Post the words you love and hate>favorite:NoctilucentFeldgrauCraquelurePavonine>least favorite:SellswordGroupFarthingBoondoggle
why does everyone always name obscure polysyllables as their favourite words? i refuse to believe those sounds evoke anything to you. have you no love for the english language?a few words i like, off the top of my head:mildswarmdazeheftpiercelopetoilflitkeenwhirlplungelull
>>25276808For me personally:ZwodderYepsenQuomodocunquizeRecrementUltroneousBlatteroonEgroteNidifugousTyrotoxismZenzizenzizenzicSpanghewTitivilZopissaCrambazzleTwichild
>>25276831I forgot to mention: scopperloit
>>25276830I like noctilucent because I like the idea of things shining at night. I like seeing cityscapes lit up at night. I like feldgrau because it reminds me of home. I grew up in an area that was made of lush green forests and gray rainy skies. Green and Gray basically made up my childhood. I like craquelure because it sounds nice and because the little cracks on pots look nice. Also because you can use the word to describe marks on skin (the skin on the backs of your hands), canyon floor textures, paint chip textures, etc.I like pavonine because I like animal adjectives. Pavonine is just more versatile. You can use it to describe human behavior, colors, patterns, etc.I dont like sellsword because I hate verb-noun compound words. Is there a word for verb-noun compound words? Sellsword, turncoat, scofflaw. All sound like bullshit fantasyslop and DNDmidwits use to sound smart.I don't like group because it reminds me of the taste and texture of beans, and I hate eating beans. I dont like farthing because I hate Britain I dont like boondoggle because it sounds gay
>>25276847didnt read cat tranny
>>25276830>why does everyone always name obscure polysyllables as their favourite words?Not *everyone* does. But lots do, for reasons which should be pretty obvious.I think most words can be good in the right place. Very few are appreciably better or worse in themselves.A couple I like, for the combination of sound and sense:— PIGLINGThis is basically a synonym for "piglet". It used to be fairly common, but "piglet" has more-or-less taken over. "Pigling" is in Saki and in Agatha Christie, both from early 20th Century. I like the sound better than "piglet".— PUFTALOONA puffy sort of tea-cake or bun. Not sure they really make them any more.I dislike all the obvious candidates. Things like— HOMOPHOBIAfor example, which is a propagandistic term designed to suggest that dislike of homosexuality is a phobia, i.e. exaggerated and irrational. Ranting about this sort of thing is tiresome, though. People either agree or disagree and you aren’t going to change anyone's mind.There are many words which set off one's internal alarm because they are almost always used poorly, although they are not in themselves bad. Things like— UTILIZEfor example. Nine times out of ten when someone on /lit/ says "utilize", he means "use", but thinks three syllables are more impressive than one. But "utilize" does have a perfectly respectable function. You just don't need it that often.There are lots of annoying clunky ugly words made by bolting other words together or turning one part of speech into another. For example— INCENTIVIZEwhich pretentious ignorant people use instead of "encourage" or "foster" or "stimulate" or whatever. These are similar to the previous but worse, because they have no legitimate justification. Of course if anyone ever uses— DISINCENTIVIZEin cold blood you know right away he's not someone you need bother listening to any more.Purists used to condemn mongrel words, such as— TELEVISIONwhich is half-Latin and half-Greek. I'm not sure they're so bad. For example,— SPEEDOMETERis half Old English and half Greek. Is that really worse than— TACHOMETERwhich is the pure-Greek equivalent?Does it matter how different the two halves are? For example, is— ALCOHOLISMreally so terrible? It's an Arabic root and a Greek suffix, which is fairly serious miscegenation. But I don't mind it.
>>25276958Actually "pigling" isn't quite a synonym for "piglet" because a "pigling" could be a young pig OR a small pig. So maybe there's still a place for it. Maybe we should use "pigling" for a small pig and "piglet" for a young pig.
>>25276864>why'd you do thisI explain why I did this>I don't care why you did thisThe stupidity of the nigger baffles me to no end
>>25276831Use them all in one sentence that makes sense
>>25278205Fine.The crambazzle, who had ultroneously chosen to egrote through the morning, blaming a bout of tyrotoxism when in truth he had drunk a full yepsen of the zopissa-laced remedy the blatteroon thrust upon him while quomodocunquizing among the merchants, lay too deep in a zwodder to notice the scopperloit outside, where the twichild was spanghewing a toad over the nidifugous chicks, or to hear the blatteroon, returned from among the merchants with the titivil at his shoulder gathering up the recrement of his idle words, declare that the zenzizenzizenzic of his paltry earnings would be enough to retire upon.
>>25276808I like the way macabre is spelled but i hate its pronunciation.
>>25278401https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFPmx96nnA
The word "slough" makes my skin crawl
>>25276808Words I like:RaptLiltAdumbratedPerusingLanguorousBridleDemureSullenCloyingThralldomSprynessBemazedCharnallyCrenulatedPoiseBrocadeAuburnFlutter and probeEbbAbettedOvertonesLecherousSuffusionGouacheMythopoeicCovetHapless
