favorite words?

[StatingTheObvious]

I make up my own words. I forget them for a while and then remember them. My current favorite:

Re-functionalized - To fix something that was totalled.

[StColette]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='Nov 16 2005, 07:09 PM']"strategery"
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ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

my sayings are "okie pokie" and "wondermous" lol

[AlterDominicus]

"Jazzier"

I use a very enthusastic -just talk to SJAB about that!- "YES!" Alot, or I like to sign some things like "No-Way" I've been doing that a lot lately.

Or SJM got's me saying, "Jesus, Jesus Come and Squezze Us!"

[photosynthesis]

today's dictionary.com word of the day is...

bumbershoot \BUM-ber-shoot\ noun
: umbrella

Example sentence:
As the light sprinkle gradually turned into steady rain, Uncle Winston said, "I'm glad I remembered to carry my bumbershoot!"

Did you know?
Umbrellas have plenty of nicknames. In Britain, "brolly" is a popular alternative to the more staid "umbrella." Sarah Gamp, a fictional nurse who toted a particularly large umbrella in Charles Dickens' novel _Martin Chuzzlewit_, has inspired some English speakers to dub oversize versions "gamps."
"Bumbershoot" is a predominantly American nickname, one that has been recorded as a whimsical, slightly irreverent handle for umbrellas since the late 1890s. As with most slang terms, the origins of "bumbershoot" are a bit foggy, but it appears that the "bumber" is a modification of the "umbr-" in "umbrella" and the "shoot" is an alteration of the "-chute" in "parachute" (since an open parachute looks a little like an umbrella).

[Proud2BCatholic139]

Hemoglobin

[theculturewarrior]

Usufructuary.

[Proud2BCatholic139]

Plasibo Effect. (hehe!)

[theculturewarrior]

[quote name='StColette' date='Nov 17 2005, 08:26 PM']ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

my sayings are "okie pokie" and "wondermous" lol
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I like the word "okie," because when somebody says something like "I'm just a dumb Mexican," I can say, "Ahm just a dumm Okie!"

[theculturewarrior]

[quote name='Proud2BCatholic139' date='Nov 18 2005, 02:32 PM']Plasibo Effect. (hehe!)
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Placebo

[photosynthesis]

this is one of my favorite weird word websites:
[url="http://phrontistery.info/favourite.html"]http://phrontistery.info/favourite.html[/url]

gymnosophy - contemplation performed in the nude.

hagiarchy - government by saints or holy people

agapetae - churchwomen who live with celibate men

auto-da-fe - the burning of a heretic

collegialism - theory that church is independent from the state

synergism - belief that human will and divine spirit cooperate in salvation

there was a period of time when I was 12 where I was addicted to William Safire's "On Language" columns and I wanted to be a lexicographer.

[photosynthesis]

[url="http://www.urbandictionary.com/"]http://www.urbandictionary.com/[/url] is another good site

[theculturewarrior]

[quote name='photosynthesis' date='Nov 18 2005, 02:56 PM']
there was a period of time when I was 12 where I was addicted to William Safire's "On Language" columns and I wanted to be a lexicographer.
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That's COOL!

I wanted to be a professor of Anglo-Saxon, like J.R.R. Tolkien. It never worked out for me though. My undergrad doesn't teach Latin or Greek, and its modern languages classes were pretty minimal when I was there.

[photosynthesis]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Nov 18 2005, 03:35 PM']That's COOL!

I wanted to be a professor of Anglo-Saxon, like J.R.R. Tolkien. It never worked out for me though. My undergrad doesn't teach Latin or Greek, and its modern languages classes were pretty minimal when I was there.
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I always wanted to take Latin...

When I started college I wanted to get a Ph.D in women's studies. Now I don't and I'm gery happy about that

[theculturewarrior]

Sometimes I wonder if there's anything I am capable of besides working at a reference desk. I'm pretty suited to this. (Just not the pay! )

[homeschoolmom]

When I sneeze, I say, "Achooey, oooey, oooey, chop suey."

[Guest T-Bone]

whilst

[photosynthesis]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Nov 18 2005, 05:35 PM']Sometimes I wonder if there's anything I am capable of besides working at a reference desk. I'm pretty suited to this. (Just not the pay! )
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You strike me as the kind of person that would make a nice TV weatherman. You could do voice-overs

Sometimes is there is anything I am capable of besides fixing other peoples' computers and writing long, boring pepers.

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Nov 18 2005, 06:00 PM']When I sneeze, I say, "Achooey, oooey, oooey, chop suey."
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that's silly.

when I sneeze, I make a high-pitched noise. and when my friend Shades sneezes, she sounds like a duck!!

[Guest T-Bone]

if she sneezes like a duck, she must be made of wood, and therefore,







































A WITCH!!!

[photosynthesis]

i don't know about that...

[Guest T-Bone]

You arguing with my logic?