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Offline Wayne

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2008, 01:04:22 pm »
I like to imagine that those little word fragments date back to caveman days. Like maybe back then they grunted "GLLL" when they saw a light, or "GRRRR" to indicate the ground.
:D  Oooooh, I love this SC !! I will ponder on that image a while ... :D
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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #21 on: December 16, 2008, 09:12:00 pm »
Funny! Y'all remind me of Annie Proulx. I remember reading about how she loved the word bishop, because it sounded like slip and shlep, (or something like that) and she liked to imagine a tipsy bishop running through the woods.

Annie must have been tipsy herself to think the word bishop sounded similar to slip and schlep.

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2008, 06:27:58 am »
I love letters, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, all of them.

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #23 on: December 20, 2008, 11:26:53 am »
For instance, words that start with GL have to do with light:

Glow, glisten, glimmer, glass, glare, glint ...

... glitter ...

I was thinking about this last night, and wondering if the GL rule also applies to some other words that aren't explicitly about light, but could have originally derived their meaning from "lit up" or "glowing":

Glamor, glory, glad ...


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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #24 on: December 24, 2008, 06:56:32 pm »
I love letters, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, all of them.

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I very much enjoy the words diphthong and anathema.  Simply for existing in our language.  :)

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #25 on: January 04, 2009, 02:45:09 pm »
I saw one today that was interesting: "cognitive dysplasia," which supposedly means the feeling when you're about to leave the house that you've forgotten something and won't remember it until you're on the highway.

I'm not crazy about the term itself, but what a useful concept! That happens to me all the time.


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« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2009, 07:34:00 am »
I like 'go figure' and 'you and me both'. The latter sounds wrong to me linguistically or syntax-wise, but apparently it's not.

And ever since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' I like the swear word 'bugger!'...  ;D I think it's cute.

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #27 on: January 07, 2009, 07:37:06 am »
I saw one today that was interesting: "cognitive dysplasia," which supposedly means the feeling when you're about to leave the house that you've forgotten something and won't remember it until you're on the highway.

I'm not crazy about the term itself, but what a useful concept! That happens to me all the time.



Me too. I usually forget my phone--and if I'm not too far away when I remember, I go back and get it!  :P 8)
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