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Originally posted by Balderdasha View PostAlso, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which is the fear of long words. Whoever named that disorder must have been a real arse mustn't he?
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Originally posted by Diable Rouge View PostSesquipedalian - because brevity is preferable as a rule, as such NS can figure out the definition through opposites.
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In that instance, you're not so much 'misled' as completely in the dark.
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Obfuscation
If you don't know what the above word means, then that is a very good definition of it, because it means to deliberately mislead.
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Another Baader-Meinhof moment for me. I had to look up comorbidity the other day. I thought it meant something like 'increasingly likely to lead to death', but the actual meaning 'presence of one or more conditions in addition to your primary condition' is less scary.
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Originally posted by Furtho View PostThere's also a noun, rhoticity.
Abugida is another one from the field of linguistics I like to throw in occasionally - "a writing system which is between syllabic and alphabetic scripts" i.e. each glyph represents a consonant and a vowel paired.
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Another word I learned via OTF is rhotic: "Relating to or denoting a dialect or variety of English (e.g. in most of the US and south-western England) in which r is pronounced before a consonant (as in "hard") and at the ends of words (as in "far")". There's also a noun, rhoticity.
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Speaking of petrichor, is there an equivalent word for how vibrant colours look when the Sun comes out after the rain?
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I have a crossover with an ear worm, in that I learned the word jejune in an English seminar about the same time I 1st heard Spandau Ballet’s “To Cut a Long Story Short” and it rhymes with the 1st line’s ‘lune/lagoon’ and has stayed there ever since.
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Someone was being a show off and asked if anyone knew what Quartodecimenism is. And I did, thanks to my normally useless Bachelor of Divinity (Hons)
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Originally posted by Giggler View Post
Is it not the opposite? The smell of the ground when it rains following a dry spell?
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Originally posted by Eggchaser View PostMoiety.
/ˈmɔɪɪti/
noun
FORMAL•TECHNICAL- each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided.
"the tax was to be delivered in two moieties"- ANTHROPOLOGY
each of two social or ritual groups into which a people is divided, especially among Australian Aborigines and some North American Indians. - a part or portion, especially a lesser share.
- ANTHROPOLOGY
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- each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostMrs. S gets pissed off if I use words like these; she says I'm being an intellectual snob. I left school at sixteen.
Even though they don't really qualify for this thread, I enjoy using suboptimal, oxymoron, tautology and counterintuitive.
Snake's wrong by the way - it's pronounced 'bailiwick'.
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I've come up with a foolproof fundraising scheme.
Fines for all messaging narrative memes
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In college days, I went out with a girl who used that word all the bloody time. Like we needed reminding that we hadn't any money.
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