Favorite Words
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What is your favorite word and why?
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quagmire
IDK why, it's just great.
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@Kanye-Qwest said in Favorite Words:
quagmire
IDK why, it's just great.
it has great cadence. Just the shape of the sounds are good.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice
lol
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@Kanye-Qwest said in Favorite Words:
@Auspice
lol
It's 100% why I like ersatz as a word. It's just fun to say.
But my favorite word is (not surprising anyone) auspice. I like the sound of it. I like the letter makeup of it. I like the definition. It was 'favorite word' before I'd ever played WoD.
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Moist.
In second place, damp.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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- defenestration
- teledildonics
In both cases, because: '...there's a word for, specifically, that?'
Fuck surely deserves an honorable mention.
I liked synergy until it became a buzzword, at which point it skipped over to the hate/wince column.
Oh fucking well.
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Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice As someone who has attempted suicide a number of times and still has suicidal ideation regularly, I can't get behind that one, sorry.
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Pleonasm.
Anamnesis.
Deliquesce. -
Cacophony.
Why? The hard Cs mostly. I did Attic Greek at uni so I love words I can break down the etymology of.
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@Ganymede said in Favorite Words:
Moist.
In second place, damp.
where is the downvote button?! i don't mind the word moist but this is just clearly trolling
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Eldritch.
Shiv.
Sliver.
Saccade."Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin said in Favorite Words:
Eldritch
Along with eldritch, I like ephemeral. The two fit together for me somehow.
I also love words with 'ae.'
Aegis.
Aesthetic.
Vitae.
Aether.
Jaeger.Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice said in Favorite Words:
@Coin said in Favorite Words:
Eldritch
Along with eldritch, I like ephemeral. The two fit together for me somehow.
I also love words with 'ae.'
Aegis.
Aesthetic.
Vitae.
Aether.
Jaeger.I like ephemeral but I hate how they used it in nWoD/CofD.
It feels like someone wanted to say ethereal, got it confused with ephemeral, and no one else said anything.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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P.S.
Ether.
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@Coin said in Favorite Words:
I like ephemeral but I hate how they used it in nWoD/CofD.
It feels like someone wanted to say ethereal, got it confused with ephemeral, and no one else said anything.I mean. Their use of 'Auspice' is also weird. I get it ('born under the auspices of...') but I also don't get it because it feels so arbitrary.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice said in Favorite Words:
@Coin said in Favorite Words:
I like ephemeral but I hate how they used it in nWoD/CofD.
It feels like someone wanted to say ethereal, got it confused with ephemeral, and no one else said anything.I mean. Their use of 'Auspice' is also weird. I get it ('born under the auspices of...') but I also don't get it because it feels so arbitrary.
Ephemeral literally means "transitory or short-lived". Spirits/Ghosts are... not... that. In fact, they are pretty permanent unless something goes and actively eats/destroys them, which is difficult without very specific tools they literally used a word that means the opposite of the thing.
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Sanguine - it means both optimistic and bloody, which allows for some fun wordplay, as the do with the daedric prince Sanguine in Elder Scrolls.
