flak (Usage: I copped a lot of flak for that mistake.)
Polemarch (closely followed by navarch)
non-diegetic
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
Multiplicative (used often in math and science) Teetotalitarianism (adamently deciding not to consume alcohol) Tintinnabulation (ringing of bells) Circumambulate (to wander around in deep reflection) Queueing (5 vowels in a row!)
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
-North -Genuflect -Borborygami -Evidence-based -Grace
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
fubar is the only "backronym" I know. The word is an adaptation of the German "furchtbar", meaning terrible or abominable which was picked up by US soldiers during WW II. The common acronym (F___ up beyond all recognition) was derived later.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
sesquipedalian: because its so self referential
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Horripilation Defenestration Confluence 'fighter-fighter' (how my son pronounces firefighter) Teppo Numminen! (Thomas's favorite Sabre-guy)
Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
Indubitably Constantinople fuego! wakasASHI! (say this really fast) Gurgle.
Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
Hosed Ouagadougou (my favorite city ever in principle) snafu (inspired by fubar) slackselence sesquicentennial
Posted by Nikisknight (Member # 8918) on :
Honey It's Dinnertime
(Shoot, I think I only have 3 at the moment.)
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
Fustigate belongs on ANY list of "best words in the english language."
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
I spent a few days awake contemplating this. I had an easy time writing the first two (got em done the first day), but the last three took some cogitation.
Tell me what you think.
1) Elanguescence 2) weltanschauung 3) oh snap 4) -boob -weewee 5) poo
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
ricochet squeedunk Alka-Seltzer Llama Necktie
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
1.)bourgeois (I love the way it sounds) 2.)Kampfe (German for fight) 3.)Altariel (Yes, my username is pretty) 4.)Eruve Nandiriel (Where is she?) 5.)Chadwick (I just love that name)
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
paradox nichevo Titus trebuchet caterwaul
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
chthonic muffle silhouette chuaidheadh Tuktoyaktuk
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by Euripides: -lah
You play a lot of Gunbound, don't you?
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
My son is sound asleep.
You did say at the moment, did you not?
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
quote:Originally posted by Euripides: -lah
You play a lot of Gunbound, don't you?
Actually, I've never heard of it.
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
Shan
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
My 5 just changed. Now they are:
Considerably
Oh
James
Vesper
Bond
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shan: My son is sound asleep.
Yup, that about sums it up for me too Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
quote:Teetotalitarianism (adamently deciding not to consume alcohol) Tintinnabulation (ringing of bells)
Teetertotalitarianism -- Authoritarian rule of the playground. Rintintinnabulation -- Pavlov's method.
quote:Defenestration
Digital Defenestration -- Installing Linux.
/sorry
--j_k
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
supererogatory insouciance leet mu (Japanese, meaning "neither yes nor no; your question is flawed") germaine
[ March 09, 2007, 09:48 PM: Message edited by: Will B ]
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Five most favourite words:
aetiological alcohol frak smite naturally
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by Euripides:
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
quote:Originally posted by Euripides: -lah
You play a lot of Gunbound, don't you?
Actually, I've never heard of it.
It's an international online video game that's ENORMOUSLY popular in southeast Asia. The "lah" suffix is very prevalent in the slang of the gamers who play it, and it's the only place I've ever heard it used. My mistake!
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
arrogate ineluctable blandishments dude yaw
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
quote:Originally posted by Will B:
mu (Japanese, meaning "neither yes nor no; your question is flawed")
Just saying, but you know that's a Zen usage that never really pops up in normal conversation, right? It's a word most often used as a prefix roughly equivalent to 'non-' or 'without'.
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
It's an international online video game that's ENORMOUSLY popular in southeast Asia. The "lah" suffix is very prevalent in the slang of the gamers who play it, and it's the only place I've ever heard it used. My mistake!
No problem - it's no doubt because so many of its players are from Singapore or Malaysia.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
erosomniac: My brother plays Gunbound, he installed it on my computer but I have not tried it. He learned about it in Japan.
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