Words!!

I love words. I love writing, reading, speaking and learning words. My favorite word is slice. What a sexy word. Slice. "Would you like a slice?" "OUCH! I sliced my foot open!" Yes. I love that word. Anyone else have a word that they love so much it's almost disgusting?

Incidentally...

It's all in the way you say it. I like that word :)

Holy crap. What an awesome word. Superfluous.

I have many favorite words.

I tend to like onomatopoeic words in general. Or words that don't get used enough. They must feel neglected. :)

I'd concur. That's why I liked gooooooooooooviiiieeee instantly ;-)

:) :) :)

um.....care.......ell......with the title of the forum, are you, like, earwormed with micky dolenz now?????

or am i the only freak?� ;P

now i am. thanks. :P

sure.� anytime.� *grin*

I just learned that one :)

avuncular
sophomoric
defenestration

hehe. Oh I love defenestrate. If I'm not completely wrong it was one of m-w's words of the day some time back...

Have you heard? His ex-gf defenestrated all his stuff!

W00t.

along the same lines...

I take pride in thinking that I am undefenestratable...

:D

There is an Arthur C. Clark short story, The defenestration of Ermintrude Inch It is where I learned the word. It can be found in the collection Tales from the White Hart.

somehow it just sounds so clean and british.

Because it sounds fun, its meaning is fun, and it has all 5 vowels in alphabetical order (all 6 if you use facetiously).
:)

.oO Words are better when they're written down
They fall to the page with no sound
And if you let them sit awhile,
give them time and distance Oo.

And I love the 2 German words Fernweh and Wanderlust (there are no exact matches in English IMO)

And now I have Paul McCartney's Wanderlust stuck in my head. :)

aaah now there's some words i like: Paul McCartney, Beatles, George Harrison, etc etc :D

Fernweh ... I'm thining it means 'lointain' in French, but I'm not certain...

in high school we had a list of our favorite words, and words we made up.

pulchritudinous was always on our list of favorite words.

the phrase "eschew obfuscation" is always a fun one too :D

side note: once, a non-english-as-a-first-language co-worker said, in reply to pulchritudinous, "What? Poke-her-cuteness?" :D

Sesquipedalian: "having many syllables"

Onomatopoeic, and used in a Jim Infantino song ;-)

Sesquidpedalian literally means "a foot and a half."

ped = foot
sesqui = and a half.

The only other word I've seen wotj the sesqui prefix is "sesquicentennial," the 150th anniversary.

wotj

best.� typo.� ever.

I was obviously writing in Polish
wotj = with

my favourites:

embargo
ombudsman
uncountable
dervish
diaspora
tousled

Kumquat, i always liked the sound of that quat at the end.
Copious.

miasma
plethora
anglophile

Would you say I had a....plethora...of pinatas?

yes, El Guapo...

and speaking of that movie....

BUTTERCUP!

Blubber... macadamia... gazebo!

Not neccasarily my favorite word but a right good one and another german word that has no partner in the english language. Roughly translated it means: Feeling good about something bad happening to somebody else

Do you mean Schadenfreude? Yeah, it is a neat word. There's a lovely hiliarious song about it in the Avenue Q musical.

and a fantastic Chicago-based comedy troupe of that name.

Schadenfreude

Thats the one. It's just been a while since I have had to recal my german spellings

& the rest of the humourous moods: bilious, jaundiced.... um, i always forget the saliva one that means, like, wise?

& bellicose because it sounds like those. & jingoistic because it goes with bellicose.

or any of the "words" featured therein

Why the quotes?
Most of the new words in the poem are combinations of previous words, which is part of the natural evolution of language anyways (just a lot quicker).

Ah, but a lot of them have not become accepted into the language, so while they may still be words (and have even, in fact, been translated into other languages including French and German), I think it makes sense to distinguish between them and uncommon-but-recognizeable English words. Maybe?

yeah, what you said.

But how many people need to know a word for it to count? You could place it in with more rare slang (which might be the best place for it) though.

I didn't know the words themselves had been translated. Does anyone have a non-english copy out there? I'm curious.

I do have a couple, somewhere, that were handouts in a linguistics class...I'll see if I can a) dig them up or b) find out where they came from.

Also, I don't think there's a rule about how many people need to know/use a word for it to count, but especially with deliberately-coined (and particularly non-compound) words like the ones in the Jabberwocky, it just feels like they'd need to create a pretty obvious following in order to not always be considered something some guy made up to sound cool. I see your point, but... I dunno. And, I think the difference with slang is that you can identify a group that uses (or used) particular slang words - is there some region or dialect that uses the words from the Jabberwocky? Of course, even with slang you get people arguing that that's not a real word, so maybe we'd be having the same discussion anyway. ;)

I think I'm rambling.

Roleplayers :-)

Has anyone ever been in a D&D game without at least one word from Jabberwocky used frequently?

And, hey, I don't mind the rambling. I always like the language arguments around here :-)

I like:

Phantasmagoric
Pilfer
concipiscient
formication [not forNication]
and Snog... Snog is a great word.

and any other words I can find that are subliminally dirty.

And I love Susan Werner for using it in a song

.oO Yes I'm waitin' at the station with my old friend sublimation Oo.

Now you've got me earwormed with Time Between Trains ;)

"Edit"

It was formed backwards. Once upon a time, there was the word "Editor", which while being a stand-alone word, sounded like "Edit" with the "er" suffix (like "fighter" or "worker"). So people thought that an Editor is one who edits.
This is even better, becasue "Edit" is a pretty useful verb (and noun).

Cool. :)

Its not that great of a word but its sad how much I love "wicked." Its just a great word (or adjective/adverb if you will) to describe so many things...wicked pissa, wicked awesome, wicked hot, wickedly stupid, wickedly insane...so many wonderful wicked phrases!

oh I forgot that one: Mutterkuchen (that literally translates to mother cake) for placenta �;-D

it's an icelandic multi purpose word. My old tutor told me a really funny story about it, but i think it was all in the telling!

as for english, i like soporific meaning inducing sleep.

and golly

Oooh, I do like golly.� Golly! and wowzers! remind me of my friend Casey.

putrescence

Gooood word.