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What is your favorite word?

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  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
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    I like Fritter, thats a good one

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    Xaquin
  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
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    The food or the nervous wastefulness?

  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
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    Never had it, but the word is fun

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
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    The food and the verb are both excellent.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Man I just blew through tomorrow's Wednesday crossword in 20 minutes. Much faster than my Wednesday average.

    Woooooooooooords.

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
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    Lately I've been using the word "sanguine" a lot which is weird because I never really understood how a word used to describe blood could also mean optimism.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
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    Serendipitous is pretty good

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Verisimilitude
    I was just thinking that!

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
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    Impetuous isn't bad.

    Better to be circumspect in some cases however.

    Virgil_Leads_You
  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Sangweeeeen

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  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    Lately I've been using the word "sanguine" a lot which is weird because I never really understood how a word used to describe blood could also mean optimism.

    Because people with too much blood are too happy.

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  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
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    Good Ole Vampire Philosophy

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
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    Garthor wrote: »
    Lately I've been using the word "sanguine" a lot which is weird because I never really understood how a word used to describe blood could also mean optimism.

    Because people with too much blood are too happy.

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
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    Sesquipedalian, thanks to Jim's Big Ego.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
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    Perturbation

    Garrulous

    Heretical

    Piquant

    Undulate

    Loquacity

    Harangue

    fuckin‘...

    Tremulous

    Elvenshae
  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Moist
    barometric

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Dong
    Cumulonimbus

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
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    Sussurate

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Dong
    Sussurate

    Sussudio

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
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    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Garthor wrote: »
    Lately I've been using the word "sanguine" a lot which is weird because I never really understood how a word used to describe blood could also mean optimism.

    Because people with too much blood are too happy.


    I think my favorite part (well, no, there’s a lot of fun parts in that) is that the one witch questions the ethicality of using blood to make a potion, not one minute after suggesting that they kidnap someone instead of going on a date.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
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    Enlong wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Garthor wrote: »
    Lately I've been using the word "sanguine" a lot which is weird because I never really understood how a word used to describe blood could also mean optimism.

    Because people with too much blood are too happy.


    I think my favorite part (well, no, there’s a lot of fun parts in that) is that the one witch questions the ethicality of using blood to make a potion, not one minute after suggesting that they kidnap someone instead of going on a date.

    They'd be kidnapping an adult, totally different than taking a child's blood.

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
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    in "phrase I inconspicuously slid into conversation absentmindedly when I hadn't heard it in literal years" news: I said "you actin' the fool" to someone recently

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Malarky

    Ballyhoo

    Crazy like a foo’

    what about ballyhoo

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I think I've concluded that my actual favourite word is crepuscular

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
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    emraeshine wrote: »
    Lately I've been using the word "sanguine" a lot which is weird because I never really understood how a word used to describe blood could also mean optimism.

    Sanguine is from the Latin word sanguis, which translates to "blood" or "bloody". In medieval medicine, sanguis was used to describe someone with a rosy, healthy glow. This fresh, blood-like complexion was associated with having an upbeat attitude and optimistic outlook.

    Two ways you can use the term include: 1) "the state of being sanguine" and 2) having "a fresh and sanguine complexion".

    This was back when the balance of the body’s fluids (humors) were considered to be of utmost importance in medical science, and disease happened when there was an imbalance in their respective levels. It was similarly believed that people were predisposed to different balances of the humors, which created different personality types. Kinda like how some folks associate broad personality types with blood types today.

    In addition to sanguine, that thinking gives us the terms cholic, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited February 2020
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    I try to put the word phantasmagorical into conversation regularly, but my favourite all time word is liminal.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
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    I like the made up word "paracausal" from destiny

    Yeah it's basically a techno babble way to say magic...

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    edited February 2020
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    I think I've concluded that my actual favourite word is crepuscular

    Crepuscular is pretty good. I'm always a little excited whenever I get a chance to use it.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
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    Verisimilitude

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
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    Uriel wrote: »
    Verisimilitude

    It’s onr of those words where you don’t realize until you learn it how useful it is, and you wonder how you did without it.

    Jedoc
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Verisimilitude
    Enlong wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Verisimilitude

    It’s onr of those words where you don’t realize until you learn it how useful it is, and you wonder how you did without it.

    I got in the habit of using it after reading Topless Robot's Fan Fiction Fridays.

    "I question the verisimilitude of your werewolf slash fiction, sir" is a sentence construction that can be tweaked for a surprisingly wide variety of conversational gambits.

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    Elvenshae
  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
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    Jedoc wrote: »
    Enlong wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Verisimilitude

    It’s onr of those words where you don’t realize until you learn it how useful it is, and you wonder how you did without it.

    I got in the habit of using it after reading Topless Robot's Fan Fiction Fridays.

    "I question the verisimilitude of your werewolf slash fiction, sir" is a sentence construction that can be tweaked for a surprisingly wide variety of conversational gambits.

    For top-drawer shade-throwin’, it is indeed tough to beat.

  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    Verisimilitude
    https://youtu.be/Uvwl7INZykc

    iridescent

    sizzle

    phenomenon

    trenchant

    serendipity

    more will come to me later, i'm sure

    Elvenshae
  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited February 2020
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    I have been reliably informed my first word was dog, and to be fair I still think it’s a good solid suitable word.

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