Comments on: Grunion payday http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Lisa http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5849 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:19:05 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5849 #1 word of all words: SPONGE: just feels so good to say!

chiaroscuro

Schadenfreude

benediction

]]> By: beta http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5848 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:40:36 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5848 i like the german word as well: lurch!

]]> By: beta http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5847 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:59 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5847 dust bunny :-)

]]> By: Veranda http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5846 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:16:42 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5846 epiphany -all time favorite word
lascivious
smarmy

]]> By: Meagan http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5845 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:15:40 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5845 I learned a new one! I’m studying Italian so I’m finding new ones all the time…. Today’s word, “macellaio”, which means “butcher” (like the guy who sells you your steak, not the verb).

I’m digging these triple-vowel things we get in Italian. I can’t think of an instance where we have them in Spanish. It sounds cool. :)

]]> By: bauke http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5844 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:41:06 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5844 My fav. portuguese word:

“Cogumelos”

Means mushrooms, but it’s such a nice word…

]]> By: D http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5843 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:25:48 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5843 I know I won’t remember the best ones until spammers have locked down this thread but the ones I can think of immediately would be;

osmosis
fulcrum
machiavellian
linguistics

]]> By: Shekha http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5842 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:04:58 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5842 Hedonist
Pedagogue
Sensual
Urethra
Uninimous

Bonus: Ilham – It means inspiration in Malay and Arabic

I love reading your work.

Shekha

]]> By: Meagan http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5841 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:04:41 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5841 A couple more words that came up over the course of the day…

ambiguous

disambiguation (all over Wikipedia!)

tsunami

]]> By: adam http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5840 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:30:05 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5840 “guava” has to be one of the best words around.

one of my favourite obscure words, for both sound and actual meaning is callipygous.

]]> By: Jann http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5839 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:11:24 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5839 Three more; all starting with d:

~daresay (my grandmother used to say this)

~distrait

~disdain

]]> By: Meagan http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5838 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:28:10 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5838 I’ve got three languages to draw from (and a few pieces of some others) so I thought I’d limit myself to one word from each language in the instance of saving time.

English: harbinger

Spanish: correcaminos (roadrunner… like the little bird that’s always getting chased by the coyote. That was one of the first Spanish words I learned when I was about eight.)

Italian: controspionaggio (counter-espionage… “espionage” is a good one in English too. So is “sabotage”.)

]]> By: Oona http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5837 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:59:56 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5837 Somehow I’m not surprised by the high number of words based on Latin roots that pop up in those lists. I’ve always found that Latin sound wonderfully strange. Here just those that I’m sure of:

vacation
humus
mucus
anhedonia
obscure
congruent
variable
consumption
contingent
appropriate
extrapolate
tintinabulation
serenity
family
peace
inamorata

But I like classical Greek, too, even if there are only a few instances of it to be found here:

apocaplectic
onomatopoetic
anhedonia

(Of course its sometimes hard to say if something is derived from the Greek or the Latin version of a word, and I’m neither a classicist nor an etymologist)

]]> By: mig http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5836 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:57:36 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5836 kd: more on apocaplectic here: http://metamorphosism.com/archives/000030.html

jann: favorite words doubtless say more about ones psychology than lots of tests.

in german, i am partial to lots of austrian dialect expressions. schaasaugat (sp) for example (meaning “having poor eyesight”) or “Zniachtl”.

woodpile, nightmare, spider.
breakfast, backrub, loon.

]]> By: sue http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1671&cpage=1#comment-5835 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:54:22 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1671#comment-5835 peace
love
family
tintinabulation
harpsichord
serenity

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