Words

[karmadog]

Like everybody else who writes, I love words. Everyday I have a new favorite. Sometimes it is because it has an obscure meaning, sometimes it is because of what it means, sometimes it is just fun to say. Other times I might have no idea why I am loving a word.

Today that word is ubiquitous. It means present, or seeming to be present everywhere at the same time.

I find it interesting that while many things might be ubiquitous, the word it self is not.

But mostly, I just like the way it feels when I say it. For novice pussy lickers, it might be a nice change to try to say this while going down rather than just licking the alphabet. Unfortunately, I didn't know this word when I was trying to learn that art. I had to content myself with caps, lower-case, italic, script, bold-face, etc.

Feel free to post your favorite word, and an explanation of why you love it. Please try to avoid the banal. It seems strange that a board full of poets never discusses their bricks.

 

[daughter]

It seems strange that a board full of poets never discusses their bricks.

Yes. I think it's strange, too. Writers are known for their obsession with words. Not so exotic, but I love coalesce.
I'm not telling the meaning. The dictionary provides great reading.

Peace,

daughter

 

[Sweetwood]

concomitant

I just love this word. It means accompanying, at the same time, equal to.

To behave concomitant to the occasion.

For me the word rings of fully developed consciousness that is completely present in reflection and action at the same time.

Sweetwood

Edit: took one m out of concomitant

 

[karmadog]

Great words. Concommitant I like particularly well. It sounds like a ringing bell. conn... commmm... i..tannnt.

Coalesce is almost ethereal in it's sound. Although contrart to it's meaning it sounds a little like escaping gas, don't you think?

Maybe we can all increase our vocabularies a little, but it's more fun than "How to Increase Your Word Power" in Readers Digest!

 

[Rybka]

Don't Like It But. . .

I overuse the word "suppose".

Anybody have any good alternative verbs?

 

[Sweetwood]

Coalesce

What a lovely word that is. It is the activity of the phase transition between two aggregate states.

It is such an amazing event, physically as well as spiritually and can give enormous opportunity for reflection.

Sweetwood

 

[JUDO]

Elegy

elegy - a poem of lamentation. a funeral song. a poem composed in elegiac couplets. a poem or song composed especially as a lament for the deceased.

I've been pondering starting an Elegy Challenge thread for a while. I will likely wait until sometime after the Summer Solstice (June 21st), though. I figure one challenge per season is probably enough from anyone.

It's been on my mind lately. A lovely word with lots of lovely, creative music and poems surrounding it - using its definition.

 

[JUDO]

Re: Don't Like It But. . .

I overuse the word "suppose".

Anybody have any good alternative verbs?

"Suppose" as in casting your actions as suppostition? (ie. I suppose you might be thinking that.)

If so, then "perhaps, probably, likely, maybe, if/or" might all suffice, depending on the context of the thought.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Re: concommitant

I just love this word. It means accompanying, at the same time, equal to.

To behave concommitant to the occasion.

For me the word rings of fully developed consciousness that is completely present in reflection and action at the same time.

Sweetwood

Sweetwood, your key "m" is stricky. U need only one "m" in concomitant. (That's what my webster's dictionaries tell me. I am a poor speller otherwise ).

Thank U for the word,

 

[Sweetwood]

Sticky keyboards

*Ahem*

Yes, that is what happened. *he says after he puts the dictionary down*

Thanks SJ

Sweetwood

 

[Rybka]

Re: Judo - Re: Don't Like It But. . .

"Suppose" more as a replacement for "think".

As when I do not want to sound too positive. "Supposition" as apposed to "belief", etc.

"Suppose" = think, believe, guess, ??? . . .

Regards, Rybka

 

[Rybka]

Senna Jawa - "stricky"?

Same problem?

Rybka

 

[Senna Jawa]

Re: Don't Like It But. . .

I overuse the word "suppose".

Anybody have any good alternative verbs?

Without looking into any dictionary I would propose:

        assume     pretend     imagine

Now let's check an on-line treasure: rymezone. This time it's not so hot but certainly useful, it provides the following 11 synonyms:

&nbsp conjecture, guess, hypothecate, hypothesize, imagine, reckon, say, speculate, theorise, theorize, think

"Postulate" is another one.

Now U don't need "suppose" anymore I suppose,

 

[Sweetwife]

Lascivious

I like the word lascivious.

It makes me think of a sultry jazz song, dancing with the man that turns me on.

Sweetwife

 

[Rybka]

Thank You. S.J.

Now I wish I had not mentioned your typo.

I have bookmarked that site.

Maybe a thread with a list of online sites helpful to writers/poets would be a useful thing to start?

Maybe a permanent link to such sites would be a good thing for Literotica to have? [Assuming it does not already have such.]

A "Writer's Resource page would be very helpful to a lot of aspiring authors/poets, and even to us old curmudgeons.

 

[Sweetwood]

What about names?

Can we give names too? Do they count?

Please let me know.

Sweetwood

 

[KatPurrs]

FROTTAGE - I won't give you the definition but if you want to meet me in the elevator, I'll demonstrate.

Kat~

 

[OT]

essence

it's what it is.

O.T.

 

[smithpeter]

Hi. What floor? 47? ok.
Could be a long lift.
Ahh, is that you making that purring noise?
Lady? Are you ok?
Do you need the Heimlich?
What? Frottage? Demonstrate please, when you get your breath back.

 

[OT]

yearn

if i may be so bold as to offer another.

yearn: When your insides want

 

[WickedEve]

Ever since I read OT's poem cork conundrum, I've had the word "conundrum" stuck in my head. The last words stuck up there were "cataclysm" and "chaos." I simply like the way these words sound when I say them.
Before that I it was "salacious." Salacious sounds salacious! I named my site Sexlacious.
And I use the word "Wicked" a lot, because it's wicked.
And I say "well" and "actually" all the time... I just do.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Like everybody else who writes, I love words. Everyday I have a new favorite. Sometimes it is because it has an obscure meaning, sometimes it is because of what it means, sometimes it is just fun to say. Other times I might have no idea why I am loving a word.

Well, as most of you know, I'm 100% Portuguese, never even been in an English speaking country for more than five days, so this happens to me on a daily basis. I've got hundreds of English words I dwell about. I must say that most of the words referred here I didn't have to look up. Even if I never had heard them in English, they were close enough to the equivalent Portuguese word (ubiquitous / ubíquo, coalesce / coalizar, concomitant / concomitante, ...).

On the other hand, words that you all know are a cherished everyday surprise to me. So I'll just give you a list of words I like for whatever reason, and if anyone needs any explanation, just ask, or use that link Senna Jawa provided.


LOL words

Bamboozle
Flibbertigibbet
Hoity-toity
Helluva (it is so a word, it's in Oxford Advanced Learner's dictionary)
Hullabaloo
Hubbub
Hurly-burly


looking sideways words
(you know the kind, to me they sound like "restaurantski" would sound if I told you it was Russian for "restaurant")

Amalgamation
Credulous
Disequilibrium
Detritus
Egregious
Extrinsic
Fastidious
Ignoble
Impecunious
Juxtapose
Loquacious
Lugubrious
Meretricious (and just about any other word ending with -ious)
Pergola
Placate
Suave


words I just like to say out loud
Bowdlerize
Chopstick (I know, it's stupid. I like to say "fork" too)
Circa
Fascia
Flamboyant
Fusillade (cue to shamelessly promote Under a Fusillade of Popping Kernel)
Galore
Halcyon
Histrionic
Kernel (vide shameless promotion above)
Nonchalance


I also like the word Chimaera, but karmadog might want to talk about that one, I'm not getting near it with a 10 foot pole ever again.

 

[OT]

Ever since I read OT's poem cork conundrum, I've had the word "conundrum" stuck in my head. The last words stuck up there were "cataclysm" and "chaos."

LOL, makes me think of the old Batman TV series:

"cataclysmic chaos, Batman. Conundrum is stuck in Eve's head.
To the bat poles...."

(if you're not an old Batman fan, then nevermind)

o.t.

 

[smithpeter]

"not" "too" and "many"

Barbeque
Petticoat
Mudslides
Ingest
Core
Staining
Futon
Unfolding

 

[Lauren Hynde]

YAY!!!

New word!

Forlorn adj marked by or showing hopelessness


Thanks, Sweetwood