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Offline Ellemeno

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2008, 06:13:07 am »
I tend to like adverbs derived from adjectives, like relentlessly, endlessly, redoubtably...

inadvertently?

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2008, 09:36:56 am »
Exactly!  Adverbs add color and depth to the mundane.

Onamata-poetic :) word are my next favorite like 'babble' and 'bubble'.
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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2008, 08:38:22 pm »
Exactly!  Adverbs add color and depth to the mundane.

Onamata-poetic :) word are my next favorite like 'babble' and 'bubble'.

I like sizzle and woof and whack and rustle too!  :D
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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2008, 08:55:47 pm »
I like sizzle and woof and whack and rustle too!  :D

buzz, hiss, hush, freshet, swish, tintinnabulation...

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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2008, 09:26:31 am »
I like "There's a lid for every jar."  :D

For example, when someone shares an item of gossip with me, such as "Did you hear that Justin and Bamber have become foot fetishists?" my standard response is "There's a lid for every jar," delivered in a blasé monotone. I feel more cool  ;)  and in-control  ::) when saying "There's a lid for every jar," which I prefer to the alternative "Get outa here!"   ;D
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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2008, 09:36:01 am »
I like "There's a lid for every jar."  :D

For example, when someone shares an item of gossip with me, such as "Did you hear that Justin and Bamber have become foot fetishists?" my standard response is "There's a lid for every jar," delivered in a blasé monotone. I feel more cool  ;)  and in-control  ::) when saying "There's a lid for every jar," which I prefer to the alternative "Get outa here!"   ;D

Justin and Bamber are FOOT FETISHITS???? Get outa here!!








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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2008, 09:52:27 am »

Justin and Bamber are FOOT FETISHISTS???? Get outa here!!

 ;D :laugh: :laugh:


 :laugh: I like "Get outa here" too, even though I feel like I'm channeling Carson Kressley when I say it!  ;)   :laugh:


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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2008, 10:05:54 am »
Exactly!  Adverbs add color and depth to the mundane.

Onamata-poetic :) word are my next favorite like 'babble' and 'bubble'.

How about "squeak" or "squeal"?
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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #18 on: December 16, 2008, 11:29:48 am »
What I think is really interesting is the number of words that share just a couple of letters -- not whole root words -- but have similar meanings. For instance, words that start with GL have to do with light:

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

So do words with FL:

Flash, flicker, flare ...

Words with GR have to do with earth:

Ground, grave, grass, grow, aGRiculture ...

And so on. 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.



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Re: Expressions You Love!
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2008, 11:38:34 am »
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.
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