I Love Words!!
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (168478)
Boise, Idaho
January 21, 2011 8:32pm CST
I love words. I love the english language with bits of this and that thrown in. As a writer I know there is a word for every certain situation. I have certain words I like, think are interesting, both in their definition and pronunciation. Such as serendipity and conundrum, and oxie moron and even epiphany. I like hononyms, antonyms and synonyms too! If you don't know the meanings of these go to www.dictionary.com and check them all out. Now my question to you is do you have a favorite word or group of words? Please share them with us.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Jan 11
hi celticeagle yes I also love words and I am also a writer albeit an unpublished one. Albeit is one of my favorites and serendipity
and scion and exacerbate which I can never really pronounce correctly'
also infinity as it has a ring making you think of looking from one side
of the hprizon to the other and farther and farther away. also ultimately just for the sound of them and discombobulated too and often make my characters use some of them. I love to play scrabble and usually I wind up winning
too.
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@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jan 11
Wow! You too huh? I like discombobulated too. Infinity is nice. Exacerbate always does just that to me. I used to play alot of scrabble but haven't for many years. Wish we could get together for a game. I can never find anyone interested.
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@GardenGerty (160998)
• United States
22 Jan 11
Exacerbate sounds like a scar or a wound to me. When I was younger my peers did not like the fact that I knew so many words.
@lexirose7350 (459)
• Philippines
22 Jan 11
I also write. I have an online writing job. And yes my favorite word is also serendipity. I also like surreal. these are words rarely used.
@isabelwakeford (57)
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23 Jan 11
Dear All and Celtic
I agree with everyone and can't think of particular words, but used to have great fun getting my students to pick out all the dramatic 'nonce-words' (eg. 'unkinged' in Shakespeare's, RICHARD II), that they could find...and like 'Hunt the thimble', they were occupied for at least an hour.
Such words are coined anew for any occasion and discarded, never to appear again. How better to describe the act of abdication and the self-removal of your crown? You pass it to your successor? It appears to be a voluntary act of abdication; an act where Richard 'unkings' himself. A king wears a crown; whoever wears the crown is king...and it is no longer Richad, it is Bolingbroke.
Another 'un' favourite of mine is Lady Macbeth's plea to any evil spirit in her vicinity to, 'Unsex me' here. Her wish is granted of course and she becomes an evil '4th witch'.
Dickens too plays with words ...uses strings of compound-adjectives to animate the inanimate..and the list goes on; as Lexirose and yourself observe, the SURREAL is what we all admire and each writer has his smoke and mirrors; the hard part is to be original.Namaste.
@GardenGerty (160998)
• United States
22 Jan 11
The sound of words is what makes poetry. I think one of my favorites that comes easily to mind is tintinnabulation. Oh, and onomatopoeia which is what tintinnabulation is.LOL Yes, it seems that the bigger a word is with syllables the more fun it is to say and hear. My children often said of our family that we "Play with our words" and I think it is true. My kids were a joy to raise because they also love language.
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@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jan 11
When my mother was alive we had that incommon. Her being gone now I really miss it. My husband was that way in the beginning. Short lived though.
@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Feb 11
I remember playing with that on a website one time. I like the eschew part of it. Works something like this" “eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation,” “avoid ambiguity, adopt clarity.” If I say it enough maybe I will remember it.
@Nadinest1 (2016)
• Canada
22 Jan 11
You say that you love words....and that dictionary.com is a help. You should use this site more often.
I love words too....and grammar.
'Oxie moron' is NOT spelled right.
It is spelled 'oxymoron'.
Check it out.
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@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Jan 11
Oh, ghee thanks. I happen to like oxie moron. I thought it was wrong when I wrote it but liked it that way. Thanks.
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
4 Feb 11
Many times when I go around walking, I try to absorb the many scenes I see, the sounds I hear, the smell that penetrates my nostrils, I try to describe them in words, but most often, my vocabulary is limited. I couldn't find words apt enough for the world around me. So I let them be and simply enjoy my walk. But there is a prayer that comes to mind whenever I am enjoying my walk... I utter Glory to the Father, glory to the sun, glory to the Spirit, glory on the world He made it, glory up above, glory, glory everybody, we have seen the Father's love.
@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
5 Feb 11
You can also write what you see, feel and etc. in a journal.
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@Manisingh81 (2)
• India
5 Jan 16
According to me words describe your standard..they describe your emotions too
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