - now there's great word.

Quince, who will now forever be haunted by the ghost of Werner von Braun

 

[only_more_so]

"Susurration" - now there's great word.

I love it when you talk dirty.

Quince, who will now forever be haunted by the ghost of Werner von Braun

Better than being haunted by the ghost of Nikola Tesla. That guy was nutso (I read his autobiography). How about some nice Euler haunting? BTW that only sounds dirty if you know how to pronounce the guy's name.

 

[cloudy]

I love that biblical word, smite.

It sounds so.........I dunno, permanent, and old-fashioned, and yet, it's so silly.

I remember when Owera (sadly, not on Lit anymore) posted that if Jesus had truly come to North America like the LDS say he did, then he probably would have smote us heathens.



Back when I used to go to church, I would just about have to leave if the preacher read a passage that contained that word.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I've already said Vermilion is my favorite name for a color.

I like languid and sanguine for similar reasons, the way they roll off the tongue.

Pleathora as well.

I like lots of words.

 

[only_more_so]

I've already said Vermilion is my favorite name for a color.

I like languid and sanguine for similar reasons, the way they roll off the tongue.

Pleathora as well.

I like lots of words.

"Jefe, would you say I had a 'plethora' of pinatas?" I love that movie!

A few words have been coming to me...
ambivalent
misanthrope
puerile
specious

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

favorite words? Hmm well I know I use a lot of them but my mother says I use cool a lot when I don't feel like saying much. Thats not my favorite word I'd have to say my favorite word is organized. Because that's what I like to be even if my desk is a freaking mess right now.

 

[Guest]

fuck...
if i can't find a word to suit, i'll just make one up. works for me.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

verily

&

ass-hat

 

[drksideofthemoon]

feldmetelschnellenkoppler...I just wish I could use it in a story somewhere...

 

[scriptordelecto]

feldmetelschnellenkoppler...I just wish I could use it in a story somewhere...

If anyone could, it'd be you sweetheart! LOL!

 

[SeaCat]

feldmetelschnellenkoppler...I just wish I could use it in a story somewhere...

Hubschrauber for me. Oh so many ways to play with the direct translation of this.

Cat

 

[CeriseNoire]

At the moment:

dusk (as a verb)
impertinent

 

[drksideofthemoon]

Hubschrauber for me. Oh so many ways to play with the direct translation of this.

Cat

feldmetelschnellenkoppler - precious metal hi speed relay...(used on the Siemens TWK-8, affectionately known to those of us that worked on them as the Twinkle-eight)

 

[SeaCat]

feldmetelschnellenkoppler - precious metal hi speed relay...(used on the Siemens TWK-8, affectionately known to those of us that worked on them as the Twinkle-eight)

I figured it was something like that from the translation.

German is fun for the way it creates words.

Cat

 

[impressive]

omneity

 

[slyc_willie]

Acquiesce

Just love it when someone gives in like that . . .

 

[MagicaPractica]

Voluptuous and serendipity. I, too, like discombobulated. I like words that fill the mouth. There's another on the tip of my tongue but I can't say it.

 

[slyc_willie]

Voluptuous and serendipity. I, too, like discombobulated. I like words that fill the mouth. There's another on the tip of my tongue but I can't say it.

Oh, that is so wonderfully teasing . . .

I also like serendipity, and happenstance. There's something about that word that makes me think of Victorian England.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Oh, that is so wonderfully teasing . . .

I also like serendipity, and happenstance. There's something about that word that makes me think of Victorian England.

Yeah, whatever it is, it's a real tease. It's driving me crazy.

 

[Guest]

I have lots of favorite words!

Defenestrate

Flummery

Mendacious

Pantaloon

Undulate

I'll have to think of more -

 

[drksideofthemoon]

I have lots of favorite words!

Defenestrate

Flummery

Mendacious

Pantaloon

Undulate

I'll have to think of more -

Pantaloon....I have to use that...I've always laughed at that word....He was resplendent in his purple, velvet pantaloons. As he walked into the great hall, women gasped and gaped.