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Cool words
Snowleopard:
Nice one, Piotr.
Ziggelly:
I don't know how 'old' these words are, but they are certainly seldom used for how often you come across such situations in literature (and they both happen to be spelled almost the same way, oddly enough):
. aposiopesis - deliberately breaking off in the middle of a sentence, either because you are unwilling to finish, don't know what to say, or because it would be best filled in by the person's imagination.
. apotheosis - the highest level of something that you can possibly achieve. Having no equal. Usually a deification.
meg_evonne:
discombobulated I heard it when I was nine, I think. It makes me feel like I'll get lost half way through saying or typing it, or life will interfere and drag me away. It's that magic kind of word where the semantic meaning matches the feeling as you say it.
Ah, wait. Words that aren't used that often.... Well then behoove.
True story. My first writing job was for a professor studying how people learn words. List vs story. He gave me lists and lists of words rarely used (unless you were a fantasy writer/reader LOL) to write into short stories. Then he had his test subjects read them and provide definitions, studying that vs list learning. I love saying, in an uptight high class with a nasual tange, "It behooves us..."
Shecky:
I love the word "discombobulated". I've played with it a lot over the years. Examples:
- after a couple of drinks and feeling happy and at peace with the world, "Man, I'm feelin' mighty combobulated right now."
- regarding getting my s*** back together, "Ugh, what a clusterf*** this week's been. Head ain't on straight. Gotta get recombobulated."
meg_evonne:
cool recombobulated! rolling that one over and over in my mind and tongue! Of course if you were that far in your buzz--I admire your ability to say it at all. *smiling*
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