Vocabularical goodsomeness
Friday January 6, 2006 – 2:47 pmA few words I’ve looked up recently: soporiphic; aphorism; lubricious; splenetic; fulsome; mien
Words I already knew, but wanted to hear the official definition and/or spelling: livable vs liveable; it’s vs its; apostrophe; hyperbole*; itinerant; prerogative; perquisite; respite; treatise; ostensibly
* When I tagged along with Sheila and Sarah to visit Gary in the hospital, we were joking with him about his hyperbaric chamber treatments, replacing the word "hyperbaric" with "hyperbolic". It was pretty funny in a very gallows-humor kinda way.
January 6th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
was listening to a commentator on the BBC World Service use "frisson" in the course of a story on an underground shopping mall in Montreal. definition? not really sure…
January 6th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Napoleon Dynamite: "GOD!! IDIOT!!" ;-)
define:frisson
"define:" is my very best friend on the internet. Barring that, m-w.com.
January 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am
P.S. fwiw I didn’t know it either. Hee hee… be glad I didn’t give you the ol’ "just fucking google it, man!!" That site is funny as hell but dude, I wouldn’t have the nerve to give out that URL in real life, not without a huge huge winky-sign.
January 7th, 2006 at 1:05 am
Oh, I have… when you do it at just the right time, it’s priceless…
Yes, I am an asshole, but I admit it, so it’s all good.
January 10th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
I’ve (I HAVE) always enjoyed saying in my mind "IT IS" for ‘it’s’= i know this isn’t (IS NOT) an exhaustive grammer lesson on ‘it’s’, but it helps me a bit