You know what I want (besides a pony and my two front teeth)? I want to see the number of people who have a word on their list. So instead of clicking on the word to see how popular it is, I want to see it the list, just like I can see the number of words a user has on their lists. Because, really, I care more about the words than I do about the people.
I love that the first recorded use of this word (1620) is the act of defenestration that was a precursor to the 30-years war. It's nearly four hundred years old, and yet it sounds like somebody made it up last year.
Everytime I read the word "apposite" I have to look it up. I even know what it means, but I lose faith in my own memory and look it up. Because, you know, "that word: I do not think it means what you think it means."
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windsor commented on the user john
You know what I want (besides a pony and my two front teeth)? I want to see the number of people who have a word on their list. So instead of clicking on the word to see how popular it is, I want to see it the list, just like I can see the number of words a user has on their lists. Because, really, I care more about the words than I do about the people.
December 6, 2006
windsor commented on the word defenestration
I love that the first recorded use of this word (1620) is the act of defenestration that was a precursor to the 30-years war. It's nearly four hundred years old, and yet it sounds like somebody made it up last year.
December 6, 2006
windsor commented on the list words-that-do-not-mean-what-i-thought-they-meant
Everytime I read the word "apposite" I have to look it up. I even know what it means, but I lose faith in my own memory and look it up. Because, you know, "that word: I do not think it means what you think it means."
December 6, 2006
windsor commented on the word concupiscent
I actually love the adjectival form, as when used by WS in Measure for Measure, "concupiscible intemperate lust."
Wait: is that adjectival? Isn't it already an adjective? Then what's concupiscible?
December 6, 2006