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Old 12-19-2009, 09:43 AM   #51 (permalink)
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superfluous: otiose: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life ...
excess: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ...
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Old 12-22-2009, 05:48 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Satiate - to be satisfied/content; maybe excessively
Circumlocution - to be evasive, indirect, or unnecessarily wordy
Pluvial - of or pertaining to rain; rainy
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Old 12-23-2009, 08:07 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Pluvial - of or pertaining to rain; rainy
I'm not sure why, but I think this word is fabulous. I'm going to start using it.
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Old 12-24-2009, 08:45 PM   #54 (permalink)
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I'm not sure why, but I think this word is fabulous. I'm going to start using it.
I know why.. cause it IS fabulous. It's one of my favorite words ever

Balatron - A clown, a joker; a silly silly man
Ivresse - Drunkenness, intoxication
Horrisonant - Terrible/dreadful sounding
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How have you let this thread die a miserable death like this you philistines??

Anyway, here's another one:

nonplussed

adjective
1. so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react.
"Henry looked completely nonplussed"

2. NORTH AMERICAN informal
not disconcerted; unperturbed.

I was convinced it only had the second, american meaning but then...
Anyways, sounds great...
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crapulent

relating to the drinking of alcohol or drunkenness.

Surprising meaning, innit?
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^ HaHa! Yes. That's why I for one wouldn't use that word.

As well as having an extensive and often neglected vocab, English is also good at putting words together like bits of Lego. That's why I like some humble workhorse words, like have. Here's an exaggerated example of what we can do with it and its derivatives:-

Having had problems with my car, I had to have a mechanic have a go at fixing it. Next day:
Me: I have to have the car back. Have you had a chance to have a look at it?
Mechanic: Well, I would have, but if I had I wouldn't have had time to have had lunch.
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capnophobia and fumiphobia are two terms that refer to an intense hatred, or fear, of smoking or having anyone around who is polluting the air in the immediate vicinity with tobacco smoke; whether from cigarettes, cigars, pipe, or from any similar process of smoke distribution.
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^ Fumiphobia especially has a great sound to it; it's just a pleasure to say. This word, though, not so much:-

Subfusc looks like a word that hasn't been finished yet: a three-letter prefix is all but toppling over a four-letter root word so the whole thing looks off balance - and what other word in the language ends with "...sc" anyway ? This morning I found subfusc in a travel book published in 1939, and because of this thread, I went to the trouble of checking it in a dictionary. Turns out that it means "rather dark in colour, unimpressive", and the two "u"s are pronounced like the "u" in bus, so the sound is more or less "sabfask."

My verdict: ugly on the page, ugly in the mouth and unneccesarily arcane, I can't think of any reason to use it at all. To the active artists here who are writing songs, my rec is: Never put subfusc in your lyrics - imo Roger Waters made the right decision when he was working on the album originally entitled Subfusc Side Of The Moon.
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