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Favorite Word

Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:12 am

The title basically says it all: What's your most favorite word? If it's a kinda odd word, give the definition too.

Mine is "discombobulate", which is defined as "to throw into confusion". I've used that word so many times in my Newspaper class that I'm banned from saying it. xD

Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:40 am

Huh...My favorite word in any language ever is probably tamashii, which is Japanese for soul. It makes me think of home, since Tamashii Kasanete (Souls Overlap) is normally the first song I listen to when I get home from school, and there's this one fantastic bit of the refrain in Muge....The way Paku-sama sings it just sends shivers down my spine.

In English? Defensestrate. Look it up :)

Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:56 am

Best word of all time is 'sakura', Japanese for 'cherry blossom'. Very whispy, airy feeling. Nice to say. Nice to hear. Feels like Spring is on the way when sakura are mentioned. Makes a great name too. In my writing, a pirate captain/extortionist/general sociopath is a small girl named Sakura. (PS: this would have been funner to post if pink was color choice :P )

Best 'English' word either: 'physics', quantum mechanics' or 'Star Wars'. All words have special meaning to me. I love them all so much.

Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:32 am

Amethyst wrote:In English? Defensestrate. Look it up :)


Ah yes, defenestrate. We have this ongoing joke in Newspaper about defenestrating people, and what's weird is in French today we played this game with words on cards, and I got 'une fenetre', which is window in French (I think that's where it came from).

Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:38 am

Superfluous

Defenestrate

Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:48 am

My current favorite word is Armistice.
Because that marks the end of my Wolrd War One course.

Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:10 am

Divine, prelude, and fluctuate are among some of my favourite words (I have a list of them on my MSN space XD).

Oh, and Fimbulvetr. (I forget what language this is, but it refers to the three-year long winter that precedes the end of the world... or something like that. I have no idea xD)

Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:14 am

Divine wrote:Oh, and Fimbulvetr. (I forget what language this is, but it refers to the three-year long winter that precedes the end of the world... or something like that. I have no idea xD)


According to Urban Dictionary it's "The Winters of Winters and it is prelude to Ragnarok,which in Norse mythology is the Apocalypse."

So yeah, you were basically right. :P

Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:27 am

Cellardoor. No definition.

Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:22 am

Currently, mine is "apocalypse" :P Though I also like "lackadaisical" ^^;

Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:31 am

In Welsh my favourite sounding words are 'corach' and 'crempog'. Corach means dwarf, and a crempog is a pancake.
Not sure about English - there are so many to chose rrom :P

Words I hate: Phlegm ... eww

Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:12 pm

I love the words Nexus and Crux. Very hard and challenging; yet displaying a unique perfection :P

Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:05 pm

I think right now, it would have to be hindsight. Which means "perception of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred" or "the rear sight of a firearm".

In another language, I guess I'm like Sky, Sakura. :)

Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:31 pm

Dragonfire wrote:
Amethyst wrote:In English? Defensestrate. Look it up :)


Ah yes, defenestrate. We have this ongoing joke in Newspaper about defenestrating people, and what's weird is in French today we played this game with words on cards, and I got 'une fenetre', which is window in French (I think that's where it came from).


Latin, actually. Fenestra means window.

Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:52 pm

Cack.
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