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Favorite Words?
Dom:
Do any of you have favorite words, or at least words you think are interesting?
I'm partial to these:
dual - it's a fancy way of saying "two"! And it's better than "bi". (...I'm not bisexual, I'm dualsexual!...sorry, random thought.)
hex - it's not as taboo as sex, it's not as bitter as an ex, it's not as southern as tex or mex, and it has nothing to do with Superman. And it's fun to say.
I'm also a fan of "defenestration" (the act of throwing something or someone out a window), but I'd be surprised if I ever manage to use it in conversation.
neminem:
Defenestration has always pissed me off - if you parse it, it should really mean, "to remove one's window"!
On that note, I've always been a fan of words whose etymologies are amusing and obvious to those in the know - words like, say, antediluvian. Literally - before the flood. I.e. really freaking ancient.
Also always enjoy new slang, especially when it fits a niche that previously lacked any sufficient word. For instance, from the world of cs-hackery, words like "hack" (in the original, MIT sense, that is), or "munge", or "frob", or for that matter, "foo" and "bar". Especially when such slang also has amusing etymology - for instance, it's common at my school to refer to anything particularly nasty with the nounal form, "nast". You can have, therefore, things "made out of nast", or "looking like nast", or etc. I've even heard phrases like "liquid nast". And of course, there's a shelf in our dorm that always collects dust and never gets cleaned, so it's been named "the nast shelf". :D
Dom:
New slang! Forgot about that category. :) Foobar/fubar is a good one too.
I'm fond of "frex" myself. "For example" is just too darn long. "Frex" is to the point...and it has that x at the end, which I like. :D
James:
über is my current favourite word, I have changed it slightly to überly as it rolls of the tongue better in my opinion. 'That is über good.' or 'That is überly good.'
Mickey Finn:
--- Quote from: Dom on June 29, 2006, 12:12:07 AM ---
I'm also a fan of "defenestration" (the act of throwing something or someone out a window), but I'd be surprised if I ever manage to use it in conversation.
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Hastur manages to use it quite often. Usually in reference to computers.
I tend to use "penguin" as a place holder in conversation.
"Can you hand me that um...."
"Penguin?"
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