McAnally's (The Community Pub) > Author Craft
Cool words
Snowleopard:
Ah. I love the look and the "say" of the word. Lour - it just has a nice sense all round to it.
OZ:
I like when writer use words with their original meanings not just the meanings that have become accepted because of common misuse. A couple of examples of that are:
decimate-now used to mean destroyed-original meaning was to destroy one in ten ( usually one in ten soldiers in a Roman troop that showed cowardice or one in ten villagers in a
village that would not give up rebels of some sort )
affinity- now used to mean to one having a natural attraction or liking for something-original meaning was to be related by marraige ( as opposed to consanguinity-related by blood ).
Lord Rae:
I got two old international dictionaries from my great grandparents house years ago. They both hail from somewhere around 1900 and are full of words I've never heard of. Love it...although they're falling apart.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: Lord Rae on May 08, 2011, 12:05:41 PM ---I got two old international dictionaries from my great grandparents house years ago. They both hail from somewhere around 1900 and are full of words I've never heard of. Love it...although they're falling apart.
--- End quote ---
JEALOUS.
Piotr1600:
bathysmal - an abysmal sea. (Fitting for fish-men and/or Deep Ones. And Dagon.)
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version