Language Games · 17 March 2008
Every woman is a poet when she is in love.
Plato said that. But I translated it if you knowatimean.
Wittgenstein said that. But I paraphrased it because this is no time for exactitude.
It is time for wordplay. I am thinking of tongue-twisters, limericks, haiku, acrostics, palindromes, alliterations and old favorite lines. Whatever words stick in the head.
At times I have kept lists of the words I love best, and as of today I am beginning again. I don't even know, what words do I love now...:
antediluvian, blithely, concord, daft
Hated words is more difficult, but for sure:
blowhard, dumpy, moist, secrete
The list will need to be organic to my life. It's more a know 'em when you see 'em kind of thing, for me. But it's good to start with a seed list.
What are the words you love or despise?
Later this week: acrostics, the six-word autobiography, I don't know what else.
Yoga not serious. Poetry serious.
Posted by (0v0)
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I like belated. And omelette.
Dislike privy.
Posted by: V · Mar 17, 11:19 AM · #
love: palimpsest
hate: panties
Posted by: knl · Mar 17, 11:52 AM · #
This is wonderfully fun. I also loathe the word moist.
I love serendipity.
Will come back with more when I’m done with my work that I also loathe, even more than moist.
Posted by: Anna · Mar 17, 11:53 AM · #
Gossamer, ingenue, sugarplum are good words.
I also HATE the word panties. Ugh.
Posted by: Anna · Mar 17, 12:52 PM · #
Nice!
I once knew a Mijanou who was an ingenue.
P******, like most diminuitives, is not ok with me. But, contra la regla, skivvies is ok.
Good words I ran across today:
valence
dreck
mercurial
desultory
panache
zeitgeist
meta
nary
zen
bellweather
tarmac
laminate
crack (adjective)
field
forecaster
onslaught
“trace elements”
Ugly or annoying words that have ocurred to me:
smear
ho
“tipping point”
eco-
skanky
ganja
okay? (interjection)
“perfect storm”
speculum
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 17, 02:22 PM · #
like:
Urdvha
dislike:
Kukkutasana
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 17, 02:32 PM · #
like:
transmogrify
effulgent
evanescent
iconoclast
aum
soma
dislike:
petulant
persnickety
duhkha
I sense a pattern here (two more of my favorites: sense, pattern) that rather than the sounds or mellifluous tones or onomatopoietic aspects I am predisposed to the meanings.
Posted by: e&sj · Mar 17, 03:14 PM · #
The meaning cannot be skimmed off for me either. Otherwise duhkha might not be so distasteful. :)
Soma was a heavy metal band out of Billings, Montana, 15 years ago. My first mosh pit. And other firsts. Lots of soma-appropriate associations there.
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 17, 05:44 PM · #
Poetry not serious either. Serious not even serious – not if it’s good serious.
Anti-serious! :)
Posted by: Katie · Mar 18, 09:42 AM · #
Soma is also the name of a pretty killer Smashing Pumpkins track. Accumulates a bit like Bolero (but then, since Zeppelin, what hard rock tune doesn’t?).
Posted by: patrick · Mar 18, 11:24 AM · #
atrium
plangent
magniloquent
laconic
surreptitious
sculpture garden
ham-handed?
burnish
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 18, 04:49 PM · #
hi (0v0) wow, this is tough, coming up with a good answer in 450 seconds or less.
words i love
cookies, structure, pillow, teacher, carrot
words i don’t like
cataclysm, scatological, mold, fuzzy, dormant
back to words i like
cheers,
arturo
Posted by: arturo · Mar 18, 06:59 PM · #
I also love structure and cookies. And, admittedly, The Smashing Pumpkins.
But no fuzzy? Arturo! Fuzzy is great!
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 18, 07:52 PM · #
Ocelot.
Goose-egg! (Meaning “zero,” the way my mom says it.)
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 19, 04:33 AM · #
Most Horrible English Words
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 25, 12:50 PM · #