tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40566711445969906402024-03-23T11:24:46.818-07:00The Word-NerdsThe riveting and not-so-riveting ruminations of several loquacious vocabulary afficionados.love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-30746913488391262352008-05-12T18:17:00.000-07:002008-05-12T18:20:31.617-07:00<blockquote>Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?</blockquote><br /><br /> <blockquote> -GKC</blockquote><br /><br /><br />I found this at <a href="http://www.quoteland.com/">Quoteland</a>, a site (new to me) that promises to be helpful and hilarious!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-65590587670722483052008-02-14T17:51:00.000-08:002008-02-14T17:55:43.882-08:00This Word is Really Fun to SayHonorificalibitundinitatibus<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />By the way I learned this word from Dr. Thursday's Talk at the Chesterton Confrence last year.themapguyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715692963846282269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-56335841614104543772007-12-07T09:31:00.000-08:002007-12-07T09:32:06.501-08:00Free RiceAmeliorate your vocabulary, donate rice to the poor, <a href="http://freerice.com/">check it out</a>.Riahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384657033530822368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-11498822852360695822007-11-03T15:43:00.000-07:002007-11-03T15:44:42.632-07:00I Am Exceedingly Amused by This...(especially given the small amount of information actually included in this blog)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="cash advance" src="http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/genius.jpg" /></a> <p> </p>love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-23826331149152706232007-11-03T15:40:00.000-07:002007-11-03T15:42:38.139-07:00A Basic Chaucer GlossaryI thought some of you (that is, anyone who might ever happen upon this blog) might enjoy this <a href="http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/glossary.html">link</a>.love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-51848030869657467032007-05-02T09:11:00.000-07:002007-05-02T09:37:31.402-07:00Laugh at yourself<blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>"Again, Mr. Micawber had a relish in this formal piling up of words, which, however ludicrously displayed in his case, was, I must say, not at all peculiar to him. I have observed it, in the course of my life, in numbers of men. It seems to be a general rule. In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle. We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannize over them too; we are fond of having a large, superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the the meaning of our liveries on state occasions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words."<br /> ~<span style="font-style: italic;">David Copperfield</span>, Dickens<br /></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-51301035572957069762007-04-24T18:19:00.001-07:002007-04-24T18:19:50.770-07:00For the Word Nerds, from Dr. ThursdayWhat are the "control" words - the words of command - by which one <br />tells<br />a HORSE what to do?<br /><br />From "general knowledge" one usually comes to know that<br />Giddyap means "get moving" (= get thee up)<br />and<br />Whoa means "stop"<br />but are there others, like, turn left, or right, or backup, etc???<br /><br />If this seems too easy - what are these words in other languages? (In<br />particular I would be curious about their Latin and Greek equivalents.)love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-82488515570165393992007-03-28T09:41:00.000-07:002007-03-28T09:45:29.675-07:00Ohhh, JuicyI already posted this on C. P., but I had to bring it over here too, as it will delight the multiloquent soul. <span><span style="font-family: Courier,sans-serif;"><pre><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">The sycophantic Fox and the gullible Raven<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">By Guy Wetmore Carryl<br /></span></span><br />A raven sat upon a tree,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> And not a word he spoke, for</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">His beak contained a piece of Brie.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Or, maybe it was Roquefort.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">We'll make it any kind you please --</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">At all events it was a cheese.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Beneath the tree's umbrageous limb</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A hungry fox sat smiling;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">He saw the raven watching him,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> And spoke in words beguiling:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">"J'admire," said he, "ton beau plumage!"</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">(The which was simply persiflage.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Two things there are, no doubt you know,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> To which a fox is used:</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">A rooster that is bound to crow,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A crow that's bound to roost;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">And whichsoever he espies</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">He tells the most unblushing lies.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Sweet fowl," he said, "I understand</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> You're more than merely natty;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I hear you sing to beat the band</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> And Adelina Patti.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pray render with your liquid tongue</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">A bit from Gotterdammerung."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This subtle speech was aimed to please</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The crow, and it succeeded;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">He thought no bird in all the trees</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Could sing as well as he did.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">In flattery completely doused,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">He gave the "Jewel Song" from Faust.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">But gravitation's law, of course,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As Isaac Newton showed it,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Exerted on the cheese its force,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> And elsewhere soon bestowed it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">In fact, there is no need to tell</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">What happened when to earth it fell.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I blush to add that when the bird</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Took in the situation</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">He said one brief, emphatic word,</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Unfit for publication.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fox was greatly startled, but</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">He only sighed and answered, "Tut."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Moral is: A fox is bound</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> To be a shameless sinner.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">And also: When the cheese comes round</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> You know it's after dinner.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">But (what is only known to few)</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fox is after dinner, too.</span></blockquote></pre></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-84351077516090441622007-03-19T13:08:00.000-07:002007-03-19T13:09:57.178-07:00Some Words that Came up in Latin Class Last Weeknascent<br /><br />coalesced<br /><br />fasces<br /><br />internecinelove2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-40587719079231464242007-03-03T18:05:00.000-08:002007-03-03T18:07:03.559-08:00A European Geography TangentI'm reading a book about a priest who helped the starving peoples of Europe after World War II. I got a little distracted with the numerous place names I was unfamiliar with. Here's the list from just one page, plus a few that came up in my digging through an atlas to find them. See if you can find where these are...<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Bukowina</span> (or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Bucovina</span>)<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Bessarabia</span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Bachka</span> (I have to admit I haven't found this one yet)\<br />Silesia<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Ermland</span> (haven't found this one either)<br />Pomerania<br />Sudetenland<br />Potsdam<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Galicia</span><br />Carpathian Mountains<br /><br />Have fun!love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-41636095162018389942007-02-28T08:40:00.000-08:002007-02-28T08:41:59.154-08:00Some European Peoples and PlacesKind of a random list - I'm cleaning out old notebooks today...<br /><br />Breton<br />Andalusia<br />Sudetenland<br />Magyar<br />Versailles<br />Salzburg<br />Chartres<br />Mont St. Michel<br />Rhine<br />Rhone<br />Alps<br />Pyrenees<br />Apennineslove2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-2595691526235361262007-02-27T08:08:00.000-08:002007-02-27T08:17:44.896-08:00An Odd Word that Keeps Coming Up: PalimpsestI first came across this word just a few weeks ago while watching <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/">a PBS NOVA program on an old Archimedes text</a> discovered hidden under a medieval prayer book (talk about recycling!).<br /><br />According to <a href="http://www.dictionary.com">dictionary.com</a> it means...<br /><br /><blockquote>a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.<br />[Origin: 1655–65; derived from the Latin <em>palimpséstus</em>, derived from the Greek <em>palímpséstos</em> rubbed again (pálin again + pséstós scraped, rubbed, verbid of psân to rub smooth)]<br /></blockquote><br />Fr. Ronald Knox uses it in a sermon on the Holy Eucharist in which he discusses the Canticle of Canticles...<br /><br /><blockquote>And that book, as we all know, is a kind of palimpsest, in which the saints of every age have read between the lines, and found there the appropriate language in which to express their love for God, God's love for them. (from "The Window in the Wall", found in <em>Pastoral and Occasional Sermons</em>, Ignatius Press).</blockquote>love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-12521799461613487592007-02-17T11:19:00.000-08:002007-02-17T11:21:31.523-08:00A Word ChallengeHello All,<br /><br />Dr. Thursday thought you might be able to help him with this word challenge and asked me to pass it along to you. Gilbertgirl? Margaret? Anyone? :)<br /><br /><blockquote>Category: biology. I am seeking a general or class-word which means<br />"seasonal change", which might include words like "hibernate" and<br />"estivate", or things like "deciduous trees"; there are some animals<br />which change color or fur-thickness, etc depending on the season. Is<br />there such a word, and if so, what is it? If there isn't, suggest one<br />from the classical sources (Greek/Latin).</blockquote>love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-19660629689346527372007-02-17T06:49:00.000-08:002007-02-17T06:51:40.842-08:00Another favorite word...<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/echolocation">echolocation</a>love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-46153045364079640322007-02-14T07:23:00.000-08:002007-02-14T07:27:03.751-08:00More Greek Theology WordsWe learned these three words in Fr. Mateo's <em>Refuting the Attack on Mary</em>. They are used to formally define the difference in honor/veneration given to God and to the Saints. That such terms exist for these definitions might be helpful in explaining Catholic belief to those who think that Catholics worship Mary and the Saints...<br /><br /><strong><em>latria</em></strong> - Adoration - supreme worship given to God alone.<br /><br /><strong><em>dulia - </em></strong>veneration and invocation (quite simply - asking them to pray for you!) offered to saints and angels<br /><br /><strong><em>hyperdulia</em></strong> - special category for Our Lady - the highest veneration and invocation offered to a created beinglove2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-92196721149451700982007-01-31T18:13:00.000-08:002007-01-31T18:19:58.739-08:00More Greek Words(Well, at least I they're mostly Greek to me. - heehee)<br /><br />I just happened upon these in the glossary in the back of <span style="font-style: italic;">the Catechism of the Catholic Church</span>...<br /><br />acedia<br /><br />anamnesis<br /><br />anaphora<br /><br />ascesis<br /><br />catechesis<br /><br />eschatology<br /><br />iconoclasm<br /><br />mystagogy<br /><br />parousialove2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-46248052518819169582007-01-30T07:44:00.000-08:002007-01-30T07:45:59.047-08:00One of Those Tricky QuizzesYou all might enjoy <a href="http://www.mikescomputerinfo.com/inteltest.htm">this</a>.<br /><br />hat-tip <a href="http://patentsgirl.blogspot.com/index.html">Minnesota Mom</a>love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-81124658590838848762007-01-30T06:13:00.000-08:002007-01-30T07:13:51.623-08:00A Few Words from the Latin ConventionThe Wisconsin Junior Classical League Latin Convention, which Ria, Gilbertgirl and I attended was a highly concentrated weekend filled with Latin fun and academics. They're pretty efficient with their time and volunteers - 450 students and perhaps 25 or 30 adults, so everyone stays busy most of the time.<br /><br />I had certamen score-keeping duty one afternoon. I was a little nervous about this since I had never even seen a certamen machine before and I was assigned to the advanced level room, but everything went very well. They had three adults running each room - one to read the questions (and judge the answers), one to run the machine and one to keep score. That way no one was overwhelmed with too many pieces of the puzzle.<br /><br />It was delightful to meet so many young Latin enthusiasts and visit with them between rounds. I found that the experience inspired me to want to go back and read and study more. <br /><br />One thing that amazed me was some of the terminology relating to the Latin language that I never knew existed. I thought that would be an appropriate piece to share here (aided by the fact that they gave all the teachers a packet with all of the certamen questions from this year's event). So here goes...<br /><br />anaphora - The repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses.<br /><br />hyperbaton - The violation of the usual order of words.<br /><br />prosopopoeia - "Personification is also referred to as..."<br /><br />protasis - The term for the clause which contains the condition in a Latin conditional sentence.<br /><br />apodosis - The term for the clause containing the conclusion.love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-12941813786430248272007-01-22T17:06:00.000-08:002007-01-28T19:11:15.793-08:00Tea-hee!!!<span style="font-size:85%;">Love2learn Mom just took Ria and me shopping for supplies for the Latin Convention we are going to. We were browsing for an instant Chai tea, and we came across one brand that seemed about what we wanted. Upon my examination, however, I discovered a passage across the back that ran something like this:<br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">"...Slip a packet in your pocket and experience enlightenment. Add ice and transcend reality."</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">We guffawed for at least five minutes. The sad thing is, some people who read that might actually be quite impressed.<br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-23858362252890506862007-01-21T18:55:00.000-08:002007-01-30T07:43:21.702-08:00My Vocabulary EvaluationSo true!!! I can't wait to continue ameliorating my vocabulary!!!<br /><div class="Section2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table width="350" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bg align="center" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span style="'color:black;font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><b>Your Vocabulary Score: B</b></span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><center><img src="http://images.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/vocab.jpg" height="100" width="100" /></center><span style="color:#000000;"><br />You have a zealous love for the English language, and many find your vocabulary edifying.<br />Don't fret that you didn't get every word right, your vocabulary can be easily ameliorated!</span></td></tr></table><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/">How's Your Vocabulary?</a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-80230312944688809192007-01-21T13:12:00.000-08:002007-01-21T13:18:11.626-08:00My vocabulary quiz score is....<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="350" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="middle" bg style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blackfont-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;" ><b>Your Vocabulary Score: B-</b></span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#dddddd"><center><img height="100" src="http://images.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/vocab.jpg" width="100" /></center><span style="color:#000000;"><br />You have a zealous love for the English language, and many find your vocabulary edifying.<br />Don't fret that you didn't get every word right, your vocabulary can be easily ameliorated!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/">How's Your Vocabulary?</a></div>Riahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384657033530822368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-35355599131173445312007-01-21T13:00:00.000-08:002007-01-21T13:01:01.948-08:00Vocabulary Quiz!<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="350"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bg style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;" ><b>Your Vocabulary Score: A-</b></span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#dddddd"><center><img src="http://images.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/vocab.jpg" height="100" width="100" /></center><span style="color:#000000;"><br />Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!<br />You must be quite an erudite person.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/">How's Your Vocabulary?</a></div>love2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-42278833268439091172007-01-15T16:33:00.000-08:002007-01-16T10:21:00.374-08:00Salutations!!<span style="font-size:85%;">I am ever ecstatic to share my passion for the English Language in any possible way. I was absolutely jubilant when I received the invitation. Accumulating an effusive vocabulary has been a pet pastime of mine for the last seven or so years. We had just begun homeschooling and the book Mama was reading to Margaret and me at bedtime was <span style="font-style: italic;">Anne of Green Gables</span>. We made tedious progress through the first chapter, me interrupting every ten seconds, in need of the explanations of such trivialities as <span style="font-style: italic;">decorum, conscious, auxiliary, gauntlet</span>, et al. Margaret put into words what I had not the vocabulary to express, "this is pathetic!". I resolved, thereon out, to acquire the means of communicating something other than "um, like, ya know, yeah!". This addicted me to the beauty, charm, and stateliness of words, and I have not been able to leave off since.<br /><br />For me, words needn't be extravagant, obscure, or challenging to ensnare my interest. They do require a particular ring, and they have to flatter their context so precisely that it's difficult to select favorites. However, one that provides full rhythm and resonance even when extracted from its paragraph is <span style="font-style: italic;">platitudinous. </span>I'll have to meditate for a while and conjure up some more of that variety. Such words are delicious just to roll around in your mouth and savor.<br />I am profoundly loquacious, I believe, everywhere except on blogs. I never seem to remember to pour out my multiloquous meanderings into posts.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-26618466125670316782007-01-08T16:46:00.000-08:002007-01-08T17:20:17.792-08:00Electroblogster at Your ServiceHello! Nee How Ma! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">Irashymassay</span>!<br /><br />Now they did it! They invited <em>me.</em> I guess that's OK. I like words. And (looking at our motto up there at the top of the page) I can sure be not-so-riveting. I can ruminate. But to be called loquacious - well - <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">hmmm</span>. I can spend long, long <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">stretches</span> saying nothing. Vocabulary is a must. A wide vocabulary is a delight. I will probably enjoy reading postings on here from others in this group more often than posting myself. Yet I <em>was</em> invited :)<br /><br />A few words that stick with me are the ones I have heard from people who seem to have spent a lot of effort pronouncing them - sometimes the most simple words too. I like the way Alan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">Rickman</span> (Col. Brandon) says "In the best sense" in <em>Sense and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Sensibility</span></em>. I like the way Kathryn Hepburn says "Hello you" in <em><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Philadelphia</span> Story</em>. And sometimes the more exotic words too like the way the word <em><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">lugubrious</span> </em>is said in <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">Brideshead</span> Revisited</em> by Nikolas Grace (Anthony Blanche).<br /><br />Sometimes it's just the way a person with a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">repertoire</span> can extract from his lexicon the exact words that are needed. Cf. the exceedingly precise St. Thomas Aquinas. And the wit of Oscar Wilde. And P.G. Wodehouse who drops words like the seeds of flowers that pop out later in the story in a blossom of laughter. Of the master of masters Mr. Shakespeare himself - a man so comfortable with words that he coined them, redefined them, stretched them and sent our <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">thoughts</span> out of this lowly orb to conceptions celestial on a simple turn of phrase.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">Yah</span>. I think I am going to like this!<br /><br />BTW. Love2<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">Learn mom</span> has put a link over there in the sidebar to my favorite word nerd show - "<a href="http://www.kpbs.org/words/">A Way with Words</a>" on NPR. Listen some time. They have fun on that show.electroblogsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08018619379070348697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-50290494817622401832007-01-08T13:58:00.000-08:002007-01-08T12:01:08.844-08:00These Are A Few of My Favorite WordsHi, I'm Ria, another word fanatic. Below are some of my favorite words, many are taken from the movie <a href="http://akeelahandthebee.com/">Akeelah and the Bee</a>, which has a great number of long words.<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia:</strong> the fear of long words. <strong>plakkopytrixophylisperambulantiobatrix:</strong> (Ok, Ok this is not really in the dictionary but isn't it a cool word?) It's the name of a poem by Chesterton.<br /><br />Those are the longest I know, now for the <em>slightly</em> less impressive....<br /><strong><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prestidigitation">prestidigitation</a></strong><br /><strong><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/catastasis">catastasis</a></strong><br /><strong><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bioluminescent">bioluminescent</a></strong><br /><strong><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ratatouille">ratatouille</a></strong><br /><strong><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/staphylococci">staphylococci</a></strong><br /><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/logorrhea"><strong>logorrhea</strong></a> I like the wordy definitions:<br />1. pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.<br />2. incessant or compulsive talkativeness; <em>wearisome volubility</em>.<br /><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=synecdoche"><strong>synecdoche</strong></a><br /><br />That's all for now, but I look forward to much more posting. This should be fun!Riahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384657033530822368noreply@blogger.com1