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CunningLinguist, in my line of work the need to use the word exacerbate was exacerbated because something was always becoming exacerbated in or on someone. But, every time I used the word I felt like I was spitting on the other person.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 9, 2005 at 2:41 PM
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Cunning, discombobulated is one of Max's FAVORITE words!
posted by
muser
on October 9, 2005 at 1:32 AM
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I'm with you on the use of the word "whom"... I just can't bring myself to
use it, unless I'm saying "to whom it may concern." I believe that is the ONLY time in my life I've used it.
posted by
-blackcat
on October 8, 2005 at 10:38 AM
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CunningLinguist,
I wouldn't use a word I'm unsure about. A guy shouldn't use the word "willyoumarryme" if he's not in his full senses. Just a poor joke. :)
A.
posted by
A-and-B
on October 8, 2005 at 6:15 AM
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CunningL...
The fun of blogging is using words without looking them up, although I usually look down my nose at them when I am patronizing the dictionary. See, I didn't look up
although, although I think I usually know what it means.
posted by
food4thought
on October 7, 2005 at 9:54 PM
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Cunning
I love words so very much....I made an A-Z list of just the first word that I love that came to mind for each letter.....Antithesis, Bodacious, Chartreuse, Discombobulated, Emaciated, Frenetic, Heralded, Inconsequential,Juxtaposition, Kumquat, Luminaries, Metamorphasis, Luminaries, Nascent, Opalescent, Plethora, Redundant, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Torrid, Utter, Voracious, Winsome, Xanadu, zygomatic...these aren't hard words...just words I like to say.
posted by
Krisles
on October 7, 2005 at 9:39 PM
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That makes me think about the word that I find gross, that isn't "dirty." And of course I can't remember what it is now!
posted by
Holy_Grail
on October 7, 2005 at 3:02 PM
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HELL YES
I don’t have a problem with him taking three, four days, but I do have a problem
With those mother fuckers who had something to say, as we didn’t know from the
Way he handled 9/11; in the next devastation he would be late; really I just think we
needed a way to sustain our ability to complain, and place the blame anywhere
Else but on ourselves
posted by
fourfive
on October 7, 2005 at 2:30 PM
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UVULA, is not female parts, either...
And you'd be surprised to see just how many people think that it IS!!! LOL! ~LB~ xo
posted by
Anony_Miss
on October 7, 2005 at 2:17 PM
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Mysteria
now I know where you get it from. "We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the dream..." let's keep making it up as we go. :-)
posted by
CunningLinguist
on October 7, 2005 at 1:15 PM
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Cunninglinguist
My mom invented the word "Star-vi-cating" to empasize when she is REALLY hungry...I like original words. That one is good!
LotsaLove...
posted by
mysteria
on October 7, 2005 at 1:05 PM
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Jojo
They're good for nothing. ;-)
posted by
CunningLinguist
on October 7, 2005 at 10:02 AM
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Ha ha!
Big brothers are good for things like that I hear.
posted by
jojostar
on October 7, 2005 at 9:56 AM
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Jojo
Grassy-ass. My older brothers used to make fun of me when I was little and used big words. This is why I have these issues, I'm sure. Three big brothers with three little vocabularies.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on October 7, 2005 at 9:50 AM
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Hey you pulled it off, good job
you've got me hooked on discombobulated now. There's a word that we use to make fun of at work all the time after hearing someone say it at a meeting and for the life of me I can't remember what it was. It's driving me nuts now.
posted by
jojostar
on October 7, 2005 at 9:47 AM
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Military_Wife
My father has an extremely limited vocabulary, and he runs into this problem way more than I do because he thinks some common words are too snobby. I swear, I'm having such trouble coming up with an example... I feel like him!
posted by
CunningLinguist
on October 7, 2005 at 9:35 AM
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LOL! I have this conversation everytime I talk to my husband's ex
One day she was complaining about the house being trashed right after she cleaned, I told her "You have 3 kids there, delegate the chores." Her response "I don't know what that means?" mind you this is the same woman who thinks Michigan has TWO Governors.
posted by
Bel_
on October 7, 2005 at 9:31 AM
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