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I would like to see Kilt incorporate a script to do this from a database, but being a non-coder, I have no idea if I'm asking for a huge task or not.

Anyway, for now (but not for very long), I'll come up with a Word of the Day to help with my own, and hopefully other's, vocabularies.



I doubt I can teach Brad or Kilt anything though.


Ok, first one:

mordacious

\Mor*da"cious\, a. [L. mordax, -acis, fr. mordere, morsum, to bite. See Morsel.]

Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.

-- Mor*da\"cious*ly, adv.

Hey, MK, you're slacking! I'm awaiting your next mellifluous term...

You don't really expect to witness a proverbially perspicacious purse being made from a perniciously pedantic porcine ear, do you ?

If so, best to pray to tempus to fugit as expeditiously as possible.

Or maybe after the first post, he's begun suffering sesquipedalophobia or some such related malady...

Either that, or perhaps deep down he's a nervous nescient, and he engages in public sesquipedalianism in order to obfuscate that from the hoi polloi.

Aye, a fugacious venture gone exanimate, another of MK's numerous desipient divagations. At least it did not end in defenestration...

/me nods sagely while ordering a fresh pair of libational sour mashes to share with his polyglotic paisano.

Degustibusnon disputandum

This is fun!

Dudes, this thread just slipped too far down I guess.

Kilt, the "messages since you were here last" function isn't working properly.

Ok, since aunflin said it, I'll use it. Besides, it is one of my favorite words.

defenestrate - the throw out of a window

MK: You missed the point that Aunflin and I were indirectly alluding to by example - it's not enough to merely define the WOTD ... you have to creatively demonstrate it's proper use.

I also feel like a 5 year old teaching a physicist quantum mechanics.

If you stick with "Cat's Cradle", I'm sure you'll have no trouble keeping the rapt attention of most Superstring Theoretical Physicists.



http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall03/005858.htm

Seriously, this is all in good fun. Don't let Aunflin's secret thesaurus addiction frighten you

heh, yeah, if that wasn't creatively demonstrate[ing] it's proper use for that first word i don't know what would be.

So, what's your WOTD Bob ?

I have relatively little doubt that your didactic tithe to the discussion shall be blessed with a surfeit of verisimilitude.

Brad_H wrote:If you stick with "Cat's Cradle", I'm sure you'll have no trouble keeping the rapt attention of most Superstring Theoretical Physicists.

Ouch!

I asservate a perspicuous discussion on this topic (the more etymons the better!), though not in great nimiety. And please do not objurgate me! This may lead to a plethoric oniomania for Thesauri, Dictionaries, and assorted Vocabulary Books.

And here's a doozy of a word: floccinaucinihilipilification.

What's this one mean?

Aunflin wrote:And here's a doozy of a word: floccinaucinihilipilification.

What's this one mean?

Is that worth a Sherlock?
(I could be mean and say that it is something that BKM does, but I think he cleared that up recently. )

P.S. As a bit of trivia: this was the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, but not in the second edition.

self cleansing?

I think it's worth a Sherlock, jweb.

Aunflin wrote:I think it's worth a Sherlock, jweb.

Yay!

floccinaucinihilipilification
Noun.
The action or habit of judging something to be worthless.

floccinaucinihilipilificate
Verb.
To judge a thing to be valueless.

Example:
jweb is saddened by BKM's floccinaucinihilipilification of his own opinion.

/jweb waiting impatiently for his shiny, new Sherlock.

/Aunflin polishes the Sherlock 'til it shines, and slides it 'cross to jweb.

Perhaps my favorite word ever:

fustigate

my favourite word would have to be.... contumacious but you all probably know what it means i feel like a two year old compared to you guys so i'm gonna go read the dictionary...

Ah, this is becoming a very didactic thread...