Words and Language

Hi Dave. Lovely names! Are you feeling better?

WC, not to mention the secrecy, because the world wasnt ready for what they knew.

You mean pneumonia? Yes. All healed.
Thanks.

You have to take advantage of what you know early on.

Good! Welcome back.

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I like the word crochety. Love the sound of it and the origin possibilities crack me up (a person of much crotch)

I luv interesting sounding people names and the Greeks have good ones. I am constantly referring to my dictionarys (usually to add, edit or redline). 'in' and 'un' words give me angst as they are negative sounding and often do not have a positive form. 'ept' is a good word but wasn't in any of my dictionarys til I added it. I find monasterys spooky so I wouldn't want to live there. I would like to live in a castle with a turret though.

my kids were talking about 'homophones' the other day, and I tried to remember if I knew that word in second grade.

Some words drive me nuts.

blatherskite
dumbledore
flapdoodle
jabberwocky
snollygoster

oh schickenlady I like some of those! *grin* flapdoodle makes me think of pancakes (I have a one track mind) and jabberwocky, when do I get to use that??

I like Greek names too, having grown up in a Greek neighborhood. One kid in my class was Elefhterios Doudousakis.

Had a kid in HS named Haddi Sidaddi.

I remembered more favorite words: bombastic, nefarious and innuendo.

Hey Dave.

D'nut, good point about those words that have "un" or "less" in them, but there really isn't an opposite word for them. They can be fun, I think

For example, you can be inept, but can you be ept? You can be ruthless, but can you be ruth?

(Waiting for a joke about a woman named Ruth....)

Schickenlady, I think those are fun words!

Victor, I can't believe you remember how to spell that! Cool name!

I like those words too, Dee.

I was watching The Office and someone said something about disgruntled workers, and the guy said "we're completely gruntled."

I like ornery.

siren = an enticing, dangerous woman

I like august--used as an adjective meaning, inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic.

It's a luvly dahliful month too jadajoy! I am SO adding 'gruntled to my dictionary!

I like the phrase "Low hanging fruit". Discussion of crotchety made me think of it. :)

Speaking of fruit.

I am going to make a fruit cake, or
I am a fruit cake.

How does it change from one meaning to the other.

They both are a little nutty.

I like the un, in, less, words. I just have to tell you this story......

I used to work in a bank in the days before computers and there was a discrepancy in one of our customers accounts. She pitched a fit and wrote nasty letters to the head office and made quite a stink, naming names of my co-workers and threatening their jobs . The managers were falling over themselves to straighten out the problem and to make her happy.

When they finally got it together they brought her to my counter to close her account. When I saw her name and realized who she was I said "oh, this is the woman who wrote those letters". She looked very smug and said yes, with her nose in the air, "I guess I'm famous around here" I was insulted and said "More like infamous". Well, she went on her merry way a little deflated.

Then, my manager called me in the office and chewed me out. He said it had taken him all morning to appease this woman and get her to stop her campaign against the bank and I had undid all that, with three words. I wasnt sorry, I was proud.

Later, another manager came by, winked at me, and said "you done good".


The power of words is incredible.

Sounds like a close encounter with a weinerbrain to me.

Troublemaker!

I like parsimonious.

I like weinerbrain. :)

Jobbernowl

Are you making these up, Sherrie?!!

No - I watch a show every night and become enlighted.

www.billoreilly.com/g/Factor-Vocabulary/552.html

One of my favorite names is a former major league player - John Wockenfuss.

weinerbrain. Heh, heh. I like that one! Is that one in the dictionary? ;)

I went to school with a girl named Susan Wilterdink. She had a brother named Richard. Sitting here shaking my head. I would have my name changed in a second.

So they called him Dick Wilterdink?

Better than Richard Hertz.

Yes that is what they called him. I am scanning the yearbook right now - 1976

Groan. Victor, that's one of my DH's favorite lines/names/jokes. Must be a man thing...

Like Seymour Heiney.

'Weinerbrain' has been in my dictionary for a looooong time. My first encounter with a weinerbrain was in kindergarten which was a kinder surprise.