What is your favorite word and why?
quagmire
IDK why, it's just great.
@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.
@Auspice
lol
@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.
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.
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.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@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.
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.
@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
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.
@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.
@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.
P.S.
Ether.
@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.
@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.
Sanguine - it means both optimistic and bloody, which allows for some fun wordplay, as the do with the daedric prince Sanguine in Elder Scrolls.
@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.
